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This cycle's Ubuntu Development Summit has been preceeded by FOSSCamp, an un-conference. No schedule, no talks, just intelligent people and rooms to chat in. Robert Knight does a good summary of some of the interesting sessions. I also talked GPL 3 with people from the FSF, the good news is that core libraries like libc are unlikely to go GPL 3 only any time soon but we are likely to need an extra copy of libsmbclient and possibly other libraries until KDE can go GPL 3 happy. We had a couple of sessions on usability in Ubiquity which hopefully will go somewhere, although partitions are never likely to be an easy thing to understand. We looked at PackageKit and saw that it was good but apt support is lacking at the moment and it missed important apt features like debconf support. I pondered the possibility of porting system-config-printer to KDE which I think is quite promising. We also looked at our troublesome patch to add forkpty() support to Konsole which Robert promises to fix in return for lots of beer. Finally we chatted about Java and the problems of getting it into Ubuntu server. Read More

Seems I couldn't prevent any longer the completion of a questionnaire: People of openSUSE: Stephan Binner.

Maybe some of you have already noticed, I'm back in good old Germany. Since end of April I was in Clifton Park, New York, working at Kitware. This was a really great time. I learned a lot about the US and visited a lot of beautiful and interesting places, beside the usual also locations which are a bit less known (in Germany at least) but not less beautiful: the Adirondacks, a great place for hiking and relaxing and the peninsula Cape Cod just south of Boston (really beautiful city !). Read More

So the cold war between KHTML and WebKit heated up a little again, this time the enemy isn't Apple, but former KHTML developers, and KDE personas. I will spare you the links, since it is all too embarrassing. Read More

I was surprised to get so much feedback about the KOrganizer agenda items after I posted the screenshots in my last blog entries. There seem to be some strong opinions about rounded corners. Michael Lentner did the right thing and sent a patch. I applied it and suddenly the agenda items look much more slick. Read More

I guess sometimes one has to be direct. So, here is what I do and do not believe in: I am not opposed to: (1) Dropping our tree in favor of Apple's in general. I am quite aware of the tons of good things they've done (along with a few things I thought were poor decisions); however, I would only want this to happen after some concerns are addressed, and I, perhaps naively, expect that all those people going around talking about how it would be great, and how all those people and businesses are involved would lend a hand. I am a busy guy and my priority is to get things in shape for 4.0. Read More

This week is Ubuntu Open Week, a series of talks and Q&A session on IRC. Yesterday Richard did a top session on Kubuntu and logs are available for those wanting to catch up. He had another session tomorrow (Thurday) at 2100 UTC. There are also sessions on using Launchpad, packaging for beginners and pretty much every other part of the Ubuntu world. At 1600 UTC today is the ever popular Ask Mark session, join #ubuntu-classroom for the chance to put in your questions. Read More

This afternoon it looks like I'll get to go tomorrow to the Systems fair in Munich. I've got various exhibitor booths to visit and see what new things they have on offer, and also one or two meetings arranged already. Read More

Given the time constraints for KDE 4.0, I have decided to downgrade the functionality for the weather applet. In this release, my aim is to replace kweather functionality completely. This should be feesable to do for the 1.0 release. Read More

Some KDE people met to discuss next weekend's FOSSCamp on IRC. Reading the logs might be useful if you're going and don't yet know what to expect.