Akademy

Finland, Finland, Finland, The country where I want to be, Eating breakfast or dinner, Or snack lunch in the hall. Finland, Finland, Finland. Finland has it all.

Akademy has been lovely. Good people, good talks, good sessions.

Meego is interesting, it's nice they're using Qt and will pick up some KDE technologies, it's a shame they're unlikely to pick up Plasma though. The forums talk was interesting, we often forget about forums as developers, I wonder if distros should remember to point people at the KDE forums as appropriate. The Plasma Mobile talk showed off the promising UI they've been working on and which they've been working with Kubuntu to get into Maverick. Adriaan de Groot gave an overview of legal issues, he gave a very good example of the problems even experienced people can get into with legal issues by making his slides CC-BY-SA when the artwork used in the slides is GPL, oops. Porting KWin to Maemo/MeeGo showed the impressive work that goes into making our window manager do compositing and the problems with getting that on mobile devices. The KDE Plasma device spectrum gave a promising update on Plasma Media Centre which I think is something we miss in our distribution. Boost for KDE Developers looked fiddly and gave the sad news that no ABI stability is likely to happen soon, why is boost the only library allowed to do this?

Working on Krita showed some brushes and was all very mediocre until he showed the pictures that can be made with those brushes, Krita is a really impressive painting app. Aaron inspired with his keynote on elegance. I didn't go to the Chakra talk but I'm told they turned up the flames and were told off for that, at least I got some apologies afterwards, I made them wear Kubuntu stickers to share the love.

Through the week I've had a bunch of useful conversations on topics from artwork to release management. BoF sessions have been on GSoc, branding, e.V. and a bunch more. I ran a Kubuntu session and spoke about why Kubuntu is needed, what's good and what needs fixing. Aurelien gave an overview of his work on status notifiers and other projects. NCommander ran a session on ARM and the problems with it, there were a bunch of good comments (but then thiago was at the session so there would be).

I tried the Qt certification test and passed, so I can now use the chatup line that I'm certified Qt.

And now some pretty photos from the hack lab and the day trip

hacking and chatting chatting and hacking on sofas Going through the exam for Qt Certification Day trip to the loch, Declan and Stuart learn Canadian canoeing Standing on a log in water is surprisingly hard Finland is a curious society which invents strange punishments to promote to tourists. Here you get put into a boiling hot room and hit with birch wood. No idea why.