This is a public announcement to everyone who have seen the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver: Canada is still inhabited by French speakers.
After touring FOSS events all around the world, I decided to see what’s happening on the local software scene. I met with the guys from Montreal-Python, the Ubuntu Québec local team guys (after all Montréal is the home of Canonical’s Global Support Services) and the local start-ups at DemoCamp.
C’est maintenant une tradition établie pour les réveillons de Noël du côté de ma mère: on se rassemble tous pour un bon repas de mets traditionnels, on échange les cadeaux et on joue à un jeu. Mais pas n’importe quel jeu, un jeu fait maison créé pour cette occasion unique. Par exemple, ces 2 dernières années nous avons joué à une version de Serpent et échelles géante et une adaptation du Banquier.
It’s now an established tradition at my mother’s Christmas Eve party, we all gather for a good meal, exchange gifts and then play a game. Not any game, an home made game built for this occasion only. For example, in the last 2 years, we played a giant Snakes and ladders game on my mom’s wall and an adaptation of Deal or No Deal. During the game, each player wins little gifts.
In order to help people, free and widely available maps are a good tool to rescue parties. Many users of OpenStreetMap have organized a wiki page to manage the work that needs to be done to quickly improve OpenStreetMap for this part of the world. Thankfully, Yahoo has high resolution imagery of the region making it possible to trace the streets. Note: remember that only Yahoo imagery can be used, as OpenStreetMap has a signed derivative work permission with Yahoo.
Well, I finaly got my hands on a N900 (given as a Christmas gift by Collabora to Gabriel). This gave me the occasion to observe first hand that the Ovi Maps, while having a lot of features, is slow and that the Hildon Emerillon port is less than perfect. It is hard to use with fingers and feels alien to the platform.
