Community Matters

This may seem like a silly problem to have – but I tend to hate pictures of myself. But with Twitter and many other social media services (and blogs, and wikis where you are supposed to introduce yourself) it turns out that having a good picture of yourself is very useful – first impressions matter.

I actually found a picture that I like – taken by James Duncan Davidson during my OSCON 2008 keynote.

Understandably his terms on Flickr restrict reuse of his work, but when I asked him he was kind enough to allow me to use a crop of this as my avatar. Super nice!

Today I had the pleasure of presenting about MeeGo in the mobile Linux track at LinuxTag 2010. The room was packed, thankfully I had a double slot so I had plenty of time to talk about the what and the why and the how of MeeGo. I talked about the origins of MeeGo and explained the governance model. I walked through the architecture and then spent a lot of time explaining how we focus on working with the upstream projects. Finally I dared to do an unscripted demo of MeeGo on a Netbook (for stupid reasons I had to show it on a somewhat bigger system, a ThinkPad X200s). I was able to show myZone, some of the apps (email, media), social media interactions and the breadth of additional software that is available.

Things went fairly well, if I can believe the comments on Twitter and what people told me afterwards in person.

The presentation is on the MeeGo presentation site