Interviews

In LugRadio Season 5 Episode 5 - "A Quality Production", Jono Bacon, Stuart Largefridge, Chris Proctor and Adam "Err..." Sweet interview Havoc Pennington and Colin Walters from Red Hat about the Gnome Online Desktop project, discuss whether we need rockstar programmers when there is hard, unglamorous work to do, consider whether the weirder side of Second Life is inhabited by freaks, electrocute themselves again in another quick distro round-up, behave smugly because LugRadio was chosen as the best Linux podcast in the Linux Format magazine Christmas issue and read out a dazzling array of emails to the show, with the best winning a limited edition LugRadio T-shirt, at last.

You, my friend, can avail yourself of too much excitement to handle by downloading it from http://www.lugradio.org/episodes/88".

Many free software advocates make a name for themselves by being involved with a single project. Dave Neary casts a wider net. He is a GNOME Foundation member, community manager of the OpenWengo project, and a former contributor to the GIMP project.

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If you're near Columbus, Ohio, you might want to sign up to attend the Ohio LinuxFest on Saturday, September 30.

The Ohio LinuxFest is a free annual conference and event for the Linux and Open Source community. Hosting authoritative speakers and a large expo, the Ohio LinuxFest welcomes Linux and Open Source Software professionals, enthusiasts, and anyone else who wants to take part in this exciting community event.

We're particularly pleased to announce that GNOME Foundation director Jeff Waugh will be delivering the opening keynote for the conference. In addition to Jeff Waugh, the conference will have Jon 'maddog' Hall, Jorge Castro, Jay Pipes, Michael Johnson, and a number of other prominent figures in the open source community.

I don't really know how to format this, since it's a podcast and not an article/story, but Chris DiBona and Leo Laporte interviewed Miguel on their podcast, FLOSS Weekly. You can check it out on the TWiT.tv website. They talk about Miguel's involvement in GNOME, Mono and Novell.

Source21.nl interviewed Jeff Waugh at the recent FOSDEM conference about the current things happening around GNOME.

The interview is available here (yes it is available in a not nice format)

OSNews interviews Robert Quattlebaum, the developer behind Synfig, the powerful 2D animation product which was open sourced recently under the GPL. Robert speaks out about Synfig's advantages, future plans, GTKmm and compares his project to commercial alternatives.

Jeff Waugh is an employee of Canonical Limited, the firm behind Ubuntu Linux. In his spare time he works on the GNOME window manager program. Jeff formerly was the release manager for GNOME.

On November 7, 2005, Jeff Waugh was far away from his native and current home in Australia. He was at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada, as part of his BadgerBadgerBadger tour. Jeff offered his insights into GNOME and Ubuntu in a talk titled "Running with Scissors". His talk was made possible by the organizing efforts of the University of Toronto graduate student Behdad Esfahbod.

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Lug Radio interviews Michael Meeks, Novell hacker and Busiest Man Alive, who talks about OpenOffice.org, Gnome, how you can get involved, and how to get lots of work done by not spending all day reading other people's weblogs...

Available in ogg-mp3 format

The ever popular LUGRadio has interviewed GNOME and Red Hat usability guru Seth Nickell. LUGRadio may contain language some users find offensive.

Metin Amiroff interviewed for OSNews the well known artists of KDE and GNOME, Everaldo and Jimmac: they discuss their first steps into Linux, the apps they use and why Linux still doesn't have all the pro apps/support they need for their day to day work (however they find apps like the Gimp and Blender 'great'), their inspiration, the state of the Linux desktop visually and usability-wise, the SVG factor and their future plans for KDE and Gnome.

Commercial vendors and Linux distributors are listening to the masses -- and fueling the hype -- with plans to shore up a viable Linux desktop solution for the enterprise. IBM, for one, has made noise about moving to Linux on its desktops internally. Sun has released its Java Desktop System and Novell/SuSE and Red Hat have also made some rumblings lately about renewing their commitments to a Linux desktop. Novell has already brought in a couple of heavyweights with its acquisition of Ximian last year and SuSE Linux AG in January. Not only did Novell snare the popular Ximian technology, but it brought aboard luminaries Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza. Friedman will deliver the keynote at this week's Real World Linux Conference, and in this interview, he discusses Novell's commitment to the Linux desktop, barriers, misconceptions and the importance of success stories.
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Fans of the Open Source Gnumeric spreadsheet program are rather proud of their project. Being Open Source, Gnumeric enthusiasts can point to yet another community project that demonstrates how free software can engender best-of breed applications. Gnumeric, part of the GNOME desktop environment, is good enough to say, "See? Excel and Lotus are not the be all and end all."
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Miguel De Icaza is the creator of the GNOME desktop environment. Below, Aleksey Dolya interviews Miguel about the process of creating GNOME and what he's up to these days.

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"He chose to paint the situation that exists between GNOME and KDE as a picture of glorious harmony - but then one can only ask questions. One can't dictate answers." So, what do you do when you're given a set of unprofessional and highly combative interview questions? You dodge the bullets and tell the truth! :-) Here's an interview I did with a local newspaper last week. Harsh!

This week FOSDEM releases two new interviews, the first with Havoc Pennington and the second with Owen Taylor.