Peter Vandenabeele

Opendocsociety geeft Startschot in Vlaanderen (Gent, 14 november 2007)

Update: verslag van IT professional.

Open standards and open source in Portugal

Last week, I attended the 2nd Free Sofware in the Public Administration Meeting (ESLAP 2007) in Lisbon (Portugal). The first day and the morning of the second day where an "open" meeting, where I presented the Belgian ODF story, using the excellent presentation created for Berlin by my director, Peter Strickx. A Portugese journalist picked up the story [English translation below].

Papierberg

De 2 "legal items" waar ik het meest tegenop zag, zijn vertrokken. De aanvraag arbeidsbemiddeling is vorig weekend vertrokken en de aangifte privacycommissie is net gepost. De aanvraag had een 12 tal onderdelen en de behandeling door de Vlaamse administratie kan nog 100 dagen duren.

Hello World on facebook

Triggered by the article in Linux Journal of December 2007, I wrote my first "Hello World" application for facebook. Actually not that difficult, using the Rfacebook plug-in for Ruby on Rails. Installed the Rfacebook plug-in in a Ruby on Rails set-up hosted at home, used dyndns to link back home, pierced a little (?) hole in my firewall and set-up the facebook application to "call home" and use my home server as sort of web service to execute the requests to the application.

jiibe.com - employment culture measured by a social network

Jiibe.com Beta launched mid October 2007.

After asking me true-untrue on these questions about myself and my current employer ...

1) My manager often tells people to stop talking to each other and to get back to working on their own.
2) My manager tries to keep things fresh by making sure I'm not always doing the same thing everyday.
3) I can access training programs to expand my skills and knowledge.
4) I handle each daily challenge in a different way, rather than by following a set process.
5) Managers always talk about keeping customers happy.

First International ODF User Workshop (Berlin)

Update: Presentations online.

Disambiguation of "Peter Vandenabeele"

After resolving too many times the name "Peter Vandenabeele" to persons outside our group of identically named persons, I decided to set-up a disambiguation page about our name on wikipedia. The case that made me do this is where I was asked to review a paper on archeology, I first sent it to the Professor sharing my name at University of Ghent in the Cell biology department, and he then had to forward it to his colleague in Archeology ...

Nederlands actieplan "geeft voorkeur aan open source bij gelijke geschiktheid"

Er moest wat meer FLOSS komen op planet grep, bij deze :-)

Ter zake ... Eerder vandaag 5 uur op de trein gezeten (heen en terug naar
Den Haag), voor de officiële oprichting van de "OpenDoc Society".

LeuvenValley.be - netwerk van professionals in Leuven

Begin oktober 2007 heb ik de "LeuvenValley.be" groep opgericht op LinkedIn. Op dit moment zijn er 34 leden. Het doel is om met mensen die professioneel actief zijn in de Leuvense regio en ook graag op LinkedIn e.d. netwerken, een nauw verweven regionale groep op te bouwen die de verschillende sectoren overspant.

Progress of the Belgian ODF directive and ODF interoperability

My presentation at ODF Camp in Barcelona was just put online (ODF Camp was run in parallel with OO.o conference 2007). It discusses the current status in Belgium regarding the ODF directive, where we see good progress in the interoperability between different applications processing ODF.