I finally found the time to sort my photos from Vilanova i la Geltrú and Barcelona.

My Windows of Barcelona series:

A few other nice shots:

These are:
1st row: Casa Milà; dito; dito; dito; dito;
2nd row: Palau de la Música Catalana; dito; Mies van der Rohe Pavilion; dito; Vilanova Lighthouse;
3rd row: Sagrada Família; dito; dito; Hospital de Sant Pau; dito;
4th row: Sagrada Família, seen from Sant Pau; City Center/Barri Gòtic; dito; dito; Plaça Reial

A panoramic view of Barcelona photographed from the Montjuic towards the north:

Those "thunderclouds" on the right side of the image are actually a result of not using the same exposure settings on all photos that are part of the panorama. Which is a mistake I didn't repeat with my second panoramic view, which again shows Barcelona from the Montjuic, but this time towards the east:

Dont miss the the entire album!

We're proud to announce the first release of PulseAudio after the name change from Polypaudio. Besides a variety of sed -i -e s/polyp/pulse/g changes it mostly contains minor bugfixes. Get it while it is hot!

In related news PulseAudio now gained its own domain and a new Trac-based homepage: http://pulseaudio.org/. And thanks to Rafael Jannone and Pierre Ossman we now have a logo:

Together with PulseAudio 0.9.2 we released updated versions of all the auxiliary GUI tools. A new utility has been released as well, named PulseAudio Device Chooser. It installs a tray icon and allows the user to quickly change the sound server attached to the local X11 display, showing a list of servers that is accumulated using ZeroConf service browsing. In addition it allows you to quickly start one of the other GUI tools and shows notification whenever a new PulseAudio server/sink/source appears on the network. Everybody loves screenshots:

There has been some confusion about the date of the Sound BOF, since the BOF Wiki said a different date than my blog story of yesterday. To make this clear: the BOF will happen on friday, 4 p.m.

There will be a Linux/Gnome Sound BOF on Friday, 4:00 p.m. I will be there, promoting PulseAudio, as will be Marc-Andre of GSmartMix frame. Everyone interested in the future of audio in Gnome is welcome to join us!

Due to the generosity of the GNOME Foundation I have been able to get to the GUADEC 2006 this year. I'd like to thank Jeff Waugh and Quim Gil for the "last-minute" funding of my trip to Vilanova, and all the sponsors who actually are providing the funds. If anyone wants to talk to me about Avahi and/or PulseAudio (aka Polypaudio) (or any of my other projects), just try to find and speak to me. (Bungalow 870)

In related news, the new PulseAudio homepage will be "inaugurated" soon, becoming the official new home of PulseAudio/Polypaudio as soon as we release 0.9.2, which hopefully will be pretty soon.

It came to our attention that some people really disliked the name of Polypaudio, because it reminded them of that medical condition, though the software was actually named after the sea dweller. I actually liked that double entendre, but many did not and expressed concerns that the name would hinder Polypaudio's adoption. After a long discussion on #polypaudio we came to the conclusion that a name change is a good idea in this case. Name changes are usually a bad idea, but this time it's worth it, we think.

The new name we agreed on is PulseAudio, or shorter just Pulse. It has the nice advantage that it abbreviates to pa, just as Polypaudio did. This allows us to keep source code compatiblity (and binary compatibility to a certain degree) with the current releases of Polypaudio, because the symbol prefix can stay pa_. In addition the auxiliary tools paman, pavucontrol, pavumeter need not to be renamed.

We will try to make the transition as smooth as possible and would like to apologize to all the packagers, who need to rename their packages now.

The next release of Polypaudio (0.9.2) will be a bugfix release and be the first to bear the new name: PulseAudio 0.9.2.

Polypaudio is dead. Long live PulseAudio!

The current issue of the Linux Weekly News features a short article about Polypaudio. (The article is not (yet) accessible for free, come back in a week if you aren't an LWN subscriber.)

Quoting:

With its support for a wide variety of popular audio utilities, actively developed code, and broad capabilities, the Polypaudio project fills an important role in Linux-based audio development.

Another view of the "Dockland" in Hamburg-Altona:

Polypaudio needs a logo! If you have some time to spare and graphic talent please send us your suggestions! Perhaps something in a nice Tango design? See Wikipedia to for an explanation what a polyp is.

Please send your suggestions to lennart (at) poettering (dot) net or join #polypaudio on freenode.

I opened an RFP for Polypaudio 0.9.0 in the Debian BTS. Anyone interested?

Update: We have found a volunteer in Franz Pletz.