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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

I've started to work more and more on Kreative3D. Although it's not useful for anything right now, I expect that I can have 2d sketching done within a month or two. For those of you who don't know anything about parametric solid modelling a sketchplane is a plane in 3d space where you can draw on. And sketching is the process of drawing on that surface. Read More

Well, I'm back from Glasgow and have now almost recovered. The conference was great, and I'd like to thank all the organising team for their efforts. For me things were quite productive, with some nice steps forward in my QtScript code (my bindings are now dynamically loaded plugins for example) and lots of useful discussions about topics from improving the library facilities for scripts. I also managed to make a start on a plasma applet container that lets you write applets in Javascript. Read More

There is just so much I wanted to tell during the offline weeks :) Didn't miss akademy, had bad weather myself Our future is still "in utero" My faster booting project is finished - I blame you can't boot faster into a konsole window without optimizing for a specific setup Won "Best Overall Project" in the hack week event together with Dr. Richi Dirk is the admin hero of the week, the month and the year

Thanks to a yet to be announced generous sponsor (also the first non-Novell sponsor to the openSUSE project) is the openSUSE Build Service running like on steroids since last week: over 120 CPUs are now available in the build host farm. And the new hosts' disc systems are also very fast. That's enough power to rebuild the openSUSE:Factory project within a few hours. And of course it's nice for packagers: no longer waiting for your builds to start. At least I as heavy user don't remember having to wait for it anymore the whole last week. :-) Read More

This week is Hack Week at Novell. All the Linux engineers are hacking along on their favorite projects. There is an incredibly long list of great ideas on idea.opensuse.org. I'm working on some kind of fancy aggregating portal. I'm not completely sure yet, where this will lead to, but I have already created a sophisticated design document and made a mockup. Read More