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Impressions from GUADEC 2010
Arrived in Amsterdam on Jul 22. First person I bumped into was Marc-Andre, fun. Already saw more of that city in one afternoon than I managed during the Maemo Desktop Summit in 2009.
Enjoyed trip to House of Bols on monday, Holland House Improved FTW (you won't find it on their website). Free shots got me squiffy. Bought passion liquor (let's hope Jon is trustworthy).
Met the trainees later the day and went to the Hague. Nice city, not as crazy as Amsterdam. Liked the sea side + grote markt.
GUADEC itself was great. Should have looked into the user-centric-design workshop I guess, but missed the one on monday, and the other overlaped with a talk, oh well. ClutterSmith looks fun. Compared to how you'd have to use Qt's graphics view + state machine framework, to get something similar, I prefer the tool-based approach that hides all the boring code from me, but allows me to focus on the transition logic.
MX and St are thinking about a remerge, that's a good thing. In overall, GNOME Shell looks a lot more promising now.
Let's see whether we can make GUADEC 2011 in Berlin as good as this one.
