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 …

Zaheer found a nice python script that brings Python powered Wiimote support into Xorg via PyBluez. That’s awesome, I will now be able to drive Elisa using that smart device, just need to actually buy one and also a bluetooth dongle ;)

update: Le_K found another python based driver with …

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 …

After Edgy Eft official release, I figured out it might be a good idea to upgrade my laptop running Dapper… Because I didn’t want to spend hours in front of the screen waiting the 800Mb to get downloaded, I did the upgrade remotely via SSH…

Ok i was a …

After nearly 6 months spent living in Lyon, I headed south once more, to Barcelona :) I entered a new flat with 2 other frenchie fellows, we’ll be damn fine there!!

We still have some administrative paper work to do, but it can wait, we did the essential ones.. The …

This evening base-art.net, pythonfr.org and few other hosted domains should be un-available while we migrate websites to a brand new dedicated server. So, fellow readers, don’t be surprised ;-)

Things will come back up this night hopefully. I’m still reachable by mail, phil at base-art dot net …

At work i daily use Trac, it’s a great flexible wiki and issue tracking system. These days we’re editing some documentation files hosted on the subversion repository. Using the Wiki to display them for human eyes is the next step, but how to keep rendered and source versions …

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 …

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 …

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 …