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Short personal notice: I am currently in Cologne for a business trip lasting two weeks so I am staying over the weekend. If any KDE people around Cologne want to go for a beer until next Thursday, let me know :) Read More

Today is the second and last day of the Calligra Words mini-sprint. After spending yesterdays first day on planing and implementation of decisions made we spent today on solving all kind of problems that showed up since then. Read More

Yesterday's App Developer Week talk on Bazaar Explorer went well. See the logs if you missed it. Tonight I'm giving a real life talk at my old user group Falkirk LUG about Kubuntu and Bazaar. Read More

I'm giving a talk on Bazaar Explorer as part of Ubuntu App Developer Weeks. Starts at 17:00UTC in #ubuntu-classroom on freenode IRC.

Actually it's day #2 already since Boemann and myself already started hacking away yesterday evening when I arrived at his place in Denmark. The main goal of our small mini-sprint is to address the various problems we have within Calligra Words with anchors and anchoring objects and text running around such anchored objects. Read More

"World must be crazy" say fellow hackers when realized that one day I left Samsung's Linux Mobile Lab to work on Smart Refrigerators. But well, it's still in the same company, the same city. Yet this does not mean I am stopping to dig in Linux stuff for living: we're talking about Linux fridges. Read More

The Berlin Desktop Summit was great, and I think it is about time I wrote something about my thoughts. I look forward to software conferences because you can never tell which ideas will excite you most. In 2011 I would expect to be wowed by the latest in tablets or 3D rendering stuff, but actually it turned out that 3D printers and a bad attempt to build a toaster from first principles were what left me with the deepest impression at the Summit. Michael Meeks gave a Lightning Talk on his 3D printer RepRap project. It was really funny, about how he built five iterations of his printer, with each generation printing the next printer. Sadly it seemed his wife's nylons suffered in the cause of science, but holy crap I'd personally happily donate my socks to further such an awsome project. I don't know how Michael does it, I am a big fan of his blogs where he describes his thoughts on software such as Libre Office, massive child rearing efforts, attempts to fix his plumbling, lots of stuff on learning Christianity and of course those 3D printers. I couldn't actually write a blog like that because I personally manage to do bugger all apart from mainly writing software, listening to music and drinking a lot of beer, and if I wrote about my life, by comparison sadly it would be a bit of a dull read. Oh well. I can only think about one thing for years on end it seems, and I wish I was more of a generalist like Michael. But if I wanted to think about one thing, there couldn't be many better topics than self replicating machines. Read More

These are the people who make your computers free! Still 145 to name, additions welcome.

Thanks to our fabulous sysadmin team KDE now has a Jenkins installation[1] that serves kdelibs (KDE/4.7), kde-runtime and kdepim* (all master). The plan is to have this as a pilot and if that goes well expand to include all (main) modules, stable and master branches. Read More

The Desktop Summit 2011 Group photo needs your help! Please find all the unnamed people (most of them Gnomers) and add their names, irc nicks and affiliations to this etherpad document. Type "xxx" for the unnamed ones. Read More