{"id":1285,"date":"2007-07-07T18:03:04","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T16:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/wrapping-up\/"},"modified":"2007-07-07T18:03:04","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T16:03:04","slug":"wrapping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/wrapping-up\/","title":{"rendered":"wrapping up."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things at aKademy are starting to wrap up. The last few days have been very intensive,<br \/>\n\tlots of talking, meeting new and old people, solving problems such as &#8220;Where&#8217;s a free bed<br \/>\n\tbecause the hostel has screwed up *again*?&#8221;, &#8220;Where the hell did DHL deliver the<br \/>\n\tmerchandise?&#8221; (Certainly not to the address that was written on the packages, but to a<br \/>\n\trandom motorcycle shop where the box sat for a week. DHL wasn&#8217;t reliable for us at all.)<\/p>\n<p \/>\n\tGreat progress has been made on current state the KDE4 desktop, to a state where most<br \/>\n\tapplications work quite well, Plasma is taking shape, lots of people are writing<br \/>\n\tDataEngines and Plasmoids &#8230; it&#8217;s shaping up really nicely now and we&#8217;re starting to<br \/>\n\treap from the effort that has gone into it over the past years. We&#8217;re still in the phase<br \/>\n\twhere pieces fall into place.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n\tOne of the most important things to me at aKademy is the community. It&#8217;s simply great to<br \/>\n\tmeet such a lot of nice people. While I&#8217;m really tired after a whole week of conferencing,<br \/>\n\thacking, BoF&#8217;ing and &#8216;socialising&#8217;, I&#8217;m extremely excited by the current state of the<br \/>\n\tcommunity. There&#8217;s both, old and new people who are working on all kinds of things, the<br \/>\n\tcommunity is really healthy as it is, and everything looks very promising. I&#8217;m right now<br \/>\n\tcompiling kdegames for tomorrow&#8217;s 13-hour-train trip, and I&#8217;ve downloaded some of the<br \/>\n\tvideos of talks from last weekend that I&#8217;ve missed. Back home, I&#8217;ll catch up on sleep and<br \/>\n\tstart working on the aftermath of aKademy.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n\tYesterday, Danny Kukawka of kpowersave fame, Kevin Ottens, the Master of Solid and I sat<br \/>\n\ttogether to discuss how powermanagement in KDE 4 should look like. We came up with a nice<br \/>\n\tarchitecture, having a policy agent (which is a new version of kpowersave), a plasmoid to<br \/>\n\tshow current state of things and of course Solid providing us with most of the API that&#8217;s<br \/>\n\tneeded for this. Powermanagement in KDE has not exactly been unified in KDE3, but as it&#8217;s<br \/>\n\tnow, things look very promising for KDE4.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n    I&#8217;ll stop rambling now and prepare for the night activities, which is &#8220;taking the<br \/>\n    organising crew out in order to thank them for their outstanding contribution to KDE. The<br \/>\n    conference went very smooth. This doesn&#8217;t happen by itself but requires a huge amount of<br \/>\n    work, discipline and dedication.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n    <strong>A huuuuuuge thank you to Kenny Duffus and his team!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;Where&#8217;s a free bed because the hostel has screwed up *again*?&#8221;, &#8220;Where the hell did DHL deliver the merchandise?&#8221; (Certainly not to the address that was written&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/wrapping-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">wrapping up.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}