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Contributing to a large OS project (OpenStack) means to jump through a lot of hoops to get the necessary agreements in place and tools installed. OpenStack uses Gerrit for code reviews, and recommends to use git-review for easier review workflow. The installation is explained in the documentation and it could be as easy as: sudo pip install git-review However that didn’t work for me - I was stuck with: ~ ⮀ git review git: 'review' is not a git command. ...

My good friend Daniel Frei is embarking on several new exciting projects. One of them is Mikropolis, a “live polit no show” social media political discussion event. Daniela asked me and Dragica Kahlina to come up with some jingles for the show. This has in turn expanded into a live happening with Dragica and me playing live on May 15th and 22nd. I have made some first sketches and yesterday and today worked on a “bigger” soundscape: ...

As I am slowly winding down the 100 blog posts, another brave soul has started a 61 days blog marathon - but with much longer and more useful blog posts than mine have been. If you are interested in home recording, then be sure to check out Michael Hollands “Wiggly Toe Music” and his “Recording at home” series. He’s on day 2, has good content and there is a bunch more in the pipeline…

The last 10 days of the blogging challenge… Not much to say, really, I have been busy making music and enjoying the day off today.

Happy birthday to my wonderful wife - she turned 50 today. Time flies, we grow older, wiser or foolisher, learn to live and love again, now that our kids are starting to grow up. Thanks for the many years with you, hope we will be able to celebrate many more birthdays together!

(Yes, gentle reader, I missed a post yesterday - again! As these 100 days draw to a close, I find it more and more difficult to bring up the necessary quiet time to sit down and write and also I don’t have the urge anymore to write something while totally tired and bleary eyed… It is going to be interesting to see, what cadence in blogging I will reach when in 12 days, when the experiment has ended…) ...