Tiago Sousa and Om Maciel recently blogged about many of Geany’s great features. Geany is a cool, lightweight text editor especially configured to edit program files. I have been using Gedit as my IDE for learning python but now I’ve switched. Geany handles quite a number of file types.

Geany has a three pane layout with document tree and symbols on the left the main editor on the right and across the bottom is a panel that contains a terminal, messages, a notes area called “Scribble” and a compiler window. This sounds cluttered but its UI is elegant and is clean and intuitive. I’ll soon be trying Geany out editing some Docbook file for the Ubuntu Documentation Team.

For the first time since we moved here, we have a nesting pair of Western Bluebirds around. We are not sure where they are nesting because we’ve seen them hanging around a couple of different nesting boxes we have up. The pictures above are of the male. His concubine is around. They are surprisingly approachable. More photo to follow.

Our LoCo Team - Ubuntu-PNW - participated in the annual LinuxFest NorthWest in Bellingham Washington this last weekend. We gave out over 400 iso CDs, tons of brochures, stickers and business cards. Ours was a busy table. Overwhelming at times.

Our  Loco Team covers a large geographical area (Washington, Oregon and Northern Idaho) so we don’t get to meet up much. I have pictures but as the photographer, I don’t have any with me in them. Thanks Dan for organizing this and Walter, Paul (on the left) and Ahmed for the great time.

A team of programmers was at LinuxFest from Oregon State University and they had with them 3 of the ‘One Laptop Per Child’ units for demo. We got to try out the Sugar interface and see working models. Very cool. Warning - do not look directly into the camera lens or you may fall into the proverbial rabbits hole!??!

The Coolest Looking Laptop Ever!
SUSE on Dell
WOW