FOSSLC Panels and Me
Thursday, 16 April 2009
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I’ve been extraordinarily fortunate recently to be invited to participate in two panels presented by FOSSLC and hosted by the University of Toronto.
The first panel, held on the 31st of March, was about participating in the Google Summer of Code and my experiences as a mentor. With me on the panel were Diego Novillo who works at Google on GCC; Blake Winton (@bwinton) who mentored for DrProject; Nelson Ko who mentored for Tiki Wiki; and Behdad Esfahbod (@behdadesfahbod)who was in different years a student for, a mentor for, and an organizer for the GNOME Foundation. It was a lively and informative panel, and I think a lot of interesting things were said.
The second panel is what FOSSLC calls a “Leaders panel discussion”, taking place next Wednesday, the 23rd of April. I’m going to be participating with some fascinating people (not everyone is yet listed on the page) and I’m looking forward to it. The questions haven’t been decided yet, but I think that there will be interesting things said.
Mac Recipe Management Programs, Planning a Revisit
Sunday, 12 April 2009
Posted by austin in: Personal, Recipes, add a comment
Mostly through a couple of bundles that I’ve purchased recently, I have acquired full licences to Acacia Tree Software’s SousChef and MacGourmet Deluxe (which is, remember, MacGourmet with all of the plug-ins included).
One thing which I mentioned in the last review for MacGourmet is that it failed to import my data from Yum 2.7.4 due to a change in the XML format by the new owners of Yum. This has, as promised, been fixed. I imported my database without problems.
SousChef, I’m happy to report, can now import from MacGourmet databases. It’s not quite the direct import that I’d like, but I have now imported my Yum database into SousChef via MacGourmet.
This leaves Yum 3.0, which I have purchased. These, to me, are the best three recipe management programs in the Mac world. I know some people love YummySoup!, but as I said in my last review, I’ve never been able to warm to YummySoup!, which is too bad because it looks nice otherwise.
I’m going to be living with these recipe programs for a while and do some serious evaluation of all three. This will take a while to do, because we’re preparing to move house at the end of May and we’ve already started packing. Bon Appetit!
