At Linux.conf.au 2014 in Perth, I gave a talk about the “scopes” system I had worked on at Canonical as part of the Unity API team. Scopes were pluggable search providers for the Unity dash. A future version of the framework drove the launcher on Ubuntu Phone.

I've just got through the first one and a half days of LCA2011 in Brisbane. The organisers have done a great job, especially considering the flooding they have had to deal with. Due to the venue change the accommodation I booked is no longer within walking distance of the conference, but the public transport is pretty good. A bit more concerning was the following change to the wiki made between the time I left Perth and the time I checked in:

Today was the first day of the mini-conferences that lead up to linux.conf.au later on this week. I arrived yesterday after an eventful flight from Perth. I was originally meant to fly out to Melbourne on the red eye leaving on Friday at 11:35pm, but just before I checked in they announced that the flight had been delayed until 4:00am the following day. As I hadn't had a chance to check in, I was able to get a pair of taxi vouchers to get home and back.

At Linux.conf.au 2004 in Adelaide, I gave a talk about controlling GNOME applications from Python via the accessibility framework.

I gave a talk at Linux.conf.au 2003 about the experimental “EggMenu” framework I had been working on. This code was eventually merged into GTK 2.4 as GtkUIManager.