Fishbowl Sessions

This morning I attended a session on burnout. It was different to usual sessions in that the table has been removed from the room and the chairs were arranged in such a way that there is an inner circle and an outer circle. People who are more interested in the topic sit in the inner circle and people who are interested in keeping up to date or who might contribute more casually sit in the outer circle. This experiment is called fishbowl sessions, it’s happening with all the sessions in room 11 today.

Burn Out

We had a really good discussion about burn-out, what causes it, coping mechanisms and how to avoid it.

This is some of the things that were mentioned:

This week there’s been lots of interest in Moblin at the Ubuntu Developer Summit. It surely is very shiny and flashy, and I’m sure it will make a big impact on the mobile world when it is ready for mass consumption.

According to Engadget, Linpus Linux, which is distributed on Acer Aspire One netbooks, is working on a Moblin desktop for netbooks. I would actually expect Ubuntu do be the first distribution to do this, but from what I heard Moblin is really just not ready yet. Perhaps something to consider in the Karmic+1 release cycle?

These are just some points I took down during todays session at the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Better notes may be available by the time you read this via Gobby on the gobby.ubuntu.com server.

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