On monday, I went to Muenchen for the E*OS
municipal desktop to a KDE-based Linux solution. Way to go, Munich. The discussion was quite
interesting, and the people told us that the project was mostly fun. By 2008 they should be done,
and be able to take over the support slowly themselves (they clearly didn’t want to outsource). When
I handed over the KDE card, they smiled and immediately recognized it interestedly. We obviously
have friends there :-)
After the visit to LiMux, we were kindly invited by Till Jaeger, the lawyer of Harald Welte
of gpl-violations.org fame. Speaking with him was quite
interesting, he could bring a couple of new angles into our research for a quality standard for Open
Source services. He also was a nice guy and offered us very good cookies. Who said that lawyers
suck?
The next day, we went to the university to visit the department of business informatics and
talked about modularity of IT services. Interestingly, we came to the conclusion that market share
is one means to measure quality, that immediately brought up my question about how you could measure
it, because that’s where we’re stuck within the freedesktop.org forum at the moment. Not really new
insight, but still, a new wire in my personal agenda… :>
Insane trip though, travelling 1500km by car in two days. :/
Today, it was CodeYard time again. The students of Koning Willem II College in Tilburg (NL) presented their final
projects. They automated different kinds of shops, one of the teams even built a robot which could
be used to compile orders from the magazine, well proof-of-concept, but very nice to see actually.
In other news, we were able to collect sponsors to finally be able to give green light for
the multimedia developers meeting in the Netherlands, second half of may, and I’m proposing a paper
to the DesktopCon committee. Hope I’ll be able to make
it to Canada in July, but that’s still quite far away. It would be a good opportunity to strengthen
our collaboration with other desktop-related projects, though.
Next week, I’ll go to Wiesbaden to visit Linuxtag,
we’re putting together the first version of the KBoothbox there, and it’s a great opportunity to
talk to a couple of people in person, after all, e-mail often just doesn’t cut it. A friend was kind
enough to invite me to his place where I can spend the nights, hopefully getting a little sleep. See
you in Wiesbaden!