Yay for Gay.

After Linuxtag had finished, a couple of gearheads went to Berlin Kreuzberg to grab some food and a drink in a quiet and not to crowded place. That didn't really work out, as we didn't think of Christopher Street Day. We quickly decided that it would be a fine alternative to have food and drinks in the streets and celebrated with another couple of hundred people until late at the night. As you can easily see on the photos, people were more than colourful, and it was a very friendly, laid back and fun event

Linuxtag itself was quite good, I was mostly there representing KDAB, but got some FLAs signed and also held a presentation on using KDE 4 on laptops and netbooks. I think I struck a good balance between technical background of power management related issues and things that are relevant to those who want to use KDE on those devices, and just want things to work (and possibly understand why they don't in some cases). After my own talk, I attended Will Stephenson's talk who put his salty fingers into some wounds we still have with KDE 4, and which are a problem for many user's experience with the desktop. Besides the fact that not all of our cool technologies haven't yet shown their full potential to the users, Will made a good point that we're kind of sticking our heads into the sand when it comes to a really good web experience when using KDE. I agree that we can do much better, and that we need to do something about Konqueror (or our default web browser, anyway) not being able to render many web pages people out there in the real world use.

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