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I'm done triaging old photos, here's some of my favourite Ubuntu themed ones from 2005 to 2009. The first Ubuntu conference I went to in Sydney featuring Andreas, one of the Kubuntu originators Read More

I've also been triaging old photos to make some room on my server, so here's a Christmas present of a retrospective of old KDE photos. It all started here, my first KDE talk about Umbrello, my dissertation project. (And if anyone else is needing a dissertation to work on, I recommend a KDE project, take over Umbrello, academics love that UML stuff, it's a guaranteed A). Read More

Kexi usage statistics is an experiment started two years along with Kexi 2.4. The information helps to make certain decisions related to design and direction of the project. Today I'd like to show you first results. Read More

#savetheday party 19:50UTC in Munich and #kubuntu-devel from a project which has always taken inspiration from the Timelord.

Two of my favourite things in one evening. Save the Day viewing! Who's your favourite Doctor? Followed by the Munich city Kubuntu rollout viewing, amazing how they have saved so much money but they did it for Freedom.

We're having a great meeting here in Munich, last night we collected a range of topics to chat about and today we've been moving post-it notes about as we discuss topics and fix problems. I'm enjoying it a lot. Read More

We're meeting in Munich at the offices of LiMux who have just completed their transition to convert the whole of public administration in Munich to Kubuntu, over 15,000 computers. Tux is supporting the wrong football team Read More

It's little advertised but KDE has an office in Barcelona. With Scotland getting cold, dark and wet I set off in search of sun and colleagues to have a change of scene and improve my health after a surgeon poked needles into my eye. Read More

Linuxcon ended in spectacular style with a party at the National Museum of Scotland, shown here with the interesting addition of a full marching band. Dolly the sheep was supposed to be on display but ran off at the sound of the bagpipes. Read More

Linus is visiting Edinburgh today for a Q&A session at LinuxCon. Asked where he'd like to see Linux in 5 years time he said he started Linux because he wanted to use it on his desktop but he's been disappointed how that hasn't taken off. He wishes desktop communities would stop arguing amongst competing technologies and would work together. How true. (And I continue to feel smug about being part of a community which hasn't started a new project to replace any desktop or desktop technology). Read More