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Growing up and expanding 3

Apr

2013

tl:dr version: We’re hiring! For the past year or so I’ve been working with Mirko, Sebastian and Karl together at Agile Workers UG. In this time things have gone really well. From the beginning we had plans to grow the company and now we’re there. Mirko and I have both had experiences working in software ...

Berlin Open Source Meetup – Indian style!

Apr

2013

This Sunday there’s another exciting installment of the Berlin Open Source Meetup. We’ve had a few of this at this point but this one will easily be the best. We’ve reserved the back room of Naan. Naan is an Indian restaurant located close to Mauerpark with good and affordable food and cocktails as well as ...

Time for another Berlin Open Source Meetup

Sep

2012

A couple weeks ago I rather quietly created the Google+ event page for the 2nd Berlin Open Source Meetup and added those who’d been invited, or invited themselves, to the last one to the invitation list. Here are the details: Location: Prater beer garden Date: Sunday September 30th Time: 19h till whenever Head over to ...

One Berlin Open Source Meetup down, …more to come? 1

Aug

2012

We had a great turn out last night for the 1st Berlin Open Source Meetup. I counted 30 people at one point but I suspect there were a couple folks fetching more beer, so it’s safe to say we had just over 30 people attend. There were, of course, a number of the usual suspects. ...

Impressions from GUADEC 2012 1

Aug

2012

Well, I’ve been back from the 2012 edition of GUADEC for a few days now. Below are some impressions I took away from a week of talks, drinks, beach and friends. As was often commented on during the conference, the GUADEC organizing team did a great job with the organization of the conference. I can’t ...

Berlin Open Source Meetup 2

Aug

2012

Berlin has a large and active open source community and it’s about time we all get together for some beers. So while chatting at GUADEC, Lennart and I decided we should organize such an event. The extent of our organization has been to choose a time (Aug 19th @ 7pm), a place (Prater), and create ...

I’m going to GUADEC 2012 2

Jul

2012

Thanks to the generous travel sponsorship from the GNOME Foundation, I’ll be attending this year’s GUADEC in A Coruña, Spain. This will be my 3rd GUADEC and my first trip to Galicia. I’ve been head down in a couple interesting endeavors for the last few months and am looking forward to having a good chunk ...

LinuxTag 2012

May

2012

LinuxTag starts tomorrow in my beautiful adopted home of Berlin. This will be my 4th LinuxTag, my first being in 2003 when it was still in Karlsruhe. Looking forward to seeing old and new faces. I’ll be moderating a few sessions and, from tomorrow to Friday, manning the GNOME booth along with Muelli and a ...

Cluttermm now under new management

Mar

2012

I’ve not really found the time or motivation to work on Cluttermm and friends since this summer. Thus, I’m happy that I’ve found someone to pass on maintanership to. Actually, I’ve found two maintainers to take over. Krzesimir Nowak has worked on improving the C++-bindings in GNOME for some time know. He’s very familiar with ...

Expat tips: Tunneling Traffic with ‘ssh -D’ 10

Feb

2012

I’ve been living outside the US for over a quarter of my life now. With this comes some minor annoyances. One annoyance is that certain Internet sites work ‘better’ when connecting from the US. Luckily we can easily make it look like we are connecting from a US location with the help of the following. ...