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This past weekend I was in Boston. Adam, Flav, Jorge and I were there for the summit, but we added up going there a day early, because that Friday it was my birthday and what batter way to get old then to go bar hopping in Boston. That Friday we were joined by our friends Cindy and Ken who where just finishing of the their east cost tour for their honeymoon. And, by some strange force of the universe that pulled us together almost in a random sort of way we meet up in Boston that Friday.

On Friday we were planing to see the whales, but it wasn’t in our cards, the whale tours were closed that day due to the winds that loomed over the ocean. So instead we went to the aquarium (which was rather fun), and then bar hopped, smoked cigars and had a cute waitress with a Irish accent. It was awesome!

Then came the summit, I’ve finally meet a number of awesome people including Jdub, Miguel, Dave Camp, Joe Shaw (and numerous other good people). Went to a bunch of cool sessions including the banshee, tomboy, gvfs, xrandr++ and also random hack sessions.

Having the opportunity to see the things coming down the pipe for gnome, let me tell you this: I’ve have seen the future and it’s looking mighty fine. xrand+++ hawtness was demoed, new f-spot organization plug-in (think graphical boolean searches), hula (Jorge was excited about this, I thought he was going to run up to Dave Camp and hump his leg).

We got work done, Adam created a whole entire banshee plug-in that fetches lyrics from the artists via telepathic challes (he says it’s multiple lyrics sources with fall back, but i think there is some voodoo involved). The plug-in works better then the one’s i’ve tried before (the rhythmbox one). After that’s done, he has some other secret hax0red apps lined up, which I can’t tell you about.

I worked on drapes, notably I’ve worked on a multithreaded metadata loader that will drapes responsive when you have collections of over a 1,000 wallpapers present (the app is responsive, but it takes a long time to import that collection). Jdub seamed impressed. Up next is a rss feed support, avahi support and a gui redesign.

This was my first summit, and now I can tell you that it won’t be my last.

Too bad I forgot the camera.