It’s no secret that I am a Banshee fanatic. For all my talk about web apps, there’s just no replacing Banshee for me.

It’s a beautiful thing. We’ve got a sh*t hot Ubuntu/Debian Mono team, a responsive upstream who cares about users, people like Bertrand Lorentz taking care of things like Sound Menu/MPRIS2 support, and we’ve got people like David Nielsen being the bridge between upstream and the distro (Like these two.)

Didier posted a status update of the state of Banshee for UNE. I personally take responsibility for thanking Alex Launi and Nathan McCallum in my own special way, so that leaves Alan…

If you want to thank Alan, get him something from his Amazon wishlist. And as always, thanks to Novell for sponsoring the Banshee project.

PS: Nathan, come find me so I can buy you alcohol even though I know you don’t drink it. I tried to find you at OLF and you were missing.

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