Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

Monday 20 June 2005

Fall in Québec - Picture of the day, June 20th 2005

Last fall, we went to Mont Saint-Bruno, south on Montréal, Québec for some shutterbugging. I already blogged about that, but I went thru the whole set of pictures to post a gallery. This is from October 16th, 2004.

RAW file momentum

Is said Nat and Larry Ewing, they plan to support RAW files.

Hey guys, do you mind joining my effort ? I currently have a request for a new project at Freedesktop.org, and I'm waiting after that to start have a common work. But if you have any other hosting solution (not sourceforhe please), you're welcome.

BTW, if you want Sigma XF3 files, there are plenty linked from there. I'm currently starting collecting them as well.

Cool GNOME software: Roadster

While reading Steven Garrity weblogs, I found a post about some cool software being developed for Linux: Roadster. Nothing really innovating as it is just a Free Software version of existing mapping software, but AFAIK it is the first Free Software of that kind. The only issue is that it only covers the USA, because they use the freely available Census Bureau datafiles. Anyone know about any other set of freely available map files ?

About open formats

Steven Garrity has a 3 parts article about open formats and that catch-22 situation:

Really interesting reading if you ask yourself some questions about Ogg, Jabber or why one shouldn't use MS Office formats.

Update: dom has posted corrections of the office formats article (Part 3). I agree with his corrections, in fact I knew about them, I just thought that the original article with presenting things good enough. So for accuracy, I also link to dom's.