- A crazy night ends. A dutch owner of an italian restarant in downtown Rome. Crazy. #
- Life is complicated. Sleeping helps to keep your mind sane. Open Everything is what drives me. But it is costing a lot. #
- Can we lead a google-free online life? I do hope it is possible. Help appreciated. #
- @evan which hotel are you at FOSDEM? I am at renaissance. #
- DRM tells your heirs that you don’t care about them. Only open data will survive. History repeating. #
- Massive attack – teardrop. Best. Song. Ever. #
- The Killers – Human. Memories. Mistakes. Let me sleep. Are we dancers? #
- Society is aiming for a split between choice and control. Choose your side – if you (still) can. #
- @netzpolitik nach EDRI noch ein wenig FOSDEM? #
- Preparing for ITWay event in Rome. #
- I vote for 140. No need for more. That is one of the fundamentals of microblogging. #
- @sandersch the 140 char limit also limits spam … #
- @sandersch and fixed length is very cool for using MB as messaging API. Makes QoS simpler. #
- @sanderch MicroBlogging
# - @krisbuytaert IM to me is 1:1 communication, but MB is 1:n … #
- @krisbuytaert or most of the time even m:n #
- Lunch, presentation, Office, FCO – BRU, hotel. That’s my day. #
- But I have seen Rome (from a taxi). And a weird dinner yesterday. #
- Looking forward to #FOSDEM. It is one of my personal highlights of the year. #
- Anyone know if transifex peeps are at #FOSDEM? #
- @rpcutts maemo has a stable, but small community since years. And as it is debian based, entry barrier is low. #
- @rpcutts but there is only one company that builds maemo devices. Dunno why Nokia doesn’t license it. #
- Where can I find licensing info on QR codes? #
- Presentation done. Next stop RH office. Then train to FCO, then flight to BRU. #
- @tonnerre correct. I have to memorize that. #
- @ruiseabra I land at 23:30, so I guess too late anyway. #
- @tonnerre according to my eTicket it *is* BRU
# - @glynmoody ACTA is becoming the Bretton-Woods of our times. #
- @ruiseabra I might have one beer with max spevack in our hotel, dunno #
- @carlopiana ubertwitter #fail when twitter and identi.ca username are identical. Staying with XMPP. #
- @glezos very cool. I have a lot to propose and discuss. Let’s find some time. You’ll like it. #
- I guess somebody just patented rotating paper sheets? http://is.gd/7Hh5C #uspto #fail #funny #
- In the leonarda express to #FCO. #FOSDEM, I am coming. #
- Seeing the (over)reaction on my blog entry on Google and Linux, I am quite sure I won’t be alone at #FOSDEM beer event. #
- It is weird ubuntu dev wants to maintain android drivers, gregKH removes them from staging and I get slapped for talking #
- @sdp that nano stuff – paid tweeting? #
- #boarding #AZ164 from #FCO to #BRU in an hour. #
- @sdp ack #
- I guess I will like Up in the air with george clooney. Storyline sounds familiar for the travel part. #
- @sixtus umgekehrt ist jdfs kein Problem. #
- Landed in #BRU. Be very afraid #
- @bdesmet killall long_walking_till_baggage_claim #
- @pietercolpaert @ruiseabra you guys already drunk? #googleBeer #
- First I need to get to my hotel and check in … #
- @ruiseabra my #needbeer will have to wait till tmrw. #
- @ruiseabra yep. What a surpise! #
- @ruiseabra so I guess she won’t join the #googlebeer #
- On my way to Rue Parnasse. Hoping for a nice room and maybe a beer at the bar. #
- @netzpolitik still in Brussels? #
- @ruiseabra what? The fsfe guys not joining #googlebeer? #
- @ruiseabra taxi #
- @ruiseabra we should crash sachikos wedding party #
- @pietercolpaert for me it is a must-go. The #googlebeer is angry at me #
- @pietercolpaert Just say no I will gladly pay though. #
- @pietercolpaert and Chris diBona and I could have a nice chat #
- @ruiseabra I am checking in #
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Lots of comments on my last blog entry. Let me make some points clear before you all turn the flamewar to full force.
FIRST I am NOT proposing you turn the beer event into a political demonstration. I do strongly encourage you to go there to have FUN. That’s what I will do. I will be there. Wearing my Fedora. So if you want to flame me for what I say, let’s do it face to face.
SECOND The fact that the developers working on the Android kernel parts seemingly (as pointed out by Greg Kroah-Hartman) have problems with upstreaming their patches is an alarming signal for the Linux community. I hope that Google shows us that I am wrong and they are willing to upstream their changes.
THIRD My call for saying “No, Thanks” to the beer is a pun directing to RMS famous quotes on comparing free beer and free speech.
So in closing: Geez, peeps! FOSDEM is about having fun *and* exchanging opinions. We should have both.
The unique opportunity that a lot of Open Source and Free Software minded people meet at FOSDEM could be a strong signal towards Google that we are there to *help* making things better.
So grab your beer, have fun and flame me if needed. If you want to throw your frustration and anger on me – fine. But I would prefer if you use that energy to get more Android patches upstream.
Deal?
UPDATE
This mail shows you that Google wants to get stuff upstream but ATM (that was in october last year) is limited in doing so..
We (Google) definitely want to get back in sync with mainline (as I’ve mentioned earlier in this or a related thread), and we’re planning on snapping up our kernel trees to 2.6.32+ once we get past various deadlines in the near future.