En avant!

I gave today the presentation I prepared for the last few weeks for a work-related international conference. I'm pleased with how things went. Tomorrow the conference ends. From then on, I'll go in 6th gear on preparing for the trip to San Francisco LinuxWorld Expo. I will go there thanks to the very generous people at Ricoh.

This will be my first KDE expo in the last 5 years and the first time I meet fellow KDE developers since 2002. There will be Kurt. Then there will be our friends from the KDE booth: Charles Samuels and friends.

I don't hide I'm pretty excited about this. First, I will be in prime contact with the smartest heads in Open Source printing. This will give me an important jumpstart in my work on the KDEPrint framework. Second, I need to feel myself how Linux is perceived in the -- granted, already interested -- industry. I have the impression that I'm too idealist about what Open Source is and I need to realize if I can really be accused of some sort of elitism or ivory tour syndrom. I hope that once this assessment will sink in, I will be able to correct the fire and become more useful to the community.

See you in 5 days, all you SF-LWE goers.