OCaml(Core) GForge enters beta testing status Since a few weeks we have set up a team of people which is working on offering software services for the OCaml community, which in this respect has been lagging behind other programming language communities for too long. By chance, the team has turned out to be composed by Debian DDs and contributors (Sylvain Le Gall which is leading the effort and also offering hardware via his new company, Pietro Abate, Romain Beauxis, and myself). The name of the project is OCamlCore. A few weeks ago we announced the availability of an OCaml-related planet, which since yesterday is also being advertised on the resource page of the language. The other relevant service we are setting up is a forge for hosting OCaml-related software projects. Yesterday we have finally announced the beta testing of the forge, which is available at http://forge.ocamlcore.org. We are now looking for people which has a OCaml-related software projects which want to go to a forge or want to migrate there, and are willing to help us in discovering and fixing potential pending issues. If you are interested please read the announcement, register to the forge, and submit the project request. Please state explicitly in the project description that you are aware of the current beta testing status. Your help is needed and will be very much appreciated!

With a small team, we are setting up ocamlcore.org. For now the site is quite experimental. This site should help OCaml developpers to have a common place to share their coding experience with other. This includes, but is not limited to, a planet and a forge. I think that we will be able to finish the setup of the planet quite soon, but i am uncertain about the forge settings, which is far more complicated. However, this is a great experiment, because i never have really try to set up this kind of things... I think this week (and this week-end) will help us achieve a great part of the settings of ocamlcore.org. We will have occasions to meet face to face with Stefano Zacchiroli and Romain Beauxis, either here in Paris or at FOSDEM.

mpbeventd v0.9 is out featuring audio support, based on code contributed by Romain BEAUXIS. Starting with this version, the initial backlight level setting is optional (see config file). I’m opening a DBus branch based on this version; the goal is to have graphical clients reacting to the events sent through DBus, and eventually integrate with standard tools (HAL and gnome-power-manager have been mentionned). If you have on opinion on that and want to help (ie, you are an mbpeventd user), feel free to contact me. If enough people are interested, I’ll move mbpeventd on Alioth.