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WOW — is all I can think about this years aKademy.

I skipped Glasgow and I came back this year because aKademy is always a big boost in energy. I really missed it last year. It is just incredible how many smart, interesting and energetic people build the KDE community.

The trip started with meeting Kevin in Frankfurt and others in Bruxelles and then even more in Mechelen. And the fact I really liked was me having to walk up to the hostel after meeting about 20 people with blue lanyards and one with blue hair until I found the next face I knew. (Ok, I am cheating I knew Lubos)

The KDE community grew a lot and I loved sitting outside or in the lecture halls somewhere and just watch all the conversation and fun and hacking going on.

There were all the other things making aKademy the great experience it always is to me. Interesting people to talk to. Interesting topics to talk about. Interesting discussions to listen to. Interesting beer to drink. Interesting food to eat.  (do I sound like Spock already?)

A Big Thank You to Baart, Wendy and the other wearers of the golden lanyard!

Cheers to all the incredible KDE people making this community happen.

I did not get much work done, but when was that ever possible at aKademy :)  I started working on the backlog for worldwide. planet got some love, waiting for others to finish things now, and I made some plans for docs.

Sitting in Cologne now. Having a beer on a hotel balcony, enjoying the sun and hacking on designs and stuff. Fresh energy ftw.

P.S. People I owe a beer, details of when and where I can pay my debts in the comments please

I volunteered to integrate the slides sent to me into the akademy webpage. Some remarks on that.

• Please send your slides to endres@kde.org
• My “system” to process the slides is better than last year, so I will not loose any slides, just because they were sent too early. (not being busy at aKademy might help in that )
• Please send the slides in PDF format if possible. While ODP format sounds nice, it has the downside of fonts and sometimes graphics not being displayed the way you carefully designed them to. If I export to PDF, your presentation might look quite different from what you did.
• Send them ASAP, people want to know what is going on (I do )

I only received two presentations so far - hooray to Benjamin Reed (talk) and Richard Moore (talk) - so there is still room for improvement.

KDE Worldwide got an update. Yeah!

Sorry for not updating it for so long, but I had to rebuild the toolchain and too many things interfered.

KDE Worldwide will get some major updates over the next days, bringing it into modern times. You will be suprised

Providing Marble and Google Earth compatible data files is just the start of upcoming things.

I have some cleanup to do, since some people ended up on the wrong side of the world or in the middle of an ocean. I will improve verifing your entry a lot.

So current data, nice features coming and my head full of future plans for the upcoming new KDE website. World domination here we come.

Since I was to lazy to count the people, I counted the laptops running during the accessibility talk.

fiftyeight!

And there were more people not running one.

Room stuffed and Olaf giving a very good presentation. I love aKademy!

So the second day of my aKademy experience is going at full speed.

We had some nice welcoming words and Aaron undulated his wontoness in a short technical break during his keynote, yeah. (better covered elsewhere, perheaps)

Ellen gave a nice talk which made it much clearer to me how usability experts are taking a different approach to looking at applications and especially features than developers in the general Open Source project. Something to keep in mind

Aaron did not undulate his wontoness in his Plasma talk. No eyecandy but nice overview and technical informations and motivation backgrounds. After he was giving a nice keynote summing up who we are and where we are heading, he is now free to be hassled, since he has no talk to prepare :). Hope his sildes are online soon. Some nice thoughts in there, but I forgot to take notes.

Everybody seemed to have nice time at the Pub yesterday. Meeting all the people coming to aKademy who are “not yet a developer” but traveling to the conference and being enthusiastic about KDE was a nice conclusion of my first day in Dublin. Nice to see the KDE community continuing to attract smart and interesting people.