{"id":1288,"date":"2007-06-28T14:39:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T12:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/akademy-preps-and-swag\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T14:39:59","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T12:39:59","slug":"akademy-preps-and-swag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/akademy-preps-and-swag\/","title":{"rendered":"aKademy preps and swag."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vizzzion.org\/images\/blog\/pillow-konqi.jpg\" title=\"Silken hand-made konqi pillow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vizzzion.org\/images\/blog\/pillow-konqi-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Silken hand-made konqi pillow\" title=\"Silken hand-made konqi pillow\" align=\"right\" class=\"showonplanet\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n    So yeah, I&#8217;m obviously on a blogging spree. Meanwhile, aKademy is getting closer, 1.5 days and the<br \/>\n    most important conference of the year (to me, that is) gets kicked off by Lars Knoll in Glasgow.<br \/>\n    Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll spend most of the day on various trains between Nijmegen (NL) and Glasgow. There&#8217;s<br \/>\n    flooding in Northern England reported, so it&#8217;s a bit unsure whether Adriaan and I will arrive in<br \/>\n    time for a quick meeting of the board in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n    Today&#8217;s packing, charging batteries and printing stuff (I usually take a cheatsheet with me,<br \/>\n    containing address of the hotel and other things I might need on the journey) is pretty much<br \/>\n    the climax of the preparations last week. And some things aren&#8217;t solved yet. Such as the Indian<br \/>\n    contributor who was late deciding that he&#8217;d actually want to go to aKademy, and who&#8217;s visa was<br \/>\n    refused the first time he applied. This means a couple of phonecalls to India, faxing the same<br \/>\n    document various times and crossing fingers. Tonight, he&#8217;ll hear if his visa finally is accepted<br \/>\n    so het can get on his plane tomorrow. Close call, let&#8217;s all hope we&#8217;ll see him in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n    Then there&#8217;s lots of merchandising stuff that has been designed and ordered during the last weeks.<br \/>\n    A couple of t-shirts which will change owner in Glasgow to travel on to Canada and the United States<br \/>\n    and quite some other really cool swag. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll see some of this on the blogs from<br \/>\n    Glasgow in the course of next week. We&#8217;re seeking at making this stuff available online, but not<br \/>\n    all the details have been sorted out yet. If you&#8217;re looking for something really special for a<br \/>\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/wadejolson.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/26\/another-virtual-high-five-for-another-gearhead\/\">gearhead<\/a>,<br \/>\n    have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schenken-leicht-gemacht.de\/kissentux.htm\">this page<\/a>.<br \/>\n    I&#8217;ve got one of those silken pillow those, they&#8217;re really nice (and you know what you&#8217;ll be<br \/>\n    dreaming of).<\/p>\n<p \/>\n    See you on Saturday!<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yeah, I&#8217;m obviously on a blogging spree. Meanwhile, aKademy is getting closer, 1.5 days and the most important conference of the year (to me, that is) gets kicked off by Lars Knoll in Glasgow. Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll spend most of the day on various trains between Nijmegen (NL) and Glasgow. There&#8217;s flooding in Northern England&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/akademy-preps-and-swag\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">aKademy preps and swag.<\/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-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","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=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}