9 October 2003

Just landed in Utah for a day of exciting meetings. On the flight over here, I read Fugitives and Refugees, Palahniuk’s personal travel guide for Portland. Which is pretty exciting, because I’m going to be in Portland Friday for Foo Camp.

Sunday I’m going to Bangalore with Dave, Luis and Michael. We will be there for two weeks to build, train and task a large team of hackers to work on GNOME, OpenOffice and Mozilla. More details to come as we spin that team up.

Today was excellent, lots of progress.

We announced the 2nd annual GNOME Summit, to be held in New York at the end of next month. Props to the guys from NYLXS coordinating all this.

Novell is going to be building support for GroupWise messenger, our corporate instant messaging solution, in a Gaim plugin. Gaim will be our Linux client, and the Novell engineers doing the work will be at the summit.

Also attending the summit will be every single Evolution hacker.

We are on-track to have native GroupWise support for mail, calendaring and addressbook shipping in Evolution 2.0.

I am looking to hire a usability engineer at Ximian, to work out of our Boston office. If you want the job, email me.

My USB isn’t working on my new laptop, so no new pictures today. Blech.

I think I’m having the time of my life right now. The other morning I woke up in the MIT fraternity adjacent to the apartment building Miguel and I now live in. I was in one of their spare rooms, sleeping on a mattress on the floor, with an empty wine bottle next to me.

It took me probably a full minute to figure out where I was. For at least 10 seconds, I thought I was in Germany, and was trying to remember when and with whom my first sales call was.

And then I glanced around at the bare mattress and the milk crates and dirt and thought: "This is the worst hotel room I have ever been in."

That’s about when reality set in, and I climbed out onto the roof and up and over to the deck in front of my apartment, scaring the crap out of my sister who happened at that moment to be peacefully staring out the window at the rain, when she saw me tumbling over the wall.