After a successful experience at the Zeitgeist Hackfest 2009 at Bolzano, we decided on short notice that another hackfest is needed. The hackfest this year will focus alot on remaining blueprints of the Zeitgeist engine but even more on deploying Zeitgeist in GNOME via plugins and integration with GNOME Shell.
The hackfest is more or …
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Sandmonkey has been released and he is home safe. I talked to him and he will be up tweeting and blogging soon I hope.
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Egypt’s most courageous blogger (and my personal friend) has been moving from one friend’s apartment to another, as supporters of Hosni Mubarak pursue him and other democracy demonstrators. He was arrested on …
A very dear friend of mine who would like to remain anonymous took the following pictures of signs and posters of protesters, during the Revolution on the 25th an 28th of January against the Egyptian NDP regime.
Please help me translate as much as possible of them…
I found this collection of pictures of women in Egypt protesting against the regime on Facebook collected by Leil-Zahra Mortada.
For everyone who has been asking where the women of Egypt are! I´m trying to compile all the photos with Egyptian women in them.
A homage to all those women out there fighting, and whose voices and faces …
The Mubarak regime has let loose thugs and inmates in Cairo to create mayhem to justify the violence to come against peaceful demonstrators. The regime aims to burn down the country and show the world Egyptian youth as barbarian and need to be stopped by force. While all those peaceful demonstrators did for the …
BEHOLD THE MIGHTY SMILING COW
Internet & cell phone networks have been blocked in Egypt. Facebook, twitter, SMS & BBM were already banned. An entire nation is being isolated! Word needs to get out to the international community so that the state cannot commit violence against protesters without anyone watching. Protect Egypt’s protesters by getting word out any way …
GNOME Activity Journal 0.6.0 is out! Stefano Candori rocked the release and GNOME Activity Journal is packed with fixes and awesome stuff like…
- Added drag and drop support to the three views
- Added drag and drop support to the bookmark/pin area
- Improved items preview adding information tooltip.
- Added tooltip for peeking quickly into categories.
- …
It has been a very bumpy road for Zeitgeist with GNOME. I really don’t feel like going into details and history since this won’t help us proceed. I admit my part of the problem.
While I might not be the best developer around I do try to bring something new to the table and I …
Its been a while since I posted about my work on Shell + Zeitgeist
Well my last implementation was pretty much a proof of concept and since Shell did not support async searching I had to load all the Zeitgeist stuff on Shell startup. It was a HACK.
With the help of “magcius”‘s async work and …
