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Student session at the Desktop Summit

Posted on Friday July 29, 2011 by Ruben

The 2011 Desktop Summit in Berlin will be starting in a week from now. I’ll be there as part of the GNOME GSoC administration team. As part of that, we’re organizing a showcase session for all GNOME and KDE students. … Continue reading →

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Summer of Code Lightning Talks at GUADEC

Posted on Wednesday July 28, 2010 by Ruben

Tomorrow at GUADEC there will be a session on Google Summer of Code. It will be structured as a lightning talk session where the students will do the talking and present their projects. Attend the session if you want to … Continue reading →

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Diving into the unknown: Looking for a new job

Posted on Tuesday July 20, 2010 by Ruben

After long and careful consideration, I’ve made the decision to announce that I will be quitting my PhD position in a few months. I firmly believe that you should do what you are passionate about and over the past few … Continue reading →

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Post GCDS

Posted on Wednesday July 22, 2009 by Ruben

This post is long overdue, but still deserves posting: I went to GCDS earlier this month and I cannot deny the fact that I had a great time. Some remarks: The whole conference appeared to be nicely organized, kudos to … Continue reading →

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A tale about design

Posted on Friday July 17, 2009 by Ruben

Last week at GCDS, we rented a minivan and road-tripped around the island. One Banshee hacker (Bertrand), one F-Spot hacker (me) and six guys from the GNOME art team (Garrett, jimmac, Benjamin, Andreasn, Vinicius and mpt). From a risk management … Continue reading →

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Graduation & GCDS

Posted on Friday July 3, 2009 by Ruben

Officially a computer scientist As of today, I have graduated and I am now officially a master of computer science, with a specialization in software engineering. Awesome! I graduated magna cum laude (with an average of 81.52%) and scored 18.5/20 … Continue reading →

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Pulseaudio + BlueZ = Fantastic!

Posted on Saturday May 23, 2009 by Ruben

Often being the subject of rants and critics (often undeserved), Pulseaudio hasn’t won the hearts of everybody yet. But today it has won mine: Getting Pulseaudio to work over Bluetooth was simply a matter of connecting and moving the stream. … Continue reading →

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GUADEC 2008 Review

Posted on Thursday July 17, 2008 by Ruben

Am currently flying back from Istanbul to Brussels, with an in-between stop in München. Looking over the fluffy clouds beneath me, I wrote down some of my thoughts on the latest GUADEC: It was my first GUADEC, so I cannot … Continue reading →

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Istanbul

Posted on Saturday July 12, 2008 by Ruben

A really great GUADEC just ended. I will post my thoughts later, when I get back home. For now however, I have some images to start dreaming. Posted while drinking a nice cup of tea on top of our hotel. … Continue reading →

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