tlug: [report] gnome bof

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen <jens-ulrik.petersen@example.com>]

I managed to make the Gnome bof today at MRI (Mitsubishi Soken) [nice
rooms they have there incidently], here are my impressions.  Questions 
welcome.

First Niibe San introduced the meeting.  Then a young Japanese guy (a
developer at Kondera(?), a new Japanese distribution) demonstrated the
(old) Gnome from RH60 in a Japanese localization (l10n).  Then Havoc
Pennington (now working at Redhat Labs) gave his presentation
including demonstrating the latest Gnome (October Gnome).  I liked his
Magicpoint slides too (puts powerpoint to shame, though it's not a
gnome application).  He mentioned a number of new projects, a number
of which will become the Gnome office suite: of course gnumeric the
gnome spreadsheets (the devel version supports embeddable objects),
Dia a diagram making too, Abiword (not actually a Gnome effort, but
maybe it's compliant?).  Also nice to see Havoc using sawmill the X
window manager that I mentioned here recently: he seems it's the best
integrated wm with gnome: in particular the configuration tool is
integrated with the gnome control center.  There was a number of
questions, and after a break unrelated to gnome Morioka San explained
about the UTF-2000 project basically some multilingual unicode support
for XEmacs 21 (available at patches).

It was nice to meet Manuel Chakravarty (ETL) there and Steve Baur
was also present.

Cheers, Jens
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