I need this.. I could probably do it myself and have something in 2-3 years but there is only one of me. I'm willing to start a fund for it. Or trade something for it.. Or something.. Through out most of my life there are a few programs that I have come to rely on. Linux, Bash, X11, Vim, GCC, GDB (even though sometimes I curse it) and Ekiga. "A bunch of terms and Ekiga and I've got what I consider a desktop system" It's just that simple. It's been extremely hard for me to get by without it. You maybe asking yourself why? "Hell, there are all sorts of sip replacement and software phones you could use." All that maybe true, but none of them have the quality and ease of use of Ekiga. I'm just used to it, it's like someone telling me to stop using vim. It's just barbaric to me at this point to use something else. Plus I have the code, I don't have to worry about what's going on behind the scenes or learn some new code base.
"Ohhh, Chris you're just paranoid". No.. actually I am not. Tapped lines, people listening in on your phone calls.. Common place. You may not think so, but I know so. I realize this post will probably be a shot in the dark. Everyone on OSX will continue to use iChat or Skype and this will fall on not even deaf ears but into a large void of nothingness. There will be one person though, somewhere out there who also wants Ekiga on OSX and hopefully you've found this.
We are here, in this big black void of nothingness together and maybe someday if we are a small group. We can get together and do something about it. When that day comes.. I will recall this story and recite the birth as the cure which changed everything. Much like the spoken narration to the conclusion of "I Am Legend".
Light up the darkness.
So World Plone Day went off with a couple of hitches but all in all it was successful. There were some video and connectivity issues but the video should be online soon as well as the paper version of my talk. Really I promise to get all this stuff up soon. The talk was well received and hopefully it will be useful to others in the future. After the talk it was obvious I need to do my Phd in this stuff. The three-core tenets of content management were a success. All those ideas are in the paper version and i'll put up my slides or a link to them from nymag or whatever. I've been busy with playing pool and work so i've been really slack lately code/patch wise.
I'm almost done with the New York Media Plone stuff, it's a bitch. I'd like to thank Carsten Senger, Sebastien Nicouleaud and Jonathan Wilde (GSOC, 16 year old whiz-kid phenom) for working on Gnome Plone whilst everyone else is busy. That said after Plone Conf 2008 it was thrown into the collective. Available here. So if you want to work on it.. pull it down and get busy.
Next up on the list when I get some time is Plone API manual.. then I'm taking a break for a while. There will be some work on GnomeWeb-Plone in the next couple of weeks and that's it.
Other stuff, like embedded driver work and other stuff I'm not getting to; ever. The only Linux machine i'm using nowadays is my work machine and I plan to wipe that and install OS X. I'll get back to that stuff when and if it gets interesting to me again.
Pool is coming along won my first couple of games after 3-4 severe ass whippings. That is all.
Ekiga on OSX
I need this.. I could probably do it myself and have something in 2-3 years but there is only one of me. I'm willing to start a fund for it. Or trade something for it.. Or something.. Through out most of my life there are a few programs that I have come to rely on. Linux, Bash, X11, Vim, GCC, GDB (even though sometimes I curse it) and Ekiga. "A bunch of terms and Ekiga and I've got what I consider a desktop system" It's just that simple. It's been extremely hard for me to get by without it. You maybe asking yourself why? "Hell, there are all sorts of sip replacement and software phones you could use." All that maybe true, but none of them have the quality and ease of use of Ekiga. I'm just used to it, it's like someone telling me to stop using vim. It's just barbaric to me at this point to use something else. Plus I have the code, I don't have to worry about what's going on behind the scenes or learn some new code base.
"Ohhh, Chris you're just paranoid". No.. actually I am not. Tapped lines, people listening in on your phone calls.. Common place. You may not think so, but I know so. I realize this post will probably be a shot in the dark. Everyone on OSX will continue to use iChat or Skype and this will fall on not even deaf ears but into a large void of nothingness. There will be one person though, somewhere out there who also wants Ekiga on OSX and hopefully you've found this.
We are here, in this big black void of nothingness together and maybe someday if we are a small group. We can get together and do something about it. When that day comes.. I will recall this story and recite the birth as the cure which changed everything. Much like the spoken narration to the conclusion of "I Am Legend".
Light up the darkness.