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Who you should vote for

By Rich Johnson on Published: September 29, 2008 at 10:51 am

Well it has been a while since my last post only because I have been super busy working here at Cleversafe and enjoying the challenge provided to me every day. Many of you think I have died and gone to proprietary heaven, but that isn’t true! I get to maintain and develop for a Linux distribution at work, and no it isn’t Ubuntu (unfortunately). Besides working I have recently quit smoking (again!), got a new car, looking at a new house, and riding my bike like crazy.

I haven’t given up on this community at all! I am still trying to fit in my MOTU Council duties and trying to get back into developing Kubuntu, definitely next iteration. If you have missed me and want to see me in person I will be at Ohio Linux Fest next week, and then FOSSCamp and UDS in December. In between there I will be doing multiple centuries and cross state rides in the US on my bicycle, so come out and ride along with me!

VOTE FOR PEDRO!

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Docunification

By Rich Johnson on Published: August 23, 2008 at 1:36 pm

As a member of both the Ubuntu Documentation Project and the KDE Documentation Project, one thing is clear, our current state of system help isn’t the greatest. An initiative that the GNOME project has looked at taking on (for the greater part of the past 3 years) is called Project Mallard. There are some things in this project that I like and dislike, however one thing is clear, they understand the inefficiency of their current system and know it needs to be fixed. KDE is realizing this same exact thing and know we need to fix it, but figuring out how to do so correctly, isn’t the easiest thing.

One thing that GNOME, KDE, and others have worked hard to do is collaborate with Freedesktop.org specifications on many levels. Maybe it is time we look at continuing this excellence, but this time add documentation to the menu. How many of you GNOME users love using Amarok or another KDE application, but hate the fact that KHelpCenter is installed just so you can view the help documentation? Granted a lot of this has been fixed by just recommending KHelpCenter in the packages, but this doesn’t fix the issue, because now you have a .docbook file to read, and guess what, Yelp isn’t going to open it cleanly for you, or at least the last time I looked at Yelp it didn’t. Or you have KDE and want to open up the .xml file with KHelpCenter, but it just doesn’t work correctly. I think if we were to unify documentation we could move toward the goal of world domination 🙂

Would working closely together help fix our issues, would this be a good thing? What would be the “best” way to move forward?

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BarCamp Chicago Style Going On Right Now!

By Rich Johnson on Published: August 16, 2008 at 1:17 pm

RIGHT NOW! Ya Jono, that was my Sammy Hagar reference there, the one you made fun of as you sung Hammer Time with Captain Morgan at some little pub in Michigan a few months back.

Anyways, I am sitting here at BarCamp Chicago listening to a really groovy talk on Erlang. The air show is going on right now over the lake and I really want to be there watching it too. Jeesh what a weekend in Chicago. If you want to stop by here at BarCamp go right ahead. We have plenty of food and drink and everything is FREE!

If you want to follow along a bit, you can keep an eye out on my new identi.ca account where I go by nothing other than ‘nixternal’ 🙂

Hope to see some of you here at BarCamp! Have a great weekend!

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