Base-Art - Elisa

Elisa and Telepathy: experimenting with Elisa users socialization

Philippe Normand — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:07:50 +0100

Last weekend I started playing with Telepathy and its tubes in Elisa. What I prototyped is two plugins:

a Telepathy plugin able to:
- join a Multi-User Chatroom (over local-xmpp or standard Jabber)
- share a set of DBus Tubes in that room
- connect to other Tubes shared in the room and …

Elisa weekly (not that weekly) news #6

Philippe Normand — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:57:33 +0100

Hey been a while since last shot of Elisa news… Be not disapointed, much is happening! Let’s see…

The whole team is firing up to cook an Elisa release candidate for tomorrow and final release should happen end of next week. What’s new? The plugin management framework entered …

Elisa weekly news #5

Philippe Normand — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:54:04 +0100

Welcome to this new edition of Elisa weekly news. I’m not very regular on the timetable, but yet haven’t reached the 3-weeks limit! :)

So what happened since last week? First off we’ve got Huge feedback from the release, good press coverage so far, especially an article on …

Reinteracting with Pigment

Philippe Normand — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:45:13 +0100

ReInteract is a nice tool, I thought it could be a good idea to make a Pigment extension for it.

Repgm allows the reinteract user to integrate a Pigment canvas inside Reinteract, as shown in the screenshot below:

I’d have a made a screencast but my laptop would have …

Elisa weekly news #4

Philippe Normand — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:35:46 +0100

Heh no news since 2007 fall, something went wrong! In fact it was due to holidays, work overload and some unintended days off I had to take. Anyway, sorry about that, let’s move onto EWN #4!

So, since christmas the Elisa team achieved good work, polishing Elisa and Pigment …

Elisa weekly news #3

Philippe Normand — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:54:26 +0100

During this pre-holiday week the Elisa team has been busy working on the new user-interface…

Florian hunted a bunch of memory leaks in the MVC and Observer/Observable frameworks. He also found some inside Pigment. This will lead us to a lighter (memory wise) Elisa application. Christophe is hidden below …

Elisa weekly news #2

Philippe Normand — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:31:37 +0100

Welcome to this second edition of the Elisa weekly news :) So what have the Elisa team been up to this week?

Florian and I continued on the new frontend. It is in better shape, more usable, a bit less buggy but still has some memory management issues. The vertical list …

Elisa weekly news #1

Philippe Normand — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:46:31 +0100

This is the first post on Elisa news, I’ll try to make one per week and cross-post it on the mailing list too. So, what’s going on these days in Elisa world? Let’s see… :)

Florian, Christophe and I are currently working on a new user-interface (yeah yet …

Elisa at GUADEC

Philippe Normand — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:40:50 +0200

So I attended GUADEC for the second time… Was quite nice, interesting talks about the GNOME desktop, Online, or not. It was also good to see people I often discuss with on IRC, Jabber or by mail :)

The Elisa talk went fine, but afterwards many people kept asking about our …

Pigment needs testers

Philippe Normand — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:39:46 +0100

Our C/GObject/Python rendering/animation framework bling engine behind Elisa is progressing and getting better after each Loic’s commit. And so we need people to actually give it a try and help us to fill the GPU list support page to be able to fix potential issues and …

Elisa 0.1.0

Philippe Normand — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:19:07 +0100

It’s been 4 months since the first alpha release of Elisa, the Python/GStreamer/OpenGL MediaCenter developped by Fluendo. It was time for a fresh release :)

Since GUADEC we’ve been working on separating the rendering, widget and animation frameworks in a separate project named Pigment. It’s hard …

Elisa, first alpha release!

Philippe Normand — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:00:12 +0200

After nearly 4 months of active development, the first alpha release of Elisa pops up in the intraweb. This is a MediaCenter application developed in Python using technologies like Twisted for networking and loop, OpenGL for rendering and GStreamer for multimedia playback. The project is funded by Fluendo.

If you …

Back from Guadec

Philippe Normand — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:43:32 +0200

So Guadec 2006 was a great event! I met lot of nice people, we really had fun. And by the way, life in Spain seems pretty cool :) The last event i participated was the Python/Gstreamer/… Hackfest organized by Edward Hervey (i think). It was really nice, we had some …

Guadec 2006

Philippe Normand — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:21:52 +0200

Blogging from Guadec :) We’re spending a great time here at Vilanova! I finally met the co-workers from Fluendo Barcelona, very cool people. My lightning talk about Elisa went quite well, people seemed impressed, we are demoing our Python/Gstreamer/Twisted/OpenGL MediaCenter at the Fluendo booth.

Fluendo party monday …