Day: July 3, 2006

During the GUADEC week I had to explain a few times why you pronounce tinymail as tinniemail rather than the English taainymail. The reason is of course obvious: because that is also how you pronounce my girlfriends name, Tinne.

Maybe are some GUADIANS now curious about who this Tinne person is? After all, she’s the reason why all you guys have to pronounce tinymail as tinniemail.

So on these photos you can see miss Tinne saying “Telepathy rocks, because they picked both a name and logo that doesn’t sound nor look geeky”. Which basically translates to “I like this T-shirt, now it’s mine!”. Thanks Rob Taylor! You made my Tinne happy with it. And I gained a few more credits for being a good boyfriend. Well, actually the deal was that I could go to GUADEC, if I would bring a cute penguin teddy bear. But since those aren’t sold at GUADEC, I had to come back with these T-shirts.

Thank you Telepathy guys for being smart enough to make the logo and name girl-friendly!

It certainly looked like a lot people, companies and organizations are interested in tinymail. Among them are Nokia and OLPC. Some talks between Nokia and Collabora for making the Python language bindings of tinymail kick ass are happening. I talked with Christopher Blizzard and Jim Gettys about tinymail on the OLPC laptop. They where very interested. Especially if there’s going to be Python bindings (I guess that way they can do prototyping and experiments more easily). Nokia is of course also extremely interested. Meeting them and the GPE guys working on Modest was a great experience.

This blog entry would be multiple pages in length if I would discuss all the meetings, discussions and talks I did. So I’m going to skip that. I’d like to thank GNOME and whoever was responsible for what happened at GUADEC. It was great. We GNOME people did great. We did so much social networking. This social networking is going to be the reason of so many GNOME developments. Incredible.

Thanks to Luis for making his great statement: GNOME is people

Oh, one very nice technology company that I’d like to link to: Polymer Vision. Check it out, their stuff is nice.