Sitting in the business center of the Beach Class Suites hotel trying to fix some strange bugs in ecore-native. In a couple of hours I'm leaving to the airport, travelling back to Frankfurt, Germany. This week in Brazil has been an amazing experience, especially the friendly guys at the INdT. There's a spirit of freedom and creativity hanging over the whole installation and it's not surprising at all that the results just rock. One of the key elements of successful software products is the communication between designers and developers -- and they got this one completely right.
The Mamona team worked on an own branch of OpenEmbedded for quite a while now and we had a lot of diffs to go through. We started with merging EFL and Python since these are also important for Openmoko. We now have granted Vivi commit access and Aloisio will be on board soon as well maintaining some of the recipes upstream at org.openembedded.dev. By that we reduce further divergence and improve collaboration.
Although we did work most of the time, we also had the chance to hang around a bit together in the after hours, watching soccer, playing table-tennis, table-soccer, pool, etc. We even spent a couple of hours playing guitar and singing along -- that was real fun. Thanks a lot guys, I really felt welcome! And yes, I'm trying to come back later this year, preferably when it gets cold and windy in Germany ;)