Last weekend, I’ve been to Berlin to attend the meeting of the KDE e.V. board. Together with Cornelius, Eva and Mirko. We discussed
issues such as what needs to be done for aKademy2006 and reports of the different Working Groups of
KDE. Mostly boring stuff though. The meeting went really well, and we managed to go through a pile
of topics within our planned schedule.
Saturday night, Ellen invited us to join her to go to a party. An your later, we arrived at
a very nice techno party where the ‘not-so-shallow’ part of
Berlin’s nightlife took place. Good to see that Berlin hasn’t changed too much recently.
I’ve written that the battery of my
notebook is pretty worn out, so I decided to replace that thing (the whole notebook though). My
requirements were 14″ in 4:3, long battery life, a good keyboard and a high-res display. The 14″ and
4:3 cuts down the number of possibilities to about two models. Dell sells crappy keyboards, so the
model I’ve ordered is a Thinkpad
T60. Unfortunately there’s one minor problem with it – no video driver for Linux. ATi
has not yet released a linux driver for the radeon 500 (r500) chip that’s needed for the integrated
X1300 video adapter. So I’ll be bound to use the VESA driver in the meantime. I hope that vesa-tng
works though, because it’s much faster than ‘standard’ vesa, and the standard driver also doesn’t
support a resolution of 1400×1050 pixels. Not the optimal solution though, but still a very nice
notebook. If someone from ATi reads this, PLEASE IMPROVE YOUR LINUX SUPPORT!
Then, there’s kde-promo. Recently, we’ve got a few additional contributors to join. There’s
Jasper, one of my officemates, he’ll tackle the taskmanagement system for SpreadKDE, Barbara, who volunteered to keep track of events,
Joerg, who’s collecting things to do to have a boothbox (a box with all kinds of stuff you need at
events, that can be shipped through Europe to have available at events), Danil, who’s taking care of
screenshots for the 3.5 branch, Friedrich, who’ll be consolidating the events webpages … Hack,
listing up the things that are currently happening gets me a smile on the face. (And that’s
something I really needed lately, since a hellofalottawork has been cutting down my spare time
during the last weeks to zero). So thanks everyone stepping up. (And if you want to get involved
with all those cool people from the promo team, we’re
“hiring”).
Again, my conclusion is that the KDE community really rocks (and ATi less-so).
:-)