Learning from Poland

On 2009/04/06 · 1 Comment · In Tour

So we went to this conf did a keynote got tons of respect and love from local hackers and entrepreneurs etc.

After that we went to another talk at the modern art museum about artistic typography. The speker was a complete crazy person whose focus was about her business model. Her assumption was that a client is not a client but a commissioner. So the relation between her and her customer was according to her a mutual respect and idea exchanging type of thing. In reality it was her bossing around and obscuring other peoples books. She worked with concepts such as “no page numbering”, “folded pages” and “printing on coffee paper”. Her outgoing style was creative but stubborn so if a commissioner would refuse her ideas she would drop them.

This gave her allot of room for her artistic expression and the crowd was astonished and impressed by her way of working and also the end results (which I think was of mediocre quality considering that the use of typography is for 1, structuring reading 2, attracting reader).

I guess you are probably thinking, you dont have to go to Poland to figure this out. But actually you do have to go at least somewhere to see how your relation to your creativity makes a huge difference on “product end user experience”.

So I put this new experience in to relation to the previous delivery by me and Olle on Bootstrap on which we were creative but not very stubborn, sort of “creative in a modest way”. Which in itself was a success but more a success of inspiration then a success on product delivery, that is convincing Warsaw hackers that they should not be afraid of hardware and sharing space for their productions.

Thats all from my braindump for now. In addition Id like to say “öst är bäst”.

Further, the idea of having a conf for three hours or so is very intresting. Reasons: low hosting cost, low attention span demand, good focus ie, good results.

Thanks for your time, regards Kugg.

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Research report

On 2009/04/02 · Leave a Comment · In Forskningsavdelningen

Hey, a research report is due, so here it is.

Tuesday’s meetup was quite ordinary: we got together, had some coffee, laughs, and tinkering. Some activities were heads-down concentration, others were much more social.

We opened the box that held 10 phones and a PBX. No manual! Googling got us nowhere fast, so kugg just began tinkering with a hookup for a phone. Video was shot of the unboxing. Not so great footage, though.

These were not your regular RJ-11 jacks, but a thinner connector, like something out of your PC’s innards. Following color codes and using a crimp tool, he got it right. A red handset with a GNU sticker on it was quickly connected, and there was much rejoicing when we heard an audible click from the relay that did the connection to the phone-line inside the unit.

Forskningsavd.se IRC old-timer hossi, came by, and introduced some p2p ideas, and showed his mobile-phone streaming setup (quite sweet). Olle introduced him to Mercurial, and test-drove Mozilla Bespin.

Linda was tinkering with her uncooperative Win laptop’s wireless connection.

Gunde was building more audio infrastructure for multi-channel recording and mixing (with NetJack), there were new external soundcards for the Linux box, and before the meeting there had been a cleanup action, which prettified the whole physical setup of the computer.

Some library software was tested. It did not really pass our quality reqs: needs to run on a very old computer. Soon, we’ll have a pro librarian around.

phrst did something obscure with the computer.

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