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Gavin Beatty, GSoC student for the KDEPrint's online OpenPrinting drivers fetching and installation, provided his latest report today. It's refreshing to see enthusiasm and excitement from new young faces joining our community. It's perhaps this kind of effervescence that makes me eager to meet my students in class each autumn. Or to try to put some time in projects like GSoC. We need new energy. We need evolution. Read More

Afer a few months of really bad working atmosphere (see blogs.kde.org/node/2523) and some of legal stuff, I thought all of this was over until yesterday when the fruitcase called me to ask me to join his new venture, offer which I naturally refused. I just have to say he didn't liked this answer, I have a few recorded voicemails as proof of this :( Read More

It's quite long since I want to write about this: I used to use the audiocd: ioslave to rip my CDs. But since almost a year, I started to constantly use kAudioCreator. Nifty little tool! Does one thing and does it extremely well. Congrats Benjamin. Hope you keep this one up with KDE4. Read More

KDE People have been asking me about t-shirts I composed at spreadshirt. Here you have the 'shop': http://www.spreadshirt.net/shop.php?sid=95340 [image:2869 align=right nolink=1 width=280]The virtual shop was originally created within a Polish t-shirt company, just for Kexi t-shirts before Malaga, before spreadshirt acquired the company. At the time (2005) I was able to get the shipment within Poland quite fast. Now it always comes from Germany. No udea why. Moreover, labour is obviously more expensive there... so prices increased too. Read More

The missed kdedevelopers.org site is back! Thanks go to Ian Geiser for founding and hosting it until recently. Starting this week it's hosted on a KDE e.V. server and administered by the KDE sysadmins. All old content except the theme has been transferred. The old (new account and password reminder notifications) and most known bugs of the new setup are fixed meanwhile. :-) Read More

A quick roundup what happened during the last three weeks: It started with the Novell OPS Hack Week: I continued one project I started already previously and started three others. One got finished and about two I will blog once they go online/are finished and in our KDE packages. What's better than hack week? Double hack week! Novell Hack Week ended already Thursday evening for me as I departed to Akademy on Friday morning. After the conference during the week-end was the next week filled with the KDE e.V. general assembly (congratulation to Klaas getting elected into the board), BoF sessions and a coding marathon (don't miss the groupphoto plasmoid in playground SVN!). During Akademy running KDE 4.0 Alpha 2 was finally released. Of course we had packages for openSUSE and a Live-CD with them. This article contains some screenshot of it. Also during Akademy the news went public that Novell had become "Patron of KDE" - as first distributor. Thanks to Nat and everyone else who supported it. After playing with Wordpress the last weeks, a welcome change: Drupal, to get kdedevelopers.org going again. Pleased with the openSUSE schedule to bring all new openSUSE frontends, sites and skins online just in time for openSUSE's second birthday which incidentally coincides with LWE San Francisco. SUSE will have much to celebrate there! Look forward to more often and smaller blogs in the future again. :-)

Akademy happened in Glasgow and rocked lots. Unfortunately a combination of no internet for the first day and a half and kdedevelopers.org being down meant much of the atmosphere didn't get onto the internet at the time. Of course you can catch up with the videos, including talks from Mark Shuttleworth and myself. Read More

Yes, time passes too fast. It's almost time for this year's Summer of Code midterm evaluation. During the week-end I "met" my two students online for a more in depth checkpoint than what we usually have and I'm quite pleased! I looked forward to Rutger and Gavin to pass onto me some of their youthful energy again. KDEPrint needs it. Read More

I've got pointed to http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/4030/first_look_asus Look! KDE as default on a laptop! And a meant-to-be-very-popular one! Big thanks, ASUS.

With all these blogs about how awful people's travelling experience has been from/to aKademy, I'd thought I blog a bit about mine. In short: my journey turned out better than expected. Read More