wrapping up.

Things at aKademy are starting to wrap up. The last few days have been very intensive, lots of talking, meeting new and old people, solving problems such as "Where's a free bed because the hostel has screwed up *again*?", "Where the hell did DHL deliver the merchandise?" (Certainly not to the address that was written on the packages, but to a random motorcycle shop where the box sat for a week. DHL wasn't reliable for us at all.)

Great progress has been made on current state the KDE4 desktop, to a state where most applications work quite well, Plasma is taking shape, lots of people are writing DataEngines and Plasmoids ... it's shaping up really nicely now and we're starting to reap from the effort that has gone into it over the past years. We're still in the phase where pieces fall into place.

One of the most important things to me at aKademy is the community. It's simply great to meet such a lot of nice people. While I'm really tired after a whole week of conferencing, hacking, BoF'ing and 'socialising', I'm extremely excited by the current state of the community. There's both, old and new people who are working on all kinds of things, the community is really healthy as it is, and everything looks very promising. I'm right now compiling kdegames for tomorrow's 13-hour-train trip, and I've downloaded some of the videos of talks from last weekend that I've missed. Back home, I'll catch up on sleep and start working on the aftermath of aKademy.

Yesterday, Danny Kukawka of kpowersave fame, Kevin Ottens, the Master of Solid and I sat together to discuss how powermanagement in KDE 4 should look like. We came up with a nice architecture, having a policy agent (which is a new version of kpowersave), a plasmoid to show current state of things and of course Solid providing us with most of the API that's needed for this. Powermanagement in KDE has not exactly been unified in KDE3, but as it's now, things look very promising for KDE4.

I'll stop rambling now and prepare for the night activities, which is "taking the organising crew out in order to thank them for their outstanding contribution to KDE. The conference went very smooth. This doesn't happen by itself but requires a huge amount of work, discipline and dedication.

A huuuuuuge thank you to Kenny Duffus and his team!

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