ervin’s piece of web

Today is my last day in Boston. I’ll take my flight back to France in a few hours. I’m taking my time, relaxing a bit before I take my plane. I’ll surely go to the airport early and try to buy postcards from there… I didn’t manage to find an open postoffice, since it’s the Thanksgiving week-end, lot of shops are closed.

This week-end was really nice, attending this summit was really a great opportunity. I’ve been well accepted there, we had fruitful discussions, and I hope it’ll be the beginning of a better collaboration between KDE and Gnome in some important areas. We can definitely do a lot of interesting things and push the UNIX desktop at another level. It could become the only platform I know proposing two different desktops (in philosophy, etc.) while keeping consistency when it makes sense with shared frameworks under the hood. Of course, it’ll be a permanent trade-off to also keep diversity, and we’ll have to make compromises in order to make everybody happy… interesting times.

Finally, the funny thing is that I more or less discovered two cultures this week-end, the american culture and the Gnome hacker culture. Yes, they have a different culture in their own community, and that’s perfectly fine: diversity. I like to go in another country and discover some different habits, way of thinking, etc. I had this exact same feeling with the fellow Gnome hackers. Of course, I’m also happy to go back home, both in my country and in the KDE community.

Now, it’s time for me to move on, I’ll take a breakfast/lunch in one or two hours, and then try to find my way to the airport. I’ll surely won’t blog before I get home. See you later all!