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Jonathan Dowland | @jmtd@pleroma.debian.social

Principal Software Engineer on #OpenJDK #IBM. #Debian developer. PhD in Computing Science. Amateur historian (Computing Science and H/W, esp. Commodore Amiga). Guerilla archivist.

@sxa yeah the review process was very quick. Impressive

@richardfontana I'd somehow missed that you'd moved into IBM (as have I, with the Middleware crew). "Welcome" might not be temporally accurate but "welcome" anyway!

For speakers who gave a talk. Please check your mail with a link to our review system and review your talk (5 min check to mark the start and finish of your talk and check if the audio quality is ok).
The sooner you review your talk, the sooner it will get published.

@jzb Welp I failed to meet you. On the very off chance you’re near À La Becasse in the next hour and would like a beer. Find me!

@xavier sorry I missed this! I’m going to be in À La Becasse for the next hour (lovely pub near grand place) and you’d be welcome to join me (and small group of friendly Debian people)

@xavier I *loved* your PAW talk, thank you for sharing. I have more to write but you-know, FOSDEM, so maybe later!

Spoiler: I got in #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #debian
View from the back of a crowded DevRoom for DPL talk

The queue for the Debian project leader’s talk is enormous. And quite frankly I’m surprised. I doubt I’ll get in. But this much interest can only be good?

@neil fair enough… decompress! If you hit the bars tonight let fedi know

Un meme ambientado en el espacio oscuro con estrellas. A la izquierda, el planeta Tierra es visible. Un astronauta con un traje espacial blanco y una bandera estadounidense en el brazo mira hacia la Tierra. Una burbuja de diálogo cerca de la Tierra dice: "Wait, it's all hope in spite of the terror?" (Espera, ¿todo es esperanza a pesar del terror?). A la derecha, otro astronauta con un traje espacial blanco (que lleva un parche de la bandera de Ohio en el hombro) sostiene un gran ramo de rosas rosadas y melocotón con pequeñas flores blancas, atado con una cinta rosa. Sobre la cabeza de este astronauta, el texto dice: "always has been" (siempre ha sido).

@neil (I’m now enconsed in a room for an hour or so, will ping later)

@neil are you still about? I’ll try to come and say hello if so

@neil “the coin culture”, coffee shop on one corner of “U” building, on the main strip, is *slightly* calmer than elsewhere. I’ve just secured a comfy sofa seat to recharge myself a little
Photo of coin culture coffee shop

@neil fwiw it’s generally quieter on Sunday. Especially in the morning. Good time for stalls

"we need to stop framing maintenance as a moral virtue instead of just work" -- Marga Manterola, at

It's been a little over a decade since David Bowie died but somebody still really needs to make this cover, perhaps now more than ever https://mastodon.social/@glyph/112902085185148283

RT: https://mastodon.social/users/glyph/statuses/112902085185148283

@kkremitzki thank you!

A nice graph that shows how Mozilla dropped the ball on Servo. Now the project is thriving under Igalia’s stewardship.

Bar chart showing a drop and then triple rise on contributions to servo over the past 8 years

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