• 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.

fiftyeight!

And there were more people not running one.

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

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.

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.

Time to continue working on the things I want to show around there :)

plane ticket
place to sleep
travel guides
warm fuzzy feeling because I did not plan last minute at least once

In case you missed it on the lists:

If you have booked a hostel place to get some sleep from time to time, the money has to arrive until the 23rd of July or your bed is gone (link)

Not the organizers idea, but the hostels.

From last years experiences, please help the organizers and make up your plans now and register for aKademy2006. Having the number of participants increase a lot last minute does not help to keep the organizers happy. :)

I am really looking forward to aKademy this year. :)

8000 unread mails (100 in my inbox, the rest being maillists) 1500 unread blog entries, (half of them by Google Blog Search, news sites (tagesschaue et. al.) and duplicates from some planets).

I will have a hectic work week coming up. So not much productive KDE work going to happen.

I played with my webpage layout a bit. Changed the placement of the Google Ads (click the ones you are interested in if you want to. ;) ) and simplified the overall look. Set up a mirror of planetkde.org named planet.physos.org and uploaded my aKademy pictures on photos.physos.org. I had no time^Wmotivation to adjust the photos page to my site design.

My work on the feature guide is picking up speed and I will have something showable on next Thursday, I think.

I played with docs.kde.org a bit. I am a step forward with the “not-really-ajax” “google-suggest-like” completion, but it is not yet ready for production use. docs.kde.org has now a registered Google SiteMap though. I thought Google has problems to spider the new layout. Turned out I am dork, instead. :( I made a typo in the robots.txt and denied spiders to run over all of docs. This is fixed now and I kicked most search engines I know to run over docs again. Sorry to all the people working on the content.

For the statistics people out there. The sitemap contains:

• 78575 *.html
• 46324 *.png

This is an impressive amount of documentation and translations produced by the translation teams and the documentation team.

worldwide.kde.org got hit by a spammer which gave up after realizing he is sending mail only to me. I will introduce some spam prevention after checking some possible solutions. I want to rework the submission form anyway.

So some small things done, big things only in the planning stage, other things only an idea in my head. Thats only the KDE part of my life, though. I am looking forward to investigate the possibilities to get my ideas up and running.

“May you live in interesting times” Agatean curse

It took me some time to get back on my normal track. I brought a nice little “airconditioning” cold back home from Malaga. And some need for sleep and non KDE conversation.

What sticks to my mind about my time in Malaga after a week?

The people!

This aKademy, even more than the last one, was about people for me. Our hosts from Linux Malaga managed everybody to feel welcome. To me it felt a bit like visiting good friends in their home. Antonio, Cayetano, Eduardo, Juan-Mi, Javier, David, Victor and all the others (I am horrible at remembering names, but I clearly remember your faces and all the work you did), I am really glad that my life included meeting you.

I met most of the aKademy attendance for the first time. Being able to see a face and person behind the electronic conversation sure makes a difference for me. It gives the KDE community, I am a part of, an even more human face. I am a talkative person, not always to my favor, but even I needed some days of silent and lonesome computer use before being able to communicate again. ;) Wherever you went there were people talking, discussing, having a coffee together, going for dinner, walking back to the residence, talking about last night adventures, … . I used my own computer only for some hours during all of aKademy and I am proud of it.

This aKademy saw many important decisions. The e.V. meeting especially brought some important new directions. I did the official minutes and was a pretty busy writing up the lengthy discussions and all the decisions made. Exciting times ahead.

The two conferences held too many good talks. I was amazed at the quality of the overall conference. Having a three track developer conference sure forced some hard decisions which talk to attend, but it shows the high amount of quality work going on in KDE.

I liked talking to our guests. Mark Shuttleworth is an interesting human and gave a nice talk about collaboration. Pete Goodall was fun to talk to. I got some more insight about some topics from him. (Hi Pete, Marteijn forwarded me the money ;) )

I especially liked meeting our two guests from Nokia. I met them first during the social event and they are not only very friendly and open people they are also very knowledgable about KHTML and the surrounding technologies and the people involved. David Carson and Deepika Chauhan gave us some nice eyeopeners about the problems and challenges of the Symbian platform during their talk, but they were talking to the relevant developers far beyond that scope. Especially the emphasize on their desire to contribute back and to work from a common code base, showed a deep insight how OpenSource works. It was nice and refreshing that OpenSource is not only seen as a milk cow by corporations. David, Deepika, I am glad I met you.

Time to talk about the Social Events. They deserve the capital letters. The Novell sponsored night in “El Liceo” (credits to Cayetano for the correction) will keep the “best social event of a OSS/FSS conference” crown for the next 100 years. The KDE community sure knows how to party. This was proven the next weekend at the beach party.

The fruits of some of the discussions and meetings I had during the Coding Marathon will become separate entries or come to life later this year.

To sum it up: I loved my time in Malaga. The KDE community rocks.

( I will link to pictures once I have them uploaded somewhere. I did not know flickr has a upload limit of 20MB. Well, there is a start available ;) )

I think I packed everything essential like underwear and my camera.

Against my own ideas I am not packing the switch. I had not enough time to get the small one I wanted in Darmstadt and my local electronic dealers had only overpriced crappy ones which are unusable afterwards. I am still chasing for my adapter, even if it is unneeded most likely.

I am in panic about my talk since things are still not working like I intended them to. Well, less vacation more time on the laptop. I have an idea what I want to show and what I want to achieve with the talk, so the rest falls in once the technical problems I encountered last minute are gone, I hope.

To clear up some missconceptions about my talk:

• The talk is not about creating multimedia presentations with KPresenter,
• it will not cover commercial or different OS tools,
• it will show the highly experimental status of the current situation.

I hope I have nice demo videos for all three solutions finished in the end. Adding the audio is a bit more tricky with some.

My plans for aKademy are to do the minutes of the membership meeting, work on my various web projects in KDE and have a nice time ;)

I had some highflying plans, but the more I thought about them, the more I realized, I can not plan for other peoples time and have to see whats going to happen.

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 ;)