Since June 2004 I’ve been maintaining the Skype ebuilds in Gentoo and because I pest them with bugs and issues I’ve been asked to join the Closed Beta Program in November 2006.
In the 12th and 13th of September Skype organized the Closed Beta Days 2007. It is an annual event that joins people from the Skype team as well as external developers, beta testers and translators and this year it happened in the beautiful city of Prague. It was a very good opportunity to meet the Skype team, other beta testers and to get a better idea on the future of Skype.
The event was very well organized and the seminars were fast and to the point, covering many areas of interest.
More info on what I saw there and about the future of Skype in Linux? No can do 
But trust me, Skype’s future in general, and the Linux version in particular, seems very VERY good.
Thanks to Raul and Antoine for organizing this event. Thanks to Marco, Ryan Hunt and Jonathan for the good time. I hope to meet you all next year.
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Nice!
I’m working on design and multimedia now, and have moved 100% to Apple OS X! (heck, I have bought an iPhone! :p) Even though I’ve been a Mac OS user for a long time (OS6 days) I was “living” on a personal PC for some years, running gentoo/winxp. As soon as I get my own Mac (waiting for Leopard to buy a Macbook Pro ;)) I will try to use Gentoo again, a little more on it! 
I had no idea “we” had a Gentoo user on Prt.Sc
I used to be a more active Gentoo user, and even ran a private overlay for new versions of various software!
Great to hear that Skype is calling “private” developers/helpers into this Beta Day. It’s good for them as they get their input, but it’s ultimately good for the users!
Keep it up!
PS: I’m “EiNZTEiN” on freenode… Have been for a looong time!
Haven’t used IRC so much lately, but I’m almost 100% my BNC is hanging in there! :p