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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.

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

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 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.

The new KDE://radio page was announced yesterday. And Olaf reacted instantly.

Type 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.