This time we are changing the location a little.  We are still having the party on Novell’s Provo campus, but in one of the executive briefing rooms building H which is the tall south most building.

Everyone is welcome.  If you are planning on coming please let us know by sending me an email sshaw ]at[ decriptor ]dot[ com.  We are hoping to have food and swag to give away.

Details:

March 17, 2011

6:30 to 8:00 pm

Executive Briefing Center, Building H

Novell Provo Campus

Here is the poster we threw together.  The artwork was provided by someone in the community and the poster was put together by my awesome wife.

So, a huge thanks to all.

So, if you’d like to join us and show your appreciation for all that Bryen has done we ask that you donate what you can at this link: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/13645

FireBreath aims to be a cross-platform plugin architecture, targeting:

• NPAPI browsers on windows, mac, and linux:
  • Gecko/Firefox
  • Google Chrome
  • Apple Safari
• ActiveX Control hosts:
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8

FireBreath is licensed under a dual license structure; this means you can choose which of two licenses to use it under. FireBreath can be used under the New BSD license or the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1.

Here is his announcement and reflections on starting an open source project.

Over the last several months a fair amount of attention has been paid to improving at-spi2 as well.  For those that don’t know what at-spi2 is its the next generation of Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface.  The new at-spi2 using dbus in an effort to remove corba and bonobo from the gnome stack.

A huge benefit of this work is that kde will be able to use it without pulling in a bunch of gnome dependencies allowing for a clean desktop independent accessibility infrastructure.

Some release details:

• Improved compatibility with AT-SPI2, including fixes and performance.
• More compatibility with Silverlight Accessibility for UIA Clients.
• Caching improvements in UIA Client API.
• Support for custom providers and client-side providers.

As well as where you can find the packages:

• openSUSE 11.2 - 1-Click Install
• Ubuntu Karmic Koala - Package Archive on Launchpad
• Fedora 12 - Repository on openSUSE Build Service
• Source tarballs

For more details – The UIA Team Blog

The next thing I want to mention is that I’ve started to work on an openSUSE 11.2 based iFolder appliance that will include, as of right now, iFolder 3.8.  I’ll be posting links to the test images for anyone that would like to help test, comment, contribute, etc.  Please feel free to post bugs to the project page and I’ll do my best to fix them.

The application we wrote is an android frontend to WebYaST.   The way the application works is that it takes advantage of the RESTful API that is provided by the WebYaST service.

As of right now our application is still fairly simple with some really cool ideas.  Also, as the WebYaST REST interface adds new features we’ll be able to add them to our app as well.

Screenshots you say?  I’m sorry to disappoint, however we do have this awesome video that demos our app instead.  Brought to you by Scott Reeves and Stephen Shaw with a special thanks to our camera man Chris Coray and Novell for hosting the video.

So, here is a flash video and mp4 video.

EDIT: Sorry, here are the links to the source code and an apk if you’d like to test it and give us feedback.

So, for example if you typed:

 vi mypackage.spec

you would get:

#
# This file and all modifications and additions to the pristine
# package are under the same license as the package itself.
#

# norootforbuild

Name:           mypackage
Version:
Release:
Summary:
Group:
License:
Url:
PreReq:
Provides:
BuildRequires:
Source:
Patch:
BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
AutoReqProv:    on

%description

Authors:
--------
    Name Surname

%prep
%setup

%build
%configure
make %{?jobs:-j%jobs}

%install
%makeinstall

%clean
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT

%post
%postun

%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
%doc ChangeLog README COPYING

%changelog
* Wed Jan 13 2010 sshaw at stshaw.site

The Open Source Technology Center, building A on the Novell campus, has been good enough to host us again.  It will be this Thursday, November 12 from 6 to 9.

I do not have the replicated DVDs, but I will have some burned copies of the isos.

We don’t have a sponsor for pizza yet, but please RSVP anyways just in case.  Maybe we can have people throw some money in for pizza.

Pass the word on and See you all there!

UPDATE:

We will have pizza and drinks.  Please RSVP!!!

I wish them all the best in this chapter they are opening up!