Welcome to LRL09! (Photo Credit Solexious)

Well here we are again, another year, another LugRadio Live. For anyone who has never heard of it, LUGRadio Live is a community conference for supporters of Free and Open Source software.

Some big changes are taking place this year though, as the date had been altered from July to October, the venue has moved to the Newhampton Arts Centre just outside Wolverhampton, and unfortunately the conference is only for one day. Still, these points aside it remains an excellent event. Here’s a quick summary of what went on, and of the talks I attended:

Brock Craft – tinker.it

Brock is from London-based design-studio tinker.it, he spoke about the open-source hacking platform Arduino. Arduino was designed to be a cheap and easy method for learning about electronics and hardware hacking, and as a quick method for building devices. Brock gave examples of its usage by artists, designers and hobbyists, and it certainly seems like it could have many ingenious uses, including the RFID cat flap which Brock had built for his own feline friend.

Gervase Markham – Mozilla Drumbeat/BBC Basic

Gerv spoke firstly about Mozilla Drumbeat, which is essentially a grass roots campaign to keep the web completely open to all. Gerv mentioned net neutrality, the mobile web, and closed application stores such as the Apple app store as examples of threats to the web. The project’s motto is ‘people, ideas and action for a better internet’ and it’s certainly an admirable aim we should all support! In the spirit of the conference’s ‘back to basics’ theme Gerv then presented his first ever program, written at age 8, a ‘choose your own’ adventure style game written on a BBC Micro. Gerv is a charismatic and engaging speaker, and the presentation raised a few good chuckles from the crowd.

Matthew Somerville – MySociety

Matthew works for MySociety, a registered charity probably best known for their work with the Number 10 petitions website. Matthew spoke about the various projects they have undertaken over the past few years. These include TheyWorkForYou, which can alert users when their MP speaks in Parliament, and holds transcripts of Hansard from 1935 onwards. It has also recently started hosting videos of parliamentary proceedings. Closely related to this is WriteToThem, which allows anyone to contact their MP directly, and HearFromYourMP, which is essentially the opposite.

Matthew also spoke about some projects which are designed to make life easier for people and communities, for example FixMyStreet which allows members of the public to report problems such as potholes and graffiti to their local council quickly and efficiently. MySociety has produced some excellent and easy to use services and hopefully this will continue.

Brock Craft - Tinker.it

Des Burley – A Real Lawyer Speaks

Des works for the independent law firm Martineau, and came to speak about trademarks and licensing in free/open source software. He covered the reasons why people would want to trademark software, what can be covered/protected and the differences between trademarks and copyright. He also spoke about the harm that can be wreaked by patent holders, with the model railway software designed by Jacobsen being a good example.

Andy Robinson – OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a project designed to provide everyone with a complete, open and free mapping facility. I already had a little background info on OpenStreetMap from a talk given at Manchester Free software last year, but it was really interesting to see how far the project has come since it’s conception, and that we might soon reach a point where the information stored in the OSM database is of better quality than that of any mapping company. Andy also gave the interesting example of the work done in OSM to build the first complete and accurate map of the Gaza Strip, which was then being used in the humanitarian relief effort during the Gaza war in January this year.

Steve Lamb – The Changing Face of Work

Steve Works for Microsoft, but don’t let that put you off, honest! Steve has been at loads of the LRL events and always puts forward an excellent talk to present to us freedom-lovers. Steve spoke about giving employees more freedom and flexibility in their use of technology, whilst somehow creating a balance between work and home technology. He quite rightly suggested that it can be counter-productive if an employer forces specific tools or devices onto employees, and there were many excellent points to agree with.

Summary

The Twitterfall

The event was well organised this year, with the main stage featuring three big screens. One featured the presentation slides as they were delivered. One was used by an excellent portrait artist who sketched each speaker as they were on stage using the Gimp and a drawing tablet. The final screen featured a live twitter feed (or ‘twitterfall’), to which any conference attendee could tweet using the #lrl2009 hashtag, all tagged messages then appeared live on-screen. This produced some hilarious moments during and in-between talks, as ASCII drawings and abuse were consistently twittered by the delegates throughout the day. The conference music was excellent as always, with Rage Against the Machine, Paramore, Bowling for Soup, System of a Down and the Offspring all featuring prominently!

