Things at aKademy are starting to wrap up. The last few days have been very intensive,
lots of talking, meeting new and old people, solving problems such as “Where’s a free bed
because the hostel has screwed up *again*?”, “Where the hell did DHL deliver the
merchandise?” (Certainly not to the address that was written on the packages, but to a
random motorcycle shop where the box sat for a week. DHL wasn’t reliable for us at all.)
applications work quite well, Plasma is taking shape, lots of people are writing
DataEngines and Plasmoids … it’s shaping up really nicely now and we’re starting to
reap from the effort that has gone into it over the past years. We’re still in the phase
where pieces fall into place. One of the most important things to me at aKademy is the community. It’s simply great to
meet such a lot of nice people. While I’m really tired after a whole week of conferencing,
hacking, BoF’ing and ‘socialising’, I’m extremely excited by the current state of the
community. There’s both, old and new people who are working on all kinds of things, the
community is really healthy as it is, and everything looks very promising. I’m right now
compiling kdegames for tomorrow’s 13-hour-train trip, and I’ve downloaded some of the
videos of talks from last weekend that I’ve missed. Back home, I’ll catch up on sleep and
start working on the aftermath of aKademy. Yesterday, Danny Kukawka of kpowersave fame, Kevin Ottens, the Master of Solid and I sat
together to discuss how powermanagement in KDE 4 should look like. We came up with a nice
architecture, having a policy agent (which is a new version of kpowersave), a plasmoid to
show current state of things and of course Solid providing us with most of the API that’s
needed for this. Powermanagement in KDE has not exactly been unified in KDE3, but as it’s
now, things look very promising for KDE4. I’ll stop rambling now and prepare for the night activities, which is “taking the
organising crew out in order to thank them for their outstanding contribution to KDE. The
conference went very smooth. This doesn’t happen by itself but requires a huge amount of
work, discipline and dedication. A huuuuuuge thank you to Kenny Duffus and his team!