Wed, 07 Jun 2006

Project start

My project has had a slow start. Apart from preparing the application and presenting it to the Summer Code Finland jury, I decided to postpone the project to the summer months, in favour of my studies. I contacted some people such as David Reveman though and had discussions about the plans. I also had to follow the developments around X.org, Xgl, Compiz, Kororaa live-cd, Dapper live-cd etc. I've been able to compile and run the whole Compiz stack on my Debian Sarge laptop in jhbuild, but never with proper-looking output. We'll see if I'm able to return to Debian Sarge during the summer or if it all will be life on the bleeding edge.

In May, I travelled to DebConf6 to meet a lot of fellows and to get a motivating vacation in Mexico. I got to see the X Window System hackers Jim Gettys and Keith Packard, and Keith gave the good advice to try make a great demo :-) He also told the input redirection is not going to be here yet — luckily I don't really need it, this just means that for the moment windows can't accept input while my plugin is active (same goes for example to the Exposé-lookalike plugin called Scale).

After the great trip, returning to Finland wasn't easy at all (and I've read in Planet Debian that it certainly wasn't difficult just for me. The week I had reserved for project preparations was hardly enough for the jet lag! I managed to find and select a nice virtual server provider for the hosting though. A small project like mine wouldn't necessarily need a server, but being used to a modern development environment with distributed version control and having bad experience about the performance and reliability of project hosting sites, I opted for my own server that I can configure to skip all the extra hoops.

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