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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.

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.

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.

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.