First Plasma BoF in the Sea.

Note to self: Just blog, don't ask Blauzahl if the picture is good enough, you can always fix it up latah!
Thursday night, I arrived in Kingston, Jamaica after a long, trip. Roger had hooked me up with Michael (who had, the night before also Jos had the pleasure to be Michael's guest). Michael has been a very nice and caring host. He put me to bed after a marathon of something close to 40 hours without a bed (but the occasional 1-hour-naps on the plane). The plane had taken me from Amsterdam to London to Miami (insert bitching about U.S. customs here).
I arrived in Kingston roughly two hours late because there had been some fuel leaking into the engine. Apparently the crew didn't feel comfortable to fly my last hop without having it checked by two groups of engineers. After an hour or so, we the problem was fixed and we flew over to Jamaica. Michael picked me up from the airport, got me some good food and put me to bed, which was needed after a long trip. Thanks dude for caring for me so well!
Finally, I had made my way to Jamaica.

The next day I slept in a bit and ate a large amount of really good fruit, including melon, sugar cane, grapes, ... Then, Grandville, a friendly taxi driver picked me up to go by the University of the West Indies, to pick up Richard and Monika, two students attending CampKDE and some recording gear.

The next 4 - 5 hours, we drove from Kingston to Negril, a good 200km. The trip was mostly fun, we talked about music and Jamaica, I saw a lot of the inner-Jamaican scenery, we had some patties (Jamaican pasty stuffed with beef) and spicy shrimps on the way. When we arrived in Negril, it was already way beyond dusk, and most of the KDE folks that had arrived already were having foods and drinks near the beach. I met Dmitry here, who happens to be one the same racing team as Grandville, our taxi driver (not kidding!).

After the usual (but pleasurable) hugfest that's inevitable when seeing all the people again, we went for a Plasma BoF in the sea (which was still nice and warm). Points of discussion were mostly the ZUI, its usecases, how it's related to virtual desktops, and what we think we'd need to do to make it really usable. We also talked a bit about documentation issues, developer documentation for libplasma, documentation for scripting Plasmoids, and user-oriented documentation. Blauzahl told us that one problem of triaging Plasma bugs is that people often don't really know what's what and that the BugSquad in turn has a hard time to get useful bugreports. Something that can easily be solved with an annotated screenshots (this is the one that needs a better version).

[ Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:00:38 +0100 ] permanent link

This weblog does currently not offer the option to comment. I would be happy to receive an email with your thoughts.

Weblog Archive