During the recording of the live show, the presenters announced that this really was the last LugRadio event, although it was later discussed that if someone else were to arrange the event next year, then the LugRadio presenters agreed to attend to provide another dose of their unique presenting style. So hopefully this won’t be the last we hear from the LugRadio crowd and I’ll be back in Wolverhampton next year!

OggCamp

UbuntuUK & LinuxOutlaws

With LugRadio Live having been cut down to just one day this year, it was obvious that someone would come along to fill the void. OggCamp is an ‘unconference’ (ie: an unorganised conference) where rooms are set aside and anyone can turn up and offer to speak on any free/open source related subject.

The event was held in the Connaught Hotel, around 10 minutes walk from the centre of Wolverhampton. The schedule of talks for the three rooms quickly filled up, and I attended a few fantastic presentations. I attended Tim Dobson’s presentation on his DFEY group, and Bruno Bord’s talk entitled ‘Explaining programming to my grandmother’. Although my favourite was presented by Andy Stanford-Clark with his talk on his ‘Twittering House‘ (as featured on the BBC) which tweets such events as power consumption, windows/doors opening, light/appliances being turned on/off, phones ringing, as well as other useful information about the house.

Unconference Schedule

His most recent addition being an SMS controlled Rudolph light display on his roof. This tied in with other cool little projects Andy had been working on, such as monitoring his local ferry using the ship’s radio frequencies which were then fed into Twitter, and eventually adopted by the ferry company as their live ferry update service, it was very entertaining to see how much could be achieved on such a small budget.

OggCamp certainly filled the void left behind the second day of LugRadio, and hopefully OggCamp will continue even if a LRL event can’t be arranged for next year. All in all, an excellent weekend, I met some nice new people, put some faces to names, and caught up with old friends. Roll on next year, in whatever form it takes!

8.10 isn’t a massive release by any measure, there are only several noticeable improvements, although it seems that a lot of time and effort has gone into making this release as stable as possible. For me, even though 8.04 was a LTS (Long Term Support) release, it seemed to lack the stability that I had come to love in Ubuntu, applications would crash for no reason, and I had massive conflicts with Flash9, Firefox and Amarok all trying to hog the sound output, with no end of frustration caused.

Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop

8.10 is a fantastic return to form for the Ubuntu team, the addition of Flash10 (despite it’s proprietary evilness) is a welcome upgrade as it solves a lot of the issues that dogged my daily web browsing sessions. Network manager has had some major improvements, now supporting VPN, Wireless, DSL, and mobile 3G broadband services, through a nice (although sometimes confusing) screen.

There’s the usual updates to X.Org, the kernel and Nautilus, the latter now providing a nice tabbed browsing interface, probably not something I’ll use, but I’m sure some people will see great uses for this. Nautilus is also now more tightly integrated with Pidgin, meaning things like status messages can be updated through the Gnome panel, a nice little addition. Another upgrade to File Roller means that it supports many more compressed archive types, which saves wasting time installing different archiving applications.

We also have the addition of an optional encrypted private directory, meaning your sensitive files can now be stored and encrypted very easily, although with the advent of the 2000 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which forces citizens to hand over their encryption keys/passwords if requested by the authorities, this facility may have lost a lot of it’s advantage for some users.

Another nice little feature is the built-in guest account, something I have previously had to create myself, which allows you to quickly launch a low privilege password-less account, with absolutely no access to the file-system, in case your mate needs to quickly check his or her email on your laptop.

All in all I have found 8.10 to be rock-solid so far, and really wish that 8.04 LTS had offered this same high level of stability!

The Crowd (Photo - BrunoBord)

Well, here is it.. my yearly write-up of LUGRadio Live. Unfortunately the LUGRadio team have decided to call it a day after 5 seasons of the podcast, although it was announced at the event that LUGRadio Live will continue, which obviously I am very happy about, as I do really look forward to it each year.

For anyone who has never heard of it, LUGRadio Live is a community conference for supporters of Free and Open Source software. The event was again held in Wolverhampton at the excellent Lighthouse Media Center. I decided to bring my Asus EEE with me this year to note things down as they happen, so you won’t have to rely on my sketchy memory afterwards for details of the talks and goings-on.

