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Congratulations to Stephan on his KDE-related job. My condolences to Jess and Ian. Take care!

After describing how I traveled to San Francisco and the first and second days at the LinuxWorldExpo, here comes a brief synopsis of the last day on the Linuxprinting.org and KDE booths. Before starting, I should mention a fact that amused and cheered many at the end of the day 2, about which I forgot to write yesterday. As I said, the second day seemed a bit slower than the first. Towards the end of the day, Nathan Krause had the idea of organizing a shout-out in which passers-by would express their attachement to KDE as loud as they could and in exchange they would receive from the KDE booth staffers a Xandros Linux CDs box. It all ended up with some startling shouting and and cheering, with loud "I love KDE"s resounding throughout the second floor. One of the SNORT guys, who had the booth just across from KDE's, proved to have one mightily handsome set of lungs and vocal cords and won indisputably. Read More

KDE and LinuxPrinting.org at LWE, now in color: Setting up the booths in the .org pavilion Visitors in the first day: Charles Samules (right) and David Johnson at the KDE booth: Read More

LWE-SF 2005 is over. I'm back to the normal schedule now. Here is the fasttrack of getting back home. 5h30 - wake up, shower, check room, check baggages. 6h30 - breakfast, alone. 7h00 - check out and fix the bill. On my way to the airport. 8h30 - checkin to the flight back. 9h30 - I find out from a gentle family of french people that the barril of oil blew up to 66$. Harsh times await us all... 10h30 - takeoff 15h00 (18h00 Mtl. time) - landing. Very nice flight. 19h20 - finally get the baggages, after 1h20 of stupid waiting. 19h30 - find my car in perfect shape in the long-time parking lot. 22h00 - home! Read More

As posted before, we have regular Open Software Usability meetings in Berlin. This week, we'll talk about a future frontend for browsing with Tenor, KDE's contextual linking engine. Scott will be there to provide us with information on Tenor's background and the data structure. Read More

There is a really good series of articles on hierarchies and usability at the SAP Design Guild site which ever developer should read: http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/design.asp (look in the left side menu for the hierarchy articles) Read More

Ok this morning I decided to implement SOAP support to M.2. I thought nothing can be worse than SNMP specs but I was wrong ... this thing is evil, truely evil but since it's a standard, I will probably spend the next 3 or 5 years cursing while trying to get it work :D so see then Read More

Now I'm back at home, after a very well filled-up days in SF then in Québec. I didn't manage to write down about the happenings in SF while still there and I'm a bit whisked about that. But hey, life is like that. Read More

Well, I've been so busy lately that I haven't had time to tell much of what I'm doing. I've given 5 KDE talks in 2 weeks (3 one week, 2 at the next weekend). One in Tenerife at the Summer Courses of the "Universidad de Verano de Adeje", two at the Campus Party (in Valencia) and another 2 at Mollina, Málaga, into the second technological days of Free Software in Andalucia. I've met many people (some old good friends, some new friends), and everyone was great. Read More

Last week, I came across a user survey on blog clients. The aim of the study is to identify and understand the users' goals and tasks, tools and features they currently use for blogging as well as problems and changes they would like to see in their clients. The special thing about it: The developers ask all these questions before actually starting to program, namely in the planning phase. The project I am talking about has just registered on OpenUsability, the desktop and handheld blogging software "Expressions" (OSS, of course). Read More