Montreal and Prizes

Cycling around Montreal on the back of a Brompton me and Sladen discovered you can get very very large pumpkins very cheaply after Halloween. Montreal is on an island and has long bridges that take a good while to cycle over. For that authentic North American experience we went to college (called a school) and hung out with the anime club who have nice sofas. We discovered the original buckyball and found that their artworks make for very challenging climbs.

and slightly more terrified at the top. Also available in full motion sladen-video.

We also discovered this in the local Quaker meeting house which somewhat spoke to me, the only thing missing is "share your software".

But back to matters Kubuntu. A nice Kubuntu fan with unlimited bandwidth added a new German download mirror and reported an impressive >700GB of traffic in the two days since adding it. The Boston Herald installed Kubuntu even if they didn't get the pronounciation quite right. And we won 3rd place in Best Debian Distribution at the Linux New Media awards. (That's a good two places below where I'd like of course, and isn't the lack of Debian on that list a bit of an insult?). In his acceptance speech Mark Shuttleworth said how impressed he was at the community drive behind KDE. KDE sister project Kolab won best groupware server.