Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

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24 Jan 2010, 10:06 a.m.

Upcoming FOSDEM & UK Travel

I'm going to FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting, the first weekend in February. (Something like twenty of my Collabora colleagues will be there, including some I've never met before.) I've …

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14 Jan 2010, 14:49 p.m.

Some Recent Collabora Open Source Development

Has it been three months since I provided a snapshot of Collaborans' open source work? Too long! Here's a taste of our work from the end of 2009 & the start of this year (and …

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19 Dec 2009, 18:54 p.m.

Everything I Knew (About Battery Care) Was Wrong

Today I learned that I've been working from an obsolete understanding of how to keep my cellphone and laptop batteries from losing gobs of capacity over time. A simplistic summary follows for your benefit. The …

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23 Nov 2009, 17:03 p.m.

Can't Play Tour Guide Without A Map

GNOME Journal just published my Telepathy overview, and my colleague Danielle Madeley's "Telepathy, Empathy and Mission Control 5 in GNOME 2.28". I'm not a developer, but I can at least help create accessible documentation. Telepathy …

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10 Nov 2009, 12:26 p.m.

Here It Comes

The Queen has approved Leonard's dependent partner's visa, so it's now official: in about a month, we'll be moving to Cambridge, England, so I can work side-by-side with colleagues at Collabora headquarters. Many more details …

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20 Oct 2009, 17:51 p.m.

Collabora Open Source Development Overview, 4-20 October 2009

Collabora, my company, does open source development. We don't just build on top of open source frameworks; every day, Collabora developers are hacking in the open on multiple projects. I decided to blog about some …

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08 Oct 2009, 23:44 p.m.

An Oversimplified Cliffs Notes To Telepathy

Lots of people have never heard of my company or its projects -- even fairly plugged-in geeks often say "who?" or say "Oh yeah, the Subversion people." (No, that's Collabnet, where Leonard used to work.) …

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25 Sep 2009, 8:49 a.m.

We Already Know The Title Of His Management Tips Book

I used to watch Project Runway identifying with the contestants. Now I watch and think, "Tim Gunn is really good at phrasing criticism in a way that's likely to get across to the designer. I …

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08 Sep 2009, 11:24 a.m.

Three Great Marketing Moves

Leonard and I attended a preview screening of the Coen Brothers' film The Man Who Wasn't There and got a promotional comb. We still have and use it, several moves later. I was chary of …

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03 Sep 2009, 17:30 p.m.

First

I'm in Boston for a couple of days, co-working with my colleague Andres Salomon, a.k.a. dilinger. He's been hacking on oFono on Collabora's dime, and last night's 0.4 release included work by Andres to add …

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