physos.org

3 days to my flight (including this one which just started for me) and 7 days until aKademy starts.

I am exited and looking forward to meeting all those fellow KDE people again.

I am anxious about my talk since I wanted to show alternatives to my workflow and my once working setup for them now utterly fails.

• xvidcap does not capture in my old build anymore and does not build because of broken configure checks in the current source. Happy debugging physos
• pyvnc2swf is no replacement for vnc2swf yet, since I can not get it to capture a remote session. sigh It has some very nice new features I intended to put to use.
• Istanbul needed a just released gstreamer, which I built yesterday night, will see if it builds now.
• my old gstreamer setup suddenly complains about not being able to find theora. Another sigh I hope I fixed that with the new build, too.

I had all 4 of them working at one point in time, but somehow I managed to bork them all.

I wanted to use the KDE slides included with KOffice some people mentioned, but they are against my “Keep the style simple” paradigma for slides. So some more time to produce a master style I like.

Anxious. (I will panic on Sunday.)

I have not looked into what clothes to take, or when to wash them, or if I have any supplies of all the things I need. I really hope there is a washing machine in the Residence, so I can take things like a power cord and perheaps a small switch with me instead of 16 T-Shirts and 6 pants. 20kg is not much when you are wearing XXXL.

Hope that Eva and Matze who are already down there can perheaps give some “shopping tips for travellers”.

Things I knew people were missing last year, which I intend to take with me but which might be an idea for some others, too.

• power cord with adapter for your laptop. (or razor) Check if you need one
• network cable, RJ45 looong (depending on the weight I might take some spare)
• A cup or other means of holding something to drink. (Including some nametag)
• lots of small cards to note e-mail addresses and other stuff. (bussines card replacements) Nice for ideas coming up while having a beer.
• paper and meanings of applying Ink to it.

I bet I will find many more little things over the day, but first I have to try to find a pair of trousers I still fit into and buy that very small switch. So if you have things you missed last year ( british powerplugs and no adapters anybody? ) please post a comment, I will include them in the main post as they come in

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