rejon is Jon Phillips.

I want to be able to set my presence (or ideally have my computer figure this out with idle time, image analysis with camera, amplitude detection with mic/sound, etc) and have all apps across my free desktop on gnome or xfce react accordingly so I don’t have to set this in each application.

I also would like for my computer to know when the networking is unavailable and react accordingly. Yes, I know that the right way to do this is dbus, galago and support of applications for the right messages.

My question is, is there an applet to set this presence and/or is there a quick way to get this going generically and bonus points if good way(s) in gentoo?

• OpenCongress
  This is a great interface to how the US legislature works and gives you many features us web ppl. expect.
  (tags: blog government interesting internet news opencontent web ajax web2.0)

I’m not giving preferential treatment to anybody, and, I’m not the only one selecting my intern. So, make those application bulletproof. Anyway, please apply if you want to come work with CC (and me) this summer:

That’s right! Students, get your applications in before the end of the day on March 1 (which means PST for us in San Francisco reviewing applications).

As we announced before, we are picking one intern to help our tech team and another to help us with creating media and building up our community. If you want to spend the summer building the commons, living in San Francisco, and generally plugging into one of the most dynamic social networks offline in SF and on-line on the web, then please apply.

For both internships, there are several projects to work on. A good place to look is at our Labs demo/test site and Developer Challenges to get your heart beating faster. Then, for Media+Community internships, there will be some great work on some media-based (part-technical) projects like OLPC and FreeCulture.org.