Tomorrow I’ll be speaking in Huskvarna about free software. It’s a bit of a tailor made presentation which has been very fun to elaborate on during the last weeks. I’ve made some new friends through this presentation so even before it feels great. Here’s the invitation.

I will speak a bit about the history of free software, GNU, copyright/copyleft, licenses, project management and motivation in the community and bridge to the next speaker (Jeremiah (see above)) by talking a bit about Moblin and Maemo … and yes, Meego.

As for the presentations I will surely go and see:

• Sylvain Beucler talk about GNU Savannah: 100% free software mass-hosting

a topic I find interesting for many reasons, more on that later

• Daniel Stenberg talk about Rockbox: open source firmware replacement for music players

since I missed Daniel talk about this at FSCONS. As a FSCONS organiser I can’t just sit

• Mirko Lindner, Jon Phillips talk about Copyleft Hardware and the Ben Nanonote

I missed Mirko’s presentation at FSCONS as well …. always on the move at FSCONS

And, of course I hope I will be able to do some business (Sandklef GNU Labs) down there. During some breaks I will prepare some presentations at “my” University next week and also prepare a Free Software presentation for a company later on in February (more on that later).

This year I’ll be traveling with Andreas Nilsson and Jeremiah Foster.  Same procedure as last year…

see you there

… did you see how I managed to mention FSCONS 6 times (including that very last)

Cool thing is that the makefile for the new program becomes really small. For a new program, do a Makefile looking something like this:

SRC=test1.c

PROG=test1

include <your path>/libarduino/arduino.mk

… and you can now do (among other things)

make

make install

the last target install the application to your arduino.

Anyhow, the presentation is open I think, so if you care to come over, just do so

Hopefully the schedules will be published soon. Hmm, as co organiser of FSCONS I know it’s hard to come up with a schedule in the quagmire of planning. But as a guest I want to have it. Will Keith Packard come and enlighten us with Xorg news?

Anyhow, the GNU plans for FOSDEM can be found here: http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2010/fosdem/

GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and distribute
user actions under the X11 environment. Think of it as a robot that can
imitate the job you just did. GNU Xnee can be used to:
Automate tests
Demonstrate programs
Distribute actions
Record and replay ‘macro’
Retype the content of a file

Getting the Software
====================

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.05.tar.gz

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.05.tar.gz.sig

or one of the mirror sites as found in:

http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html

Checksums
===========

md5sum:
0ba4ea4f6102bcc0b478f4a6fe787b0b  xnee-3.05.tar.gz

cksum:
3878268877 1666788 xnee-3.05.tar.gz

New in this release
===================

* Fixed bugs reported on bug-xnee@gnu.org:
“Bug report: libpanelapplet-2.0″ (12/15/2009 11:07 AM)
“Bug report: No package ‘libgnomeui-2.0′ found”
(12/15/2009 11:03 AM)
“Configure Error” (12/15/2009 11:07 AM)
“Error in configure.” (12/15/2009 11:09 AM)
“Building from CVS” (12/17/2009 07:19 PM)

* Build changes:
configure bails out when building any gui
and no pkg-config installed

Better help during configure if no gtk, gnomeui found

Telling user to run configure with –enable-doc option set,
when building from CVS (make -f Makefile.cvs)

New file (README.cvs) to ease up for users building from CVS

It’s the name of a song one of my daughters wanted me to play while driviing the car. She became frustrated and tried to give me hints such as “you know the song Ella likes”… after a while she said something about a Doctor. Then, it stuck me.

Such a night with Dr John

When Signe tried to say Such a night, it became futsanaj.

GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and distribute
user actions under the X11 environment. Think of it as a robot that can
imitate the job you just did. GNU Xnee can be used to:

Automate tests
Demonstrate programs
Distribute actions
Record and replay ‘macro’
Retype the content of a file

Getting the Software
====================

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.04.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.04.tar.gz.sig

or one of the mirror sites as found in:

http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html

Checksums
===========

md5sum:
13f23c2f50685bb394a64a567a2aac22 xnee-3.04.tar.gz

cksum:
2196298073 1647230 xnee-3.04.tar.gz

New in this release
===================
* Bugs fixed:

Bad context / RECORD bug fixed to some extent:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3722
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20500
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21971
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/315456
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/379432

Workaround for RECORD problem in Xorg 1.6.0
recording device events also as delivered

Seg faults on Solaris 10

Bugs reported on savannah.gnu.org
#27850 “Segmentation Fault in print.c”
#27849: “Another Bug in xnee_resource.c”
#27848: “Segmentation fault”

* Doc changes:
Moved Top node outside of ifinfo statment
Falling back to one rule for ps and pdf

* Build changes:
configure looks for libgnomeui
Checking for ps2pdf14 as well as ps2pdf

For a while, Xnee has been malfunctioning on some platforms. Hopefully some code committed yesterday will "solve it all on all platforms" (uh oh, sounds like famous last words!!).

More information here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-xnee/2009-12/msg00000.html

Played around with some XSync, XFlush to make sure we had a record context before firing the enable context call (XRecordEnableContextAsync) call.

Will now clean up the code, test (using swinput) some more (regression) and commit to CVS.

Dare I say we have a 3.04 release coming any day?