GUADEC 2004, Day 2
I took a hell lot of pics yesterday .. totally around 240 pics till yesterday night. Dan and JP had a blast at night, and reached home pretty late [ about 3am i suppose ]. Woke up early today and was ready to go for the talks by 8:30am. We walked our way to the talks. It was a very clear day with lovely blue sky with nice and chill breeze.
Attended some very good talks today. The first one was by Federico [ who was the third person i was sharing my room with ]. His talk about GTK+ APIs was awesome. It was a good walk-through to all the important APIs in GTK+ and GNOME. Federico along with Miguel was the founder of GNOME in Mexico, way back in 1998 [ or is it 1999 ?? ].
The next talk was something very interesting. It was about typography, by Liam Quinn, from MIT [ a professor ]. He talked about the human visual aspects and gave some lovely anecdotes too. I shall add them up here once i find some good time to write down the notes i took. One funny anectode that comes to my mind now is the announcement at the British airport, where they ask all the wheel chair users to "stand up" as it was time to board the flight now. Though, they actually meant "to queue up", it was quite funny way to ask that. Another one, was by a sports commentator, speaking about snooker. He says "for the benefit of our black and white television viewers, the red ball is just next to the pink one" ... :-)
Its almost 4pm in the noon now, and i think i will go attend Michael Meeks talk now on "GNOME and Open Software" ...
Attended some very good talks today. The first one was by Federico [ who was the third person i was sharing my room with ]. His talk about GTK+ APIs was awesome. It was a good walk-through to all the important APIs in GTK+ and GNOME. Federico along with Miguel was the founder of GNOME in Mexico, way back in 1998 [ or is it 1999 ?? ].
The next talk was something very interesting. It was about typography, by Liam Quinn, from MIT [ a professor ]. He talked about the human visual aspects and gave some lovely anecdotes too. I shall add them up here once i find some good time to write down the notes i took. One funny anectode that comes to my mind now is the announcement at the British airport, where they ask all the wheel chair users to "stand up" as it was time to board the flight now. Though, they actually meant "to queue up", it was quite funny way to ask that. Another one, was by a sports commentator, speaking about snooker. He says "for the benefit of our black and white television viewers, the red ball is just next to the pink one" ... :-)
Its almost 4pm in the noon now, and i think i will go attend Michael Meeks talk now on "GNOME and Open Software" ...
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