Kim and me have finally finished the new cage of the chinchillas, so yesterday was the day –
well the night – they could move into their new home. It vastly imcreases the space they have,
roughly by a factor of three. We also equipped the cage with a small wooden ‘house’, so the two
chins can retract during the day and find some rest. They immediately liked the new cage and it was
really nice to see them exploring everything in an excited way.
The last weeks have KDE-wise been pretty hard work, we’re getting the Multimedia meeting
into shape. This process is now developing from finding sponsors to more practical things, cash
flow, creating a webpage, all that stuff. Other hot items are the business cards, their workflow is
– thanks to Martijn’s great effort – getting more and more into shape. Hopefully we’re able to
deliver the long-needed cards to their owners within the next couple of weeks, so please bear with
us a little more. Preparations for Linuxtag are also in full swing, writing a press release, getting
some documentation for the booth team into shape, solving a couple of smaller logistical problems
such as buying a train ticket despite the Dutch Railways best efforts
in preventing me from doing it. We’re also quite close to setting up a press channel, so we can
inform interested journalists more effectively of what’s happening in KDE. On the other hand, it’s
good to see how much is happening, and that the Marketing Team is going forward at full steam.
My paper I submitted to FrOSCon has been accepted, so
I’ll talk there about Marketing KDE. I’m kinda looking forward to this opportunity since my
presentation at FOSDEM back in february has been received very well. I’ve submitted another proposal
to DesktopCon which will take place in Ottawa in July. I’d
like to use desktopcon as an opportunity to get in closer contact with a couple of guys from the
other side of the pond to streamline marketing efforts on the freedesktop.org platform.