physos.org http://physos.org by Rainer "physos" Endres Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:59:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 en slides from aKademy http://physos.org/2007/07/03/slides-from-the-conference/ http://physos.org/2007/07/03/slides-from-the-conference/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:36:57 +0000 physos http://physos.org/2007/07/03/slides-from-the-conference/ 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.

]]> http://physos.org/2007/07/03/slides-from-the-conference/feed/ Are you part of the worldwide KDE revolution? http://physos.org/2006/10/07/are-you-part-of-the-worldwide-kde-revolution/ http://physos.org/2006/10/07/are-you-part-of-the-worldwide-kde-revolution/#comments Sat, 07 Oct 2006 20:43:13 +0000 physos http://physos.org/2006/10/07/are-you-part-of-the-worldwide-kde-revolution/ 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.

]]> http://physos.org/2006/10/07/are-you-part-of-the-worldwide-kde-revolution/feed/ small observations at aKademy #1 http://physos.org/2006/09/24/small-observations-at-akademy-1/ http://physos.org/2006/09/24/small-observations-at-akademy-1/#comments Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:04:58 +0000 physos http://physos.org/2006/09/24/small-observations-at-akademy-1/ 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!

]]> http://physos.org/2006/09/24/small-observations-at-akademy-1/feed/ aKademy 2006 Day zero-one http://physos.org/2006/09/23/akademy-2006-day-zero-one/ http://physos.org/2006/09/23/akademy-2006-day-zero-one/#comments Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:09:02 +0000 physos http://physos.org/2006/09/23/akademy-2006-day-zero-one/ 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.

]]> http://physos.org/2006/09/23/akademy-2006-day-zero-one/feed/ aKademy countdown: 1 day http://physos.org/2006/09/21/akademy-countdown-1-day/ http://physos.org/2006/09/21/akademy-countdown-1-day/#comments Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:42:14 +0000 physos http://physos.org/2006/09/21/akademy-countdown-1-day/ 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.

]]> http://physos.org/2006/09/21/akademy-countdown-1-day/feed/ aKademy countdown: 49 days http://physos.org/2006/08/04/akademy-countdown-49-days/ http://physos.org/2006/08/04/akademy-countdown-49-days/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:16:32 +0000 physos http://physos.org/2006/08/04/akademy-countdown-49-days/ The tickets for my flight arrived yesterday. So the travel preparations for aKademy 2006 are done for now. I even remembered to add my arrival time to the arrvial page in the wiki.

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
]]> http://physos.org/2006/08/04/akademy-countdown-49-days/feed/ worldwide.kde.org update? You bet! http://physos.org/2006/08/01/worldwidekdeorg-update-you-bet/ http://physos.org/2006/08/01/worldwidekdeorg-update-you-bet/#comments Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:18:37 +0000 physos http://physos.org/2006/08/01/worldwidekdeorg-update-you-bet/ Quite some people sent me their locations since the last update. They are not lost!

I had problems to compile my nice little xplanet 0.95a, which I used for the maps. xplanet 1.0/1 could not produce the maps I needed. So I was a bit out of business. I now looked at xplanet 1.2 in a free minute and I can see light at the end of the tunnel. I could get all the things working, I need.

worldwide.kde.org KDE contributor map

worldwide.kde.org will update soon!

Not today and probably not tomorrow, since I have to renovate the complete scripting mess I have around it. The campaign to render the planet covered with contributor dots is on rails, though.

]]> http://physos.org/2006/08/01/worldwidekdeorg-update-you-bet/feed/ kde://radio coolness http://physos.org/2006/07/16/kderadio-coolness/ http://physos.org/2006/07/16/kderadio-coolness/#comments Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:02:44 +0000 physos http://physos.org/2006/07/16/kderadio-coolness/ The new KDE://radio page was announced yesterday. And Olaf reacted instantly.

Type kde://radio in your location bar.

Instant coolness without compiling. :) You have to love this community.

Thanks to Aaron for the wonderful updates from the source. Thanks to Olaf for acting instantly.

If you want to see a proof, watch the first video recorded with konstantin

(working title, anyone suggestions for a better name?) The first one finding the inspiration for the name, gets a cookie.

]]> http://physos.org/2006/07/16/kderadio-coolness/feed/ Konstantin started his adventures http://physos.org/2006/07/14/konstantin-started-his-adventures/ http://physos.org/2006/07/14/konstantin-started-his-adventures/#comments Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:57:19 +0000 physos http://physos.org/2006/07/14/konstantin-started-his-adventures/ [KDE Books] So it finally happened, my first bigger KDE development project started and I have a lot of learning to do. I did start to dive into KDE development several times already, but now I have a project I am passionate about enough to put all my energy into. I was very surprised how much I could take out of these rather “old” books. KDEs development platform is very stable compared to the webplatforms I programmed so far. The architects of the KDE 2.0 platform sure built something to last.

Thanks to the help from all the nice KDE people on IRC. (Hi tackat :) ) I overcome the initial obstacles quite fast and KDE is really as much fun to program as everybody told me all the years. :)

[C++ Books] Since C++, despite the good bindings for Qt and KDE, is still the major language to program KDE in, there is much learning going on in this area, too. ATM I am still learning something new with almost every line of code and it feels like rediscovering my computer again. It is years since I last programmed a larger project from scratch instead of correcting and modifying code. Programming something for real users instead of server is real fun :)

So my first prototype for my SoC project is in the Subversion repository and development is speeding up. I will write a longer blog entry with more details about the project over the weekend. So stay tuned. :)

]]> http://physos.org/2006/07/14/konstantin-started-his-adventures/feed/ Dublin, here I come (73 days until aKademy) http://physos.org/2006/07/12/dublin-here-i-come-73-days-until-akademy/ http://physos.org/2006/07/12/dublin-here-i-come-73-days-until-akademy/#comments Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:46:25 +0000 physos http://physos.org/2006/07/12/dublin-here-i-come-73-days-until-akademy/ I registered for aKademy yesterday and payed the hostel today. I hope the bank transfer is processed in time.

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. :)

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