I started directly with day 2 as I arrived Sunday in Dublin.

London-Heathrow aiport is definitely an airport to be avoided: very long lines to get you connection, going through security, etc. I envisionned much worse than it was, like being required to check-in my backpack (that contains only camera and laptop).

Trinity College is still like it was back in 2003 when I was at Guadec.

I attended the presentation by Kitware about CMake and Dart. CMake is a replacement to Automake that KDE now use for KDE4. I must say that I'm somewhat impressed: from scratch it took me 30 minutes to make a CMake build system for libopenraw (don't look for it yet, it is in my local bzr branch). Dart is a system that provide a view of the state of your project: how it builds (tinderbox), how it runs its tests, etc. I think both would make sense for AbiWord: we need to have one cross-platform build system (we currently have 3: automake, plain make for win32, xcode-based for Mac[1]), and we need to have a better vision of the current state of the code (we used to have a tinderbox running at one point).

Notes

[1] and that is a big mistake