Yay! The OpenDocument format (ODF) has now been approved by ISO/IEC members. For the uninitiated, ODF is

an open XML-based document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents (including memos, reports, and books), spreadsheets, charts, and presentations. OpenDocument was developed as an application-independent file format by OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), a vendor-neutral standards organization.

ODF is currently employed by OpenOffice 2.0, KOffice, Abiword, and tons of other applications. Lots of other office suites and programs will likely follow. The recently formed ODF Alliance now has more than 150 member organizations. On a related note: the proposed IEEE 802.11n working draft was not yet approved by the IEEE 802.11 Working Group... (via Nico Golde)

For the first time in more that 10 days, I slept like a baby last night. It might hurt the xlibs-dev transition, but I hope it actually helps in the long run, I will make less mistakes, bug vorlon and dato a bit less, be more aware and awake. Now I just need to keep a balanced sleeping schedule again. I think have good allies.

I have started a small experiment that is against all rules but might spread some package love. So far, I have been successfully working with Victor Seva, Justin Pryzby, Thomas Viehmann and Nico Golde. Join us if you care about this transition!

On the other hand, I find recent threads in debian-devel, debian-private and several posts in debian-devel-announce very distracting. Although I am strongly opinionated on the subjects being discussed, I'd rather remain semi-silent and work in my "NMU love".

You might have already noticed (if not, you will, very very soon) that the FSF has released the first draft of the forthcoming GNU General Public License 3. You can leave comments on the license or help to populate the wiki, if you're inclined. I think the Rationale Document will be very interesting to read (for me, at least). I'll leave it to more competent people to comment on the pros and cons of the changes of this new version... I hope that in the end (after a few more months of reviews etc.) we will have a fine new version of the GPL which will suit the majority of the Free Software world very well. Update 2006-01-18: Here's a nice diff between GPLv2 and GPLv3-draft1 (thanks Nico Golde).

For the first time in more that 10 days, I slept like a baby last night. It might hurt the xlibs-dev transition, but I hope it actually helps in the long run, I will make less mistakes, bug vorlon and dato a bit less, be more aware and awake. Now I just need to keep a balanced sleeping schedule again. I think have good allies.

I have started a small experiment that is against all rules but might spread some package love. So far, I have been successfully working with Victor Seva, Justin Pryzby, Thomas Viehmann and Nico Golde. Join us if you care about this transition!

On the other hand, I find recent threads in debian-devel, debian-private and several posts in debian-devel-announce very distracting. Although I am strongly opinionated on the subjects being discussed, I'd rather remain semi-silent and work in my "NMU love".