If you’re interested in upcoming meetings and events from Open Source Geospatial Foundation, you can now bookmark Foundation Calendar page on the OSGeo Wiki
Yesterday, Jody Garnett did make those events available through iCalendar file from Google, so you can subscribe it using your favourite iCalendar reader, e.g. Mozilla Sunbird.
A few days ago I moved from GNOME to smaller and faster desktop environment called Xfce. GNOME is still my favourite desktop but it runs quite slowly even on new laptop with AMD64 Turion CPU and 512 MB of RAM. So, as a GTK+ based UI fan, I found Xfce a very good replacement OF GNOME – a tiny GNOME. Usually, I prefer to be able to check newest features of software I use, so I decided to use development version of Xfce, available in the Xfce Subversion repository.
Yesterday, I wrote a small utility to control updating and building private sandboxes of Xfce modules. This is a small script I called xfce-svn-builder.sh. It can be used to do first checkout of Xfce sources. After all required modules are downloaded, the builder script can run all targets – update – clean – configure – build – install – with just a single command.
The complete story together with usage instructions and download link can be found in the Scripts section, on the xfce-svn-builder dedicated page.
…I’m going to talk big about myself a little…
Yesterday, Paul Ramsey from Refractions Research gave me developer privileges to the official GEOS CVS repository. So, now I think I can say Hello! to the GEOS Development Team :-). After about two months of hacking, patching and contributing to GEOS project I’ve became a bit more privileged developer. This is a big honour for me to join the GEOS Team. I’m really happy!
I’d like to thank Sandro Santilli for his trust and advocacy. I’m very glad that I met Sandro on my way of life. I’d like to send big thanks to Frank Warmerdam, Howard Butler and Norman Vine for promoting my simple person to GEOS project and to the World of Open Source GIS generally.
The main roles I’m going to play in the GEOS project are: bug tracking and fixing, refactoring, introducing new techniques and tools to improve GEOS stability as well as supporting GEOS users. I’m also working on port of GEOS library for Windows CE operating system (current state: compilable).
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