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Pe data de 14 IUNIE in Bucuresti se va organiza intalnirea de 10 ani a pasionaţilor de Firefox. Pentru cine a fost prezent in ultimii ani, deja stie cum va fi, pentru cei care nu au avut ocazia, sunt invitati la Universitate, teatrul National, La Motoare la ora 20. Mai multe detalii despre reuniune gasiti la http://mozillaparty.com/en-US/events/view/80

Update
Intalnirea o sa aiba loc pe 28 IUNIE.

Ok so this is my first interview so please be gentile :).
For those of you that don't know Exaile is the default music player in the yet to be released Xfce version of Foresight Linux.

Alexandru: ok. first question. So tell me a bit about yourself. (this
isn't really a question no ? :)) but we have to start the "interview"
somehow)
Adam: Well, my name is Adam Olsen. I grew up in Utah and have lived
here my entire life. I currently work as a programmer and sysadmin for
a greeting card company called SendOutCards.com (who knew that a
greeting card company needed programmers?)
I've been programming professionally for about 10 years.
I've also been using Linux for about that long

Alexandru: How did you decide to start the Exaile Project ?
Adam: I was using Amarok on Gnome a little more than two years ago. It
crashed ALL the time, and not only did it crash, when it did, it tried
to launch the KDE reporting tool, which I didn't have installed.

Alexandru: Any particular reason on choosing python / pygtk ?
Adam: About this time my friends were talking about how cool Python
is. I've found that if you want to learn a language, jumping right and
creating something you might actually use is a great way to do it.

Alexandru: What are your future plans for exaile ? I've seen that you
plan a rewrite for it in the 0.3 version.
Adam: Well, right there is the downside of actually writing an entire
project while learning a programming language. There are a lot of
things that could have been done better. Exaile 0.3.0 will be almost
an entire rewrite. In the current version of Exaile, I basically wrote
the core myself. In 0.3.0, it will incorporate ideas from other
developers as well.

Alexandru: Ok one more question. Do you plan on keeping the current
.glade templating system ? It is imho one of the best features right
now.
Adam: Yes. Glade not only allows for custom "themes" (or different
glade files), but it makes coding dialogs and gui elements a lot
easier.

Alexandru: Great. Thanks for your time Adam.