This month’s Holland Open networking event was quite nice. First attended a presentation about
community, sharing knowledge within that. Close to things I’ve studied. Frightening, at least.
The day started off with a 35 EUR fine because I bought a salmon baguette instead of a train
ticket. Bummer, but probably a good lesson (never get up before half past seven again?). The
morning, we spent with a bunch of kids at a school in the South of the Netherlands, giving
instructions for becoming better geeks. In fact, they probably don’t need those, but some
explanation regarding subversion workflows will save them some time in the future. The real reason
we got there was vanity. NRC, a dutch quality paper, showed interest in CodeYard, and asked for an interview, which Adriaan, Jasper and I
were happy to give.
In the train to Delft, where the Holland Open networking event had to take place in a nice
building in the old centre of the City, I talked to a girl who had been working on a watermanagement
project in Bangladesh. We discussed merits of information technology for third world countries for
some time, and it was quite an informative and enjoyable chat. Actually, having a worn-out battery
in the laptop can have advantageous side-effects.
At the networking event itself, I talked to
quite some people, introduced Martijn and Claire whereever possible to reduce single points of
failure in KDE-NL’s relationships. I also talked to a couple of people, mostly about marketing
related issues, which left me wwith a longer list of “Oh, then you should read this!” items, which
I’m happy with. His presentation refered quite often to Crossing the Chasm, which only proves my
point. Everyone involved with KDE marketing should read that book.
Coming home after a 16 hours
day, I only had 80 emails to walk through, but Kim left me a pancake, so I had something to enjoy,
apart from flamewars and bikeshedding on different mailinglists.
Tomorrow: Brussels.
Hooray for unstructured blogentries!