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So, the KDE 4.2 release party in Oslo is over. We capped at around 12 people, and everyone had a great time :) We discussed free software, Qt (how couldn't we?), and various KDE technology/pillars. It was neat to see some non-trolls show up, and I'm tempted to host more small events to maybe create a local community. Concretely, this means that the next KDE Sunday (hacking/krush sessions) I'm hosting will be public. In otherwords- if you're in Oslo, then keep an eye on my blog for more announcements so that you can come and join us!
And now, time for some handsome devils depicted through blurry vision (cameraphone):
Leo, Thiago, Thomas, and Alexis cheering for Kde 4.2!
Olivier and Simon
Denis, Tobias, and $kde_user (sorry - forgot your name!)
Thanks to everyone who came to celebrate, and thanks to Bugges for hosting us! :D
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If you're in Oslo on the 30th of January then you're cordially invited to the KDE 4.2 release party at Bugges Cafe at 20:00.
Location info:
http://www.bugges.net/ombugges.html
If you haven't met the Qt trolls before, then this is your big chance! :)
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This is a post to test bilbo blogger again. Mtux mentioned improved Drupal support- so here we go! :)
This text should be bold
There should be a comic panel above.
This should also be tagged as noise and (new tag) bilbo.
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One one of the neat perks of Nokia aquiring Trolltech was that we all got cool new phones. Most chose the neato n95, which is effectively a camera with calling functionality. It takes great quality pictures, and thanks to its internal GPS, is able to geo-tag the photos with the coordinates of where it was taken. The question then of course is what will you do with all these photos and their metadata? A couple of KDE apps make it possible to view a selected photo on a map, but I wanted more. Enter Trippy!
Trippy uses Marble and Exiv2 to grab the GPS coordinates and timestamps from photos, and then pinpoint them on a map, drawing lines to "connect" the photos. The currently selected photo/route shows up as a red dot/line. The result is minimalistic application that focuses on just loading a directory of photos, and getting an overview of your journey and easily viewing the memories from it.
Currently it's hosted on Github:
http://github.com/jesper/trippy/tree/master
Usecase? Here's how my summer vacation looked:
Enjoy, and don't hesitate to fork on Github! ;)
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Wooo! Jet lag finally wore off, so I think it's about time to post some pictures from the great meeting I attended with the Japan KDE users group. After a treacherous journey riddled with re-routed flights and delays, I ended up going from a 15 hour landing-to-meeting buffer, down to 4. Luckily, I still made it in time to meet Daisuke and the others.
First we had a fun little history lesson, where the first president of the group re-told some adventures they had in the early days.
Followed by some nice presentations describing new stuff in KDE 4.x and even one on Qt 4.4 relating to KDE by yours truly. After it was all said and done, it was time to go out and have some fun.
We went to a traditional Japanese restaurant (name evades me), where we the interior/service matched the amazing cuisine. I love this place.
A curious topic during the dinner was about how long the group has been around. The JKUG has been around since at least 1999, making it almost a decade old - impressive! Are there any others out there that can claim the title of longest running active KUG, or do they have it?
Thanks JKUG guys! Hope to see you again some time!
Oh yeah, I almost forgot - I have to go to Belgium in August to repay eean for a lost bet we made in Austin.
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So, after spending a week in the US attending the Linux Collaboration Summit, I'm finally back, and slightly less jet lagged enough to write a small post about my journey. Although I haven't attended many conferences in my life, I have to say that this one was truly one of the best. The amount of talent mixed with collaboration was a spectacular sight. Indeed everyone was open to dialog, and wanting to to work together to bring Linux forward as a whole. Particularly interesting and inspiring to me was the talks by vendors and hardware people who are already now taking the first tangible steps to reaching the elusive year of the Linux desktop. The idea of creating a niche market for small or ultra inexpensive systems which basically work perfectly for anything but gaming is a really feasible and ideal market for a Linux based system to thrive and lead. The panel that presented that track proved that the industry has indeed noticed, and the manufacturers are pushing hard for the concept as well. Of course, I found it particularly exciting to hear the that Asus EeePc SDK will focus on Qt4, as you can see in the guide here. Enough chit chat, here's some eye candy:
Ever so famous Jon “Maddog” Hall. If you look closely in the background you can see Henrik presenting Qt 4.4 features as well ;)
I think this pic really expresses the mood on the mobile panel, where it felt like a free for all against Google (on the far right), and OpenMoko being the neutral party beside him. The most entertaining panel, but also the least productive in my opinion.
At the end of the first night we were taken to a really nice club/lounge place called Qua which has the worlds largest indoor aquarium in a club. Basically, the dance floor was literally a big shark tank. If this wasn't cool enough, J5 of fedora/gnome/d-bus fame managed to hook us up with a nice bar side alcho-pyrotechnic display:
We also got to visit Ranger, a really powerful supercomputer/grid which was recently built (running CentOS on Sun hardware). An ultra friendly diagram to show its power...
...of course, they needed to show their Texas pride as well! :)
After finishing up all the hard summit work, we had a little boat outing on lake Travis (we had 3 small fast boats and cruised around basically :))...
.ate some good tex-mex at a restaurant overlooking the lake...
...and finally ending the day screaming as you realize that you forgot to put some sun block on your legs!
A spectacular summit, and I really hope to go again next year!
