Canada is great!
Really, Canada is great! I really like Ottawa. The people have a great sense of humor. The girls and guys are dressed stylishly. I really can’t stand that whole bagging on Canadians that Americans do sometimes with jokes about “A” and “Sorry.”
Jim Gettys gave a nice high level overview of the problems with the “1″ problem in computers. For example, PC = personal computer, focusing on the individual user. His research at HP focuses on how to make computers more collaborative, etc.
Keith Packard’s talk also went quite well. He has a great presentaiton demeanor and tip my hat to him.
It would be cool if someone would setup a CafePress store for Inkscape and Open Clip Art Library like Keith Packard’s freedesktop.org one. What would be really cool is to get some shirts made so we could hand some out at conferences. I think better to give away rather than charge.
I want to write more papers!
Josh Andler from Inkscape has been studying ways that Inkscape can add better color selection inside Inkscape. By this I mean stylistic choices like:
I don’t like the music of Black Eyed Peas. I think its weak. But their lead singer is pretty but it appears as if she has had massive plastic surgery.
I like your idea about Cafe Press stores, we should pursue this. I have toyed myself in the past a couple of times with Cafe Press and I think I can say a couple of words about it.
For example, last week I was involved in the creation of http://www.cafepress.com/oooauthors.
Do not expect such a store to bring signifiant fundings, but may be useful even if it is used only by the members of the project to produce their own shirts, this was the reason why OOoAuthors choosed to not make any profits and sell at the lowest possible price.
An alternative to Cafe Press could be /www.spreadshirt.net, which is based in Europe. What I like to spreadshirt is that they offer various colors, including black, not only white as Cafe Press.
Unfortunately for me, is not very convenient to buy either from USA (Cafe Press) not from EU (Spreadshirt) because of high transport prices (the best option for me is to use a local shop).
As for the person which should setup the store, if it is for profit, then he should be a person living in US, because this is the simplest way to handle the money.
PS: something is broken on your blog, the articles are correclty used by Planet, but can’t be readed on your site, one should have to manually add “wordpress/” in the URL
Comment by Nicu — July 21, 2005 @ 1:50 am
Yeah, I have no interest in profit. Only in spreading the word! Did you help set these up? We should just setup both, right?
Comment by jon — July 24, 2005 @ 3:23 pm
Instead of this, why not use http://www.spreadshirt.com ? They offer extremely easy to use designer program that will just knock you off your feet – just combine it with extremely high quality of products and you can have the t-shirts and other apparel you ever wanted in a matter of minutes. You can open your shop for free and sell your designs to others, they take care of everything – you receive your checks. It’s extremely easy, check it out.
Comment by Bartek — July 29, 2005 @ 10:06 am