I changed the button order of my window buttons after seeing it on Aarons laptop.
Nice stuff. So far I am very comfortable with it. It totaly fits my way of working with windows.
I maximized 2 times in the last 3 days. I can not count how often I closed a window. Having the close button alone on the right side, where I am looking for it since windows 3.1, is just perfect.
Most delayed review ever?
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 know the Math of my Countdown is oddly flawed. ;)
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:
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.
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.
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.
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 ;)
Bram: Should I say more?
Jep, you should say this is the default view.
This can still be improved and the old and new maintainer are aware of this and working on it, but it is still a big difference to the full options view you choose to show off