Saturday

Saturday was a very early start for me, 6am to be precise, the venue was set up the same as last year, with the main stage being the large cinema screen, the second stage being the atrium, and the smaller cinema screen for lightning talks:

Rufus Pollock

Rufus was first on the main stage, with his talk on open knowledge. Presently much of the data collected by government agencies (especially in the UK) and other organisations is locked away or distributed in awkward formats such as PDF or human-readable TXT. Surprisingly the US government happens to be excellent at releasing its data to the public (and why not, they paid to collect it) and Rufus stressed that this is essential for open data to have the success that open code has enjoyed.

Rufus also pointed out the hazards of data and information being locked away with the example of the 800 patents which currently make up the mobile phone 3G standard, and how this presents a great danger to innovation. It was an excellent talk, and I will certainly look into this matter further.

Jeremy Allison

Jeremy Allison - Google

Jeremy works at Google and is a major contributor to Samba, the free-software implementation of Microsoft’s SMB (network file sharing) protocol. Jeremy gave a fascinating talk, detailing the history of Samba from it’s conception, and giving a brief idea of the future plans for the software. He also talked about Samba’s love/hate relationship with Microsoft, and some of the EU and US court cases around Microsoft’s lack of interoperability with other products, this resulted in MS having to release specifications for their protocols, which Samba has now benefited greatly from.

Glyn Wintle

I spoke to Glyn briefly at last year’s LRL, and joined the Open Rights Group not long afterwards. This particular organisation was formed in 2005, and does an excellent job of “defending our bits” as they put it, protecting our civil liberties when they are threatened by bad or inappropriate digital technology. They do this through a combination of: responding to government consultations, writing to and meeting with MP’s and publishing information for the media (one of their spokeswomen, Becky Hogge, is quoted on the BBC News site almost weekly). I was also impressed that ORG now have a member based part time in Europe, monitoring the EU’s latest rulings and proposals.

Although perhaps not as well attended as it should have been (shame on those who did not attend!) the talk was highly informative, covering topics such as Phorm, E-Voting, RIPA, and copyright extensions on music. I was particularly amused by the story of the recording industry’s full page advertising, listing musicians who would lose out if copyrights on music were not extended, this included several artist’s who were deceased, with one who died more than 40 years ago!

The ORG does a fantastic job, and anyone who can afford it should check out their website and donate as much as you can!

Sunday

Sunday was a little quieter (as usual) but there was still plenty to see and do, Bytemark‘s massive gaming rig was an excellent sight to see, and they should be congratulated for bringing it all that way!

Dotwaffle – Demo Scene

I had been wowed by dotwaffle‘s demo scene talk at LRL in 2006, and so was looking forward to the latest innovations. The demo scene started off as a way for software pirates to ‘show off’ about their latest cracks, although quickly developed into quite an art form. Dotwaffle showed several different types of demo, most of which are below 8MB in size, including music. An excellent example is “The Popular Demo” which is only 3MB (or 5Mb with music).

I can’t really think of a good way to describe demo’s, except to say that they are similar to a computer generated music video, with all sorts of fancy effects, although it is important to note that no video is used, demo’s consist of only code and graphics. These are then entered in competitions to win prizes.

I was particularly impressed by the size-limited demo’s which included 64kb and even 4kb demos. One 4kb demo in particular (Atrium – Loonies) was particularly well done, starting off with a 3D spinning object in outer space, and then building an entire three-dimensional building with walkways and other objects, with a full musical soundtrack, all within 4 kilobytes, which is absolutely phenomenal. Definitely something to check out!

The Mass Debate

Mass Debate

The mass debate this year included Jeremy Allison of Google, Max Spevack of Novell, and Matthew Garrett. Topics included GPLv3, OOXML vs ODF, and Microsoft’s release of its product specifications. The debate was stimulating, and some good questions were raised. There were also plenty of joke’s cracked at Hans Reiser’s expense!

Tango – Designing an Icon

Pascal Klein gave an excellent non-technical overview of the Tango icon project, how things work, the process of creating icons, and an summary of the legal problems that Tango has experienced over the past few years.

Tango provides a standard icon set for use within applications and operating systems, which are all free for usage in any project (as long as credit is given to the Tango team) and are now being used within many Linux distro’s to give a standard look and feel across all the pre-installed applications, which have the added benefit that when the operating system’s icon theme is changed, it changes not only GNOME/KDE, but all the applications and menu’s which utilise the same naming conventions.

