physos.org

I volunteered to integrate the slides sent to me into the akademy webpage. Some remarks on that.

• Please send your slides to endres@kde.org
• My “system” to process the slides is better than last year, so I will not loose any slides, just because they were sent too early. (not being busy at aKademy might help in that )
• Please send the slides in PDF format if possible. While ODP format sounds nice, it has the downside of fonts and sometimes graphics not being displayed the way you carefully designed them to. If I export to PDF, your presentation might look quite different from what you did.
• Send them ASAP, people want to know what is going on (I do )

I only received two presentations so far - hooray to Benjamin Reed (talk) and Richard Moore (talk) - so there is still room for improvement.

KDE Worldwide got an update. Yeah!

Sorry for not updating it for so long, but I had to rebuild the toolchain and too many things interfered.

KDE Worldwide will get some major updates over the next days, bringing it into modern times. You will be suprised

Providing Marble and Google Earth compatible data files is just the start of upcoming things.

I have some cleanup to do, since some people ended up on the wrong side of the world or in the middle of an ocean. I will improve verifing your entry a lot.

So current data, nice features coming and my head full of future plans for the upcoming new KDE website. World domination here we come.

Since I was to lazy to count the people, I counted the laptops running during the accessibility talk.

fiftyeight!

And there were more people not running one.

Room stuffed and Olaf giving a very good presentation. I love aKademy!

So the second day of my aKademy experience is going at full speed.

We had some nice welcoming words and Aaron undulated his wontoness in a short technical break during his keynote, yeah. (better covered elsewhere, perheaps)

Ellen gave a nice talk which made it much clearer to me how usability experts are taking a different approach to looking at applications and especially features than developers in the general Open Source project. Something to keep in mind

Aaron did not undulate his wontoness in his Plasma talk. No eyecandy but nice overview and technical informations and motivation backgrounds. After he was giving a nice keynote summing up who we are and where we are heading, he is now free to be hassled, since he has no talk to prepare :). Hope his sildes are online soon. Some nice thoughts in there, but I forgot to take notes.

Everybody seemed to have nice time at the Pub yesterday. Meeting all the people coming to aKademy who are “not yet a developer” but traveling to the conference and being enthusiastic about KDE was a nice conclusion of my first day in Dublin. Nice to see the KDE community continuing to attract smart and interesting people.

So tomorrow I will leave for aKademy 2006.

I am trying to find a last minute method for two channel brain input and holographic projection for being able to attend all the talks I want to. The conference program is even more amazing this year. Hard time deciding.

I have no talk to give, so my goals are simple:

• Moving my Google SoC project from shaking foundations to solid ground.
• Hack a lot on the www.kde.org development.
• Inspiration for another year of KDE galore.

I am looking forward to 10 days with smart, funny and inspiring people.