Lots of stuff have been going on around here.  I've been busy with a number of household projects and Jocelyn and Jared continue to grow.

Project-wise I've been busy setting up some home-automation. It's mostly focused on Christmas-y things right now, but I'd like to move it past that.  I finally found some wall switches that will allow me to replace my midi wall switches without converting everything to the paddle-type wall switches so I'm planning on replacing the switches for the outside lights so I can then remotely control them to turn them all on/off at the same time.

I've written a little shell script I'm calling gajim-pinger.  If you use gajim for IM and ping.fm for updating your social networks, this simplifies things by:

I got my rack in working order, moved thor (file server/MythTV backend) out to it (with associated wiring) and got my Comcast Digital receiver hooked up with an iguanaWorks iguanaIR usb IR transceiver.

We also went for a nice walk with the Beecher family down to the creek, enjoying the fall foliage.

Michele Little also came to visit Jared.

Other misc photos:

Updated Warner family Tiff, Jared, and Jocelyn sleeping on the recliner Brenda and Rick's Anniversary Tiff's 28th Birthday Jared visiting w/ the Warners Brooke, Dennis, Brenda, and Brady with Jared Jocelyn with a full pony-tail Jocelyn and Mom looking out the window at a bunny Jocelyn coloring with Pappy Warner Jocelyn painting pumpkins Jocelyn eating popcorn Jocelyn in pigtails and camo Jocelyn sleeping under the changing table

Participants: kinger (Brian King), silfreed (Doug Warner)

Community participants: [none]

Discussion was held publically in #mozdev

Discussed developer priorities

I didn't spend a whole lot of time around Mozdev over the holidays, but things should be picking back up now.

Things I did touch on over the holidays included:

It's been a long time coming, but your requests to speed up the project creation process are coming to fruition.

Over the past couple years there have been two major pain points in setting up new projects: tracking the requests to make sure they're handled properly and actually creating projects (CVS trees and websites, mailing lists and newsgroups, and bugzilla products). We finally have the tools in place to handle tracking the project requests and creating projects which should dramatically increase the response time of setting up new projects.

We still have some work to do; we need to automate setting up Bugzilla products and we'd like to make it easier for existing project owners to get new projects setup, but we're well on our way to making those things happen.