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(Not directly KDE related, though likely of interest to many of you here :) Sorry for the noise to the rest of you!)
Long time no blog! Just wanted to draw your attention to this neato competion my (new) employer (Mendeley) is