The Boston Hackfest
The GNOME and Mono Festival of Love was a blast! I finally met Bertrand and Aaron -- my fellow Banshee co-maintainers; as well as a lot of GNOME and Mono people. I also met Udesh, the SoC student I'm mentoring this year, who is working on voice control in Banshee.
I reviewed and committed a bunch of (mostly long overdue) patches in Banshee and taglib-sharp, and released a new version of the latter. We also discussed with Udesh his project and went through some technicalities.
I want to thank David for organising the event, GNOME Foundation for covering my plane tickets and our sponsors for making it happen:
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