Right I’ve now had a week to recover from LRL and to internalise some of it.
Good Points:
A plethora of informative and entertaining talks. Too damn many in fact. I missed quite a few I wanted to talk to see due to scheduling conflicts.
My talk went quite well, although being scheduled against Bruno and Simon Phipps was a bit of a bugger. I can’t wait for the video of Bruno’s talk to be released.
Talked to a researcher from Coventry who was interested in the whole concept of Grid data repositories so something useful from a work stand-point may come out of it.
Dinner at some wetherspoons pub with a random bunch of (very nice) geeks a bumped into on saturday night.
The very nice beer called Titanic that they were serving in the afore-mentioned pub.
Bad Points
Completely failing to talk to any of the #lugradio regulars.
It was too damn hot.
Spending the whole of saturday in a complete haze due to talk anxiety.
Onwards..
Talked to a researcher from Coventry who was interested in the whole concept of Grid data repositories so something useful from a work stand-point may come out of it.
Met a chap from Southampton who was familiar with the OMII project and of course completely failed to get his email address. In the unlikely event that this is you, could you send me an email please?
After seeing Christian Schaller’s GStreamer talk I’ve spent all day looking at the python gstreamer bindings and have gotten as far as writing a noddy media player that prints out any metadata it finds in the media. Now I just have to work out how to re-write the metadata and I should be able to completely replace the tagging infrastructure in Peapod with a better version using gstreamer.