I was particularly impressed with how things are beginning to be standardised through the Tango naming conventions, and the Tango style guidelines. Pascal also covered the recent announcement that the Tango icons are being released into the public domain, which will surely increase their usage, and a new project ‘TangoNG’ will be started to create a brand new icon set, hoping to avoid the licencing problems which plagued the Tango project.

Summary

Another great LRL event, attended be around 300+ people (also I stayed in a much nicer hotel this year!) and I’m extremely happy that the guys have decided to return for a 5′th event next year.

Jonathan

Update 21/07/08: Lucy pointed out that I hadn’t covered the news of the Tango icons being released into the public domain, so I have added this into the article.

My own brainstorm idea is a simple one, but I feel is could be very effective. Whilst watching a documentary on BBC3 it occurred to me how much free advertising Microsoft gets based on their default Windows logo screen saver. During a 1 hour documentary I’d say Microsoft got around 3 to 4 minutes of free advertising during interviews with people sat at their desk’s by their computer screens and I suggested that perhaps a default Ubuntu screen saver might provide some additional advertising.

I suggested the idea on the 31′st of March and it is currently at 135 positive votes. Making it the 3′rd most popular idea in the Marketing category.

If you feel obliged, click above and give it a vote!

Update: I have been notified that a Ubuntu screen saver has been present in the past, but had been missing from the last few releases. I am assured that it will be back in the operating system soon. Job Done!

Although before I jump into Ubuntu though I’m going to talk a little about some of the other work I’ve been doing lately. My PHP work is coming along well now, and I’m working on several different projects, all documented on my new code website:

JDCMS - The newest project, started only about a week ago, is a very basic content management system (CMS) designed for an administrator with no technical knowledge to keep a basic website (html/css) up to date through a very easy web interface. I have integrated the TinyMCE editor into the package and it’s almost ready for an alpha release once the code has been cleaned up and the CSS is complete. This will be the CMS used for a charity website I am currently working on.
[Update 22/02: An Alpha has now been released.]

ATS – Airport Taxi System, is being developed as a project to replace an aging Lotus Smartsuite system with a brand new PHP/MySQL database. It will cover all aspects of the business, including bookings, customer/driver management, code tables for airlines/destinations etc, financial and misc reporting, PDF/E-Mail outputs and letters. This will eventually be open-sourced for anyone to use, modify and contribute back.

OrgDirectory – This is a basic organisation/staff database I have been working on. Work on this has stalled slightly at the moment, although an alpha release was completed late last year. It needs an overhaul of the design and graphics, and also needs plenty of new features before it’ll be useful to anyone! This one’s on the back burner, or might just get scrapped!
[Update 27/02: Yeh, I scrapped it!]

Now on to Ubuntu 8.04:

8.10, due for release in April, is the latest incarnation of the Debian-based distro, and only the second Long Term Support (LTS) release from Canonical. This will mean 3 years support on the desktop and 5 years on the server.

Among the usual X-Org and Kernel updates, there are some interesting new features that should make a significant difference to end-users, and might help Ubuntu/Linux/GNU to take the edge over Microsoft, in the wake of Vista’s failure to perform as expected.

Transmission – Gnome’s Bittorrent client is set to be replaced (thankfully!) with Transmission. Although not my favourite Torrent client (which if you’re interested is Bittornado) it is certainly an improvement and novice users might find it easier to use.

Policykit – Policykit is a new security framework that allows security to be applied not just to applications, but to certain aspects of an application. This will allow application authors to tailor access to features/screens to a very specific security level, and should you try to access a part of the application not allowed by your access rights, you will be able to to unlock it with the sudo functionality.

Firefox 3 Beta’s – 8.04 will include the option to test out the latest versions of Firefox from the repositories, with a shedload of new stuff, including tighter integration with GTK, updated download manager, ACID2 support, and better bookmark management.

Brasero – Replacing the (very basic) Serpentine package is Brasero, a CD/DVD burning application, which can be used as an alternative to the Nautilus burner, and hopefully might reduce my previous reliance on K3B, so another nice change there.

Nautilus – Version 2.21.6 includes various new fixes and a new virtual filesystem (GVFS) which fixes many of Nautilus’s file-handling problems, including not being able to restore from the trash, and being able to handle multiple file transfers much more neatly.

