Like Vincent, I occasionally care too much about some things. Because of that, I volunteered for the second year in a row to help out as an admin for the GNOME Google Summer of Code. My role will mainly be making sure every student keeps on track, organize a session at the Desktop Summit and try to get our students integrated into the community over the summer / during the summit.
To students that are still in doubt: Having done two Summer of Codes as a student myself, I can only conclude that this is probably the nicest way to earn some bucks as a student. Fun and interesting. The deadline for idea submission is approaching fast, but there’s still plenty of time to write-up a proposal. Talk to a maintainer and please work on top of an existing project rather than building something new.
I myself won’t be able to take up the mentoring of a student as I’m too busy founding a company (but that’s the subject of a future post). Now go submit your ideas and prepare for an awesome summer!
As promised, here are the slides from the Mono Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011. Unfortunately no video recordings this year.
HTML5 is a great improvement for the web and like most designers, I try to use it in my web development work. There’s one little caveat to be aware of, which bit me in the behind quite hard recently: not all browsers understand the new elements, such as 
I’ve become a fan of 
Good thing someone told me or I would have missed it. The interview (which I unfortunately can’t share) covers F-Spot, Mono, photography on the free desktop and my own experiences and advice on taking your first steps as an open-source hacker. Never expected it to be published after so long.
We’ve just pushed out a stable bugfix release for 