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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.

It was good to make it to the Desktop Summit in Berlin this year and to see some familiar KDE faces again. I feel that I've been able to catch up a bit on news about many of the interesting projects that are happening in our KDE community and also in the greater FOSS desktop community. Read More

A slight delay of my flight from Düsseldorf to Graz gives me time to recap the awesome time at the Desktop Summit 2011 in Berlin. Having been part of the programme committee I was looking forward to see at least a small subset of the talks live, though I hope I will have the opportunity to see many more once the videos have been processed and are available online. Read More

At the Desktop Summit it was pointed out that Bazaar lacked integration with Dolphin. Of course Bazaar's main GUI is the cross platform Qt based Bzr Explorer. But there is also value in integrating with the tools that are natively part of a desktop. So I've coded up Dolphin integration with the world's finest revision control system.. Read More

I went to the Desktop Summit in Berlin where more than 700 people from Gnome, KDE and elsewhere met for talks and beer. Canonical has a sensible policy of needing a report back from any conference we go to so here's mine.. Read More

Unfortunately my server decided to die today... I've managed to get the most important stuff up again but the Jenkins instance is toast. That is the actual Jenkins server is alive but there is no resources for the build slave, so for all intents it's dead. Read More

Hi, the KDE buildsystem BoF/meeting/whatever you want to call it/ will be Monday, at 8:00 PM (i.e. in the evening) in the restaurant/cafe St.Oberholz: http://www.sanktoberholz.de/?page_id=13 According to Claudia they are used to geeks sitting around and discussing :-) Read More