{"id":1299,"date":"2007-04-12T12:53:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T10:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/travelling-at-the-speed-of-snort\/"},"modified":"2007-04-12T12:53:22","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T10:53:22","slug":"travelling-at-the-speed-of-snort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/travelling-at-the-speed-of-snort\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelling at the speed of snort"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m currently on a train that left an hour ago in Brussels, and about to descend into a
\n \tlarge black
\n \thole<\/a> which will I’ll travel through for roughly 20 minutes, at 160km\/h and at 40m below sea
\nlevel.
\n \tExciting, if you’re aware of that. Other than that, having a cold and being in environment with
\nchanging
\n \tairpressure sucks since the cold makes it harder to decompress your ears.
\n \tIt seems travel season is in full swing again, mostly for the sake of Free Software (and
\nadmittedly a bit
\n \t of sightseeing and beer in between). I’ve been blogging very little lately since I just didn’t
\nfeel like
\n \t (which I should because communication is important, oh well).<\/p>\n

\tLate February, I’ve been to FOSDEM in Brussels (beer!), it’s been a great event, met lots of
\nnice people
\n \tamong them Trolltech’s community manager Knut Yrvin, some people from the SQO-OSS project, more
\nKDE
\n \tpeople. Knut, friendly as he is invited me to Oslo to sit down with Trolltech’s marketing people
\nin order
\n \tto have a look at how KDE and Trolltech can work together more closely on this topic. We synced
\nthe
\n \tmeeting with Aaron touching down for 36 hours in Oslo. Turns out that within Trolltech, most
\ndevelopers do
\n \tknow KDE very well, whereas the marketing it’s actually not that ubiquitous. :-) The meeting
\nwas
\n \tvery productive in terms of short-term items that we can work on (there’s new accessibility
\nfeatures in
\n \tQt4 that might be very important points when organisations think about deploying KDE, for
\nexample). We
\n \tcould also think about creating marketing material together — for Trolltech, it’s showcasing
\nQt, for KDE
\n \tit’s showing our balls.<\/p>\n

\tSo the train got into this big dark hole and the journey to London continues. Later today, we’ll
\njoin a
\n \tmeeting of the British Computer Society’s Open Source Specialist Group, featuring a talk about
\nan Open
\n \tSource approach to Healthcare automation, not exactly my domain of expertise, most probably
\ninteresting,
\n \tdefinitely followed op by a beer or two.<\/p>\n

\tTomorrow morning, the third SQO-OSS project meeting will kick off. Those meeting are essential
\nfor the
\n \tsuccess of a European research project such as SQO-OSS, it gives us the opportunity to talk
\nabout the
\n \tstuff we’re doing, mind you, not everyone is evenly communicative when it comes to email and
\ncommitlogs,
\n \tso I’m looking forward to some of the stuff others have been up to. Socialising with your
\ncolleagues that
\n \tare usually located across half of the continent is a good thing, too. Not at least, sitting on
\ntrains for
\n \tsix hours mandates to talk with your direct colleague (ade, taking a nap right next to me
\ntyping). I’ve
\n \ttaken a week off from work-work last week, the yield of that is some detailed ideas of what I’ll
\nbe
\n \tworking on within KDE the next time. It involves merchandising (made some mockups for t-shirts
\nfor
\n \taKademy, for example) and bringing KDE’s business
\ndirectory<\/a> back
\n \tto life by coupling it with KDE e.V.’s Supporting
\n \tMembership programme<\/a>. The latter needs more
\n \tthinking, both issues did not yet enter implementation stage.<\/p>\n

\tIn early May, I’ll be at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Sevilla, later in May, I’ll probably
\ntravel to
\n \tBerlin for Linuxtag2007. Oh, and Kim asked for a bit of vacation, too. ;-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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