• Got positive feedbacks about our plans. We still need to write down things for people who are not at GUADEC (sorry that it feels like teasing to you). I'm not posting the slides yet since, well, they're pretty much useless without some text. Some people are worried that we're going to do something big that might destabilize GNOME: we're pretty aware of those kind of risks and that's relly not the plan. We will try to write all the details today or tomorrow, but it's hard to find free time for that during GUADEC.

• New plan for copyright assignment and licensing in evolution. Summary: no more copyright assignment, move to LGPLv2 and LGPLv3. I was far from being a fan of the copyright assignment requirement, so cool news.

• Matt Webb's keynote was good. Many interesting thoughts, and it was funny to see him recommend some kind of documentation for the various D-Bus APIs we have -- something I had in the back of my head: it will indeed encourage people to start playing with them. And doing new stuff.

• Had a discussion with Dimitris about how to organize the work on Transifex, and he sent his thoughts as a roadmap.

• Yet another meeting. With Lennart, Bastien, Jens and Marc-André about sound in GNOME. Productive, with action items.

• The boat party was great. Many thanks to Collabora for such a good time!

• We of course had the Ice Cream Deathmatch. So, it seems people thought it was all about speed, while really it's all about enjoying :-) On the other hand, Henri Bergius (if I remember well) is just not a human since he ate everything so quickly. But, well, his bio mentions Henri Bergius is a former Viking based in the Nordic country of Finland...

• A party on a boat is great. There can be some small issues, though. Like: when you don't hear that you have some limited time to go out of the boat before it does another round. We were quite a few people in this situation. Ooops :-)

• Chatted with Owen and Andreas. Result: we'll try to organize a hackfest. I love how starting to talk about something can lead to some really concrete idea.

• The gourmet restaurant tradition has been honored. GUADEC wouldn't be GUADEC without this.

• Lucas and I have been volunteered to do a lightning talk about GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility. One of the things that people seem to not really know about this program is all the small tasks that are easy to complete. Everybody should at least take a look!

• To let people know that their lightning talk time was about to end, Behdad hacked some quick & dirty script that beeped quite loudly. Annoying. Amazing.

• Around 115 people attended the Foundation AGM. Went great -- we actually expecting tougher questions ;-)

• Federico knows how to do awesome demos during a keynote. Sure, he's cheating with non-live stuff, but still awesome!

Slides and details will be posted later. Discuss :-)

• The GUADEC keys are awesome. So small. Thanks Mandriva!

• The Drooling Macaque Band was at the cocktail party yesterday evening. Perhaps we should record them live next year? Oh, and we had this idea of doing a GNOME song in the past...

• Was glad to hear that I tricked some people into drinking some cherry juice, thinking it was wine. Don't steal my glass :-)

• Forgot to mention that the gitorious demo that the spicy hacker made on Monday was interesting.

• Looks like I'm completely exhausted most of the time :/ Could be because of the RMLL conference last week, or because of all the meetings... If you come talk to me and see I'm nearly sleeping, don't worry, just come back 30 minutes later -- I'm generally much better after a while.

• Having Stormy rocks. Every time I see her, she's either explaining some great ideas, or talking with someone different to learn more about the project and the people. She will just know everything, I guess :-)

• Having Behdad rocks. He's running everywhere, organizing things, and doing tons of stuff.

• Luis said "don't be afraid to talk to big people like Michael. He's so right. Everybody here is nice and willing to talk with everybody else. But I can also understand why you can be impressed by Michael -- always brings a new perspective, that makes you think for quite some time :-)

• Since I push people to pronounce Vincent correctly (ie, french way), I also try to pronounce other names correctly. Makes me feel happy to have this international touch.

• The Ice Cream Deathmatch will happen tonight, at the boat party. If you see Ali, hug him: he's doing all the hard work to organize it!

• I heard Kris' keynote about GTK+ this afternoon is most interesting.

• Istanbul looks great. Many cats. Helpful people. Lots of beatiful things everywhere. And I went to Asia for the first time in my life yesterday evening. Sure, it was only the asian side of Istanbul, but still, big event!

• Quite easy to spot GUADEC people when you walk around. And hard to eat somewhere and not find some of them :-)

• Lucas really is my evil twin. Proof: those two posts that also summarize my first two days. Lots of discussion with him. Hard to not fall in love with him ;-)

• Doctor Don is here. And it seems he's talking about pulse to lots of people because Shaun promised him eternal glory.

• Had a BoF about release notes. Hopefully, this has helped make people aware of the various issues we have when writing release notes. Important thing that most people seem to not know: the most consuming part of the release notes is doing research about what to put in there, not writing -- so no need to be a good writer to help! Oh, and if you're here in Istanbul, you should really go and talk to Davyd or Murray to get them excited about new 2.24 material that they should put in the release notes.

• Andreas still loves to tell this story about his ancestors, the woodmen. Explains a lot of things.

• Also had a talk/BoF about translation tools. I think we really have a good plan, and Dimtiris is so great. Good to see my beloved Danilo again and glad to see his positive feelings about all this.

• Couldn't attend many sessions so far because of meetings. That's a bit sad, but on the other hand, everything went well and there are some exciting stuff.

• I'm Silvia again this year. Still no progress in catalan.

• I also have two nametags, so I'm ready in case somebody starts stealing all nametags.

• Couldn't play the FreeFA tournament, but I heard Bastien lost. Don't know if I can go and ask him to check it's true :-)

• No Love/Hate wall yet? Any volunteer to set this up?

I'm a bit late to the party, but I really want to send a very warm welcome to Stormy. Yep, we hired her as our executive director. And I'm already convinced she'll just rock our world :-) And if you need to be convinced, just go and talk to her. Really. Do it. Now.

Great to have such an announcement on the first day of GUADEC :-)