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The KPhotoAlbum splash screen contest ended today, and a winner has been found, namely Jaroslav Holan's submission. Congratulation and thanks for all the nice splash screen submitted.

Development of search technology is advancing at a mindmaming pace. The groupphoto of aKademy is now powered by Strigi. This allows you to search developers in the picture. You can search for names, projects or vaguely related ideas such as 'undulating'. Read More

Paul Craig Roberts, a former Reagan administration treasure secretary, has written an article Why Bush Will Nuke Iran. It's scary. Read it. (Will it be possible to offset these plans? Who will block the Neocons' rampage?)

Project Plasmic-Raptor: Unified effort to build a appilcations and utility menu for KDE4. This project brings together all the people who are working on Menus for KDE. We are designing so that we can integrate the efforts from cools kickoff and ALI menu concept as well and Some things from KBFX. It's a nice feeling to be a member of such a team. Read More

The Strigi BoF went well and I'm pleased with the feedback. I'm glad most of the issues requested can be handle by Strigi or will be handled by the application coming from the Nepomuk project. Read More

I turned thirty yesterday. Still can't believe it... My wife came up with a really awesome present: a booklet containing an invitation for 100 different high sensation activities. These activities are as versatile as scuba diving, helicopter flying, bungee jumping, driving a Ferrari, an F3 or even a 2nd war assault tank (!), paragliding... Only problem: I must choose only one of them. And I'm afraid receiving the same present for the next years so that I can try the other activities is not an option... Read More

About a week ago, my laptop broke -- completely broke in the sense that not only does the machine not work any longer, it even trashed my whole harddisk. Now I'm at aKademy without a laptop and still one whole afternoon of the KDE e.V. general assembly left to sit through... Oh, how much I envy all those developers sitting in there with their laptops, hacking on KDE stuff! Read More

Top sign you worked too much on kdm I was in the talk of keithp and he referenced had on his slides "X -- ossified" and I was just thinking "no! you don't want that". After that I figured he didn't mean Oswald but open source. Read More

Once upon a time, there were all those nice, separate applications that were somehow meant for various PIM tasks like mail, calendar, addressbook, etc. To make the world an even better place (and to share resources), they decided to unite, join forces and create this wonderful application, called Kontact. Just like one large family, they worked together and due to the large number of active developers the project flourished. Read More

Yesterday, on the second conference day of aKademy 2006, the Kickoff talk was given by Coolo. It was well attended and received. Many questions afterwards including if simple calculations in the search line work like in mini cli (yes, they do). I took some few photos of the talk. It was video-taped like all others talks and will be available for download later. The Kickoff page in the openSUSE Wiki continues to fill up with goals of the project, the findings of the usability study and description of the current implementation. Some people asked and it seems others are also not aware that the source code of Kickoff is hosted and developed within KDE's SVN for some weeks: you can find it in branches/work/suse_kickoff/ - so get it and play with it! Read More