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Björn and I sat down (or rather mailed around) to get the FSFE Fellowship Meeting and KDE 4.2 Stuttgart Release Party going. Of course that involved talking to people around here. Ingo of RadioTux was on my list of locals, so I contacted him. What I didn't expect was to be interviewed on RadioTux just a few days later. I had a short interview on RadioTux. So if you are really brave, you can listen to me (in German), stuttering here. After some technical problems they got me on the phone at around 65 minutes. And d'oh, could I think of many things to say when skipping through it afterwards... I guess I still need to work on my promo skills. But it turned out much less embarassing than I had originally feared :D Read More

Before going to last years Akademy I had planned to use the week to try and start helping out with Ruby support for KDevelop4. In the end I got sidetracked by two things; playing with the Nokia N810 and finding out about a web application development library called 'Wt'. Koen Deforche gave a talk about Wt and I was impressed the way he described how web development usually sucked, and why a widget based desktop style api was better than the usual web page with embedded code approach. Read More

A new version of the KDE Four Live CD with KDE 4.2 RC 1 packages is up. </twitter>

Hi, just out of interest, where is Gnome heading these days ? I'm a bit confused. There is Gnome2, which are applications written using libgtk2, mostly in C (also some Python and C#). Read More

Ok, it's sort of late... - I wish everyone a happy 2009 :) And since I just found my camera: What a way to start 2009 - Danimo enjoys his swimming pool and Lydia her green dragon. Read More

I'm happy to announce a KDE 4.2 Release Party in Stuttgart. At the same time this will be the first FSFE Fellowship meeting here. Together with the FSFE we will celebrate the release, meet, talk and have fun. Of course everyone interested in Free Software is invited. Read More

As usual, KDE will have a presence at this year's FOSDEM. If you're coming, be sure to check out our KDE devroom schedule for Saturday, and the CrossDesktop devroom schedule for Sunday. I expect that within a few days the whole schedule will be available, instead of only a few devrooms (importantly, there will be a KDE-related talk in the Debian room). If you're around on Saturday, don't forget to come to the group picture! Read More

Do you need a new telephone? A mobile one without a wire? Please consider buying a Nokia telephone. When you buy a Nokia telephone you support free software. Do not buy an iPhone, do not buy a Palm, buy a Nokia. Were you considering buying a Motorola or an HTC telephone? Think again. Think Free Software. Buy a Nokia. Avoid Windows Mobile. Avoid the iPhone. Avoid WebOS. Buy a Nokia with Free Software. Read More

Thanks Nokia! It will be really interesting how this will impact the Qt and KDE communities, desktop, embedded, mobile, cross-desktop collaboration. Looking forward to a friendly competition on technical merits only. :-) Read More

Not something I thought I'd ever be posting on the Dot but Qt is relicencing to LGPL. They're also going to open up the development archive to non-Nokia developers. I never did understand why GPL was a barrier but talking to people at conferences it was often their main reason for choosing against using Qt. Now there's no reason not to use the world's finest toolkit. Read More