Vinagre - A new default VNC client which supports bookmarks and multiple tabbed connections is a MASSIVE improvement over anything I have seen in the past for VNC on Linux. Although I’m not a massive user of VNC (SSH is where it’s at!) I am really looking forward to this one.

8.04 includes many other changes to the default system, including a new world clock and improvements to the System Monitor and new KVM features.

Hardy Heron (8.04) will eventually replace my Dapper Drake (6.04) web server, so I’m particularly interested in this release as a LAMP server. It certainly looks like they’re preparing for an excellent LTS release, but time will tell.

Jonathan

The Bad Bits

I’m going to start with the bad bits, this section is going to be the longest, not because there is a lot wrong with Ubuntu, but because the points I make need a decent explanation. The two biggest problems Ubuntu has (in my own opinion) are graphical and wireless support. Although this is certainly not the open source community’s fault, as many hardware manufacturer’s refuse to give information to open source developers and release their code. That’s not to say that progress hasn’t been made, the integration of NetworkManager and the addition of Bulletproof-X and the Graphical control panel in 7.10 are huge improvements to areas where newbie user’s could easily become unhinged. Still, there are some aspects that aren’t quite up to scratch.

In graphics, although every card seems to be supported out of the box, ‘3D effects‘, a much-touted feature in 7.04 and 7.10 is still very unstable, and I really have to question the inclusion of the immature Compiz Fusion project as the default 3D environment. In addition to this, on two machines I tested with ATI x300 cards, switching on the enhanced (although non-free) ‘FGLRX‘ graphics driver caused the machine to go into Xorg failsafe mode after a reboot, and even after tampering with the configuration panel I still couldn’t get 3D effects to function at all.

Switching back to the default open-source ‘ATI‘ driver solved this, and although 3D effects did function, one machine experienced system freezes every half-hour, and performance wasn’t great, which eventually led to me purchasing a new card. Saying this though, the default Ubuntu install did set up the best supported desktop it could with no bugs or crashes, so I suppose this wouldn’t affect a normal desktop end-user until they started tweaking the settings and turning Compiz on.

Another gripe of mine is wireless support. Although the list of supported chipsets is growing, and that majority of cards do now work, there seems to be very little help for cards that fail to be recognised. PCMCIA and PCI cards seem quite well supported, and I have yet to experience a problem with these, it’s USB where the issues lie. Both the cards I tested (Safecom SWMULZ-5400 and Belkin F5D7050) although recognised by Ubuntu, failed to connect to any wireless networks in range.

Forum posts on this seem to go unnoticed as there’s probably no known solution, and NDISWrapper also failed to work for me. It should be common sense that having to tweak various config files and blacklist kernel modules is not something a normal desktop end-user should have to do in order to get their hardware working.

I suppose there’s a trade-off to be had here between MS Windows, where everything works eventually, but configuration and driver installation is almost always required, and Linux/Ubuntu where half of the devices work out of the box with no set-up, configuration or installation, and the other half, where some will work after hours of effort, and some just completely fail to function at all.

I think progress is being made fast, and as more and more manufacturers open up their drivers to the community the device support is getting better and better. My advice for now is to test out all new devices with the Live CD before you wipe off your Windows partitions!

The Good Bits

Try not to let my experiences with Wireless USB and ATI cards sour you on Ubuntu, it does have a lot to offer, and 7.10 brings some great improvements to the already brilliant product. Also, my basic £30 Nvidia card worked out of the box and provides blistering speed and excellent graphical performance for 3D effects and the multitude of free FPS games I waste my life on every evening, Nexuiz being my current favourite!

The default desktop environment ‘Gnome‘ is now at version 2.20 and is more than suitable for everyday use by a novice user. The layout of the menu’s and toolbars is excellent and the bundled applications with Ubuntu include a full Office Suite, Firefox web browser, image editing, audio and video players, instant messaging clients, along with all the other bits and bobs you need and thousands of other applications to install through the simple ‘Add/Remove‘ application, all for free, just by ticking a box.

I also want to mention Windows compatibility, over the past few years the Wine project has done excellent things in making as many Windows applications as possible compatible with Linux, leaving user’s with fewer excuses to stick with Microsoft, and thanks to a new and improved ‘Wine’ menu, users can now configure Wine, view their installed Windows applications and uninstall them, all from one place, without having to remember any command line rubbish, and with the ‘Wine Doors‘ project taking shape things are just going to get easier and easier!

Looking at Ubuntu 7.10 and comparing it to Vista, it seems like moving away from Windows was one of the smartest things I ever did, and with the incredible progress being made I can’t wait to get my hands on the next LTS release in April 08.

Jonathan

I have had experience of many languages in the past few years, including ASP, HTML, CSS, VB, VB Script, JSP, Batch, Python, Shell Scripts and many others, but apart from HTML and CSS, I have never really taken to a programming language well. The only language I have had a lot of experience with is PHP. It seems that PHP has become the standard language for web applications these days, especially the open source ones, and all of the applications I run on my sites (PHPBB, WordPress, Mediawiki) use it, so it’s inevitable that I have picked up some skills in that area by poking around, adding new features, fixing bugs etc…

Only recently I have started looking into learning PHP to code professionally. I have started small by building some simple applications, scripts to access MySQL and MS Access databases and am really enjoying it so far, and it’s a great rush of excitement when you finally get a script doing what you want it to do.

After all the recent publicity around Facebook’s API and the associated applications I started looking into the technical side of things and how the Apps were built, as well as how they were linked into the user’s Facebook account. Remarkably 90% of the work is done by the developers own web server, which stores the code and manages adding and configuring the App, with the results appearing integrated into the Facebook site.

It’s quite a nifty system, based on PHP, with Facebook’s own mark-up language (FBML) similar to HTML. It also allows you to extract any information from the user’s Facebook profile and add it into your application. Facebook’s own documentation on this is sparse, although they do provide a sample application and the PHP5 library which you need to install (and configure with API keys and so on) to link your site to Facebook. Fortunately I managed to find a great page which gives newbie developers a much more useful guide to developing Facebook Apps.

My first application is small, but it seems to work well. It’s basically a ClassicKidsTV box which provides the site’s logo, with a link to the site and some additional text, I have also played around with the confirmation page so that it drags through the user’s name, and I plan to add in some functionality that will grab the user’s favourite Television shows and then ask them to add some Classic Kids shows to it!

It’s only an initial release, buggy and fairly useless to most people, but I really enjoyed coding it, and given that there are currently only around 6,000 applications on Facebook (compared to it’s 47 million members) I feel it’s quite an achievement!

• ClassicKidsTV Facebook App
• ClassicKidsTV Facebook App Info
• Tucows Facebook Developer Guide
• Facebook Platform

Jonathan

Here’s some of the things I am most looking forward to in this upcoming release:

• Gnome 2.20 – For us KDE haters. The new release of Gnome with updates to Searching, Image Viewing, Power Management (A must-have on the laptop) and an overall nicer appearance it should certainly improve the whole user experience.

• Desktop Effects – This is currently one of the most impressive features of Linux, beating anything Mac OS-X and (dare I say) Vista can produce. The effects are now provided by the recently created Compiz Fusion project, a merger between the competing Compiz and Beryl projects. Despite some controversy in the open-source community, these effects are now enabled by default in every Ubuntu installation.

• Firefox – Ubuntu’s version of the world-conquering browser Firefox now has an incredible new feature in the ‘Plug-in Finder Service’. Now some might say ‘Wait a minute, hasn’t Firefox always had a Plug-in Update Service?’. Whilst this is technically true, as anyone who has ever tried to use it with Ubuntu will testify, it was about as much use as a chocolate teapot. Necessary plug-ins such as Flash were identified, but never installed due to them being non-free additions, leaving the end-user to plough through the Ubuntu support forums trying to find out how to install it. Well it appears this issue is now resolved and Firefox can automatically detect and install the most popular plug-ins, even giving the option to install the open source flash player ‘Gnash‘.

• Graphical XOrg Configuration – One of the greatest problems with Linux from a configuration standpoint is that the display system used (X.Org) is very hard to configure. Screen resolution, refresh rate and multiple monitors all had to be configured using a text config file, or alternatively a very confusing text based setup utility. This has now all changed with the addition of a graphical interface for configuring all aspects of the display.

These new additions, along with improvements to Wireless Networking, Restricted Drivers, Additional Server Set-up Profiles, Printing and NTFS read/write access, it’s really shaping up to be a great release.

Jonathan