Wednesday, June 30, 2010

June

June 18th was my last day at Red Hat.

I spent last week road-tripping to Eastern Canada with my friends.

In a couple of weeks I will start working for Google Canada in the Waterloo office. I will be working for a large part on HarfBuzz as part of the Chrome / ChromeOS team.

Unfortunately the setup also means that I have to skip this year's GUADEC as I can't get a visa on time :(.

I will keep my current GNOME duties, namely maintaining the text stack (fribidi, fontconfig, harfbuzz, pango, etc) as well as vte. The break may give me some time hacking on things I couldn't get the time to hack on before even. We'll see.

That's all for June.
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15 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 01, 2010 12:36 AM

    More webkit hackers, great! :). Spread that love to the gtk port too.

    Best of luck in your new job.

    diegoe

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  2. AnonymousJuly 01, 2010 12:37 AM

    s/hackers/hacking/ to be more precise.

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  3. SankarJuly 01, 2010 12:58 AM

    Al the best for your new job

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  4. امیرJuly 01, 2010 2:00 AM

    Good luck with new job.

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  5. AnonymousJuly 01, 2010 3:23 AM

    Congrats! I only know a few of the Chrome / Chrome OS guys but they're all really awesome.

    Also, they all keep muttering about text rendering on Linux so you'll have your work cut out for you...

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  6. Pádraig BradyJuly 01, 2010 7:58 AM

    Congrats on the new job!
    Congrats to Google too.

    I've added you to the list of Google Open Source stars

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  7. clavicymbelJuly 01, 2010 8:02 AM

    Will this stuff be possible on Chromi too?

    http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/font-control-for-designers/

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  8. jorgeJuly 01, 2010 8:53 AM

    Good luck behdad!

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  9. SandyJuly 01, 2010 8:55 AM

    Congrats and best of luck, Behdad!

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  10. AnonymousJuly 01, 2010 9:38 AM

    Congrats, Behdad!

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  11. AnonymousJuly 01, 2010 10:43 AM

    It would make me so happy if you got the chrome guys to support the lcdfilter parameter in fonts.conf

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  12. Dave NearyJuly 01, 2010 11:28 AM

    Goodbye Behdad! It's been nice having you around GNOME, I am sure you'll do very well in Google.

    It's not that I don't trust you, but hackers going to Google have a long history of dropping off the planet (or almost).

    I wish you all the best!

    Cheers,
    Dave.

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  13. behdadJuly 05, 2010 7:50 PM

    Thank you everyone.

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  14. StormyJuly 06, 2010 12:27 PM

    Congratulations on the new job! I'm sorry we'll miss you at GUADEC.

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  15. AnonymousJuly 28, 2010 5:34 PM

    congrad on the new job. Hope proper RTL rendering for persian/arabic gets some spot in the official release line of android production releases soon...

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