So back from Linuxtag, a four-day linux show in the heart of Germany, and probably one of the
best opportunities to meet KDE people other than aKademy.
I met Georg Greve there, whom I knew from the suspend2 mailinglist a couple of years ago where
he frequently hang out helping with debugging. He’s still running it to his content as he told me.
On saturday, we did the t-shirt and hug thing to celebrate KDE being associate of the FSFE now. I think it’s just
right, KDE being an independant, real community where the idea of freedom is one of the core values
and the FSFE as probably the biggest political organisation in Europe. We make a great couple
indeed. :-)
On saturday, we also met with some people of the Kubuntu crowd (well, I discussed some
powermanagement issues with amu and \sh earlier already). The meeting was meant to draft the future
of Kubuntu, and we did our best to develop ideas how KDE can play a role in making Kubuntu even
better. Mark Shuttleworth invited a couple of KDE people to Paris in June, probably not only because
I bribed him with a t-shirt. :-)
He also told that some of the next people to hire for Ubuntu will come from the KDE crowd, so issues
between the Ubuntu platform and the KDE desktop will surface earlier and can be fixed more quickly.
During his keynote, he addressed some of the more technical issues, such as integrating KDE’s
bugzilla with launchpad to make it easier to trace bugs in
the software stack.
Linuxtag was covered with a whole lot more of interesting discussions, meeting people, educating
people about KDE and demoing KDE.
One of the more interesting bits was the meeting with the OpenUsability we started off in a cafe
and then moved behind a screen to sit down and work out ideas we gathered previously. The idea in
question was to apply the results of our ongoing strategical analysis of target markets, filter them
through what makes sense from a usability point of view and develop ideas for KDE’s future. Funny
enough, right after the meeting, Tina dragged my attention to an
article that exactly described the technique we were using. We’re right now in the process of
getting the rough results of our meeting in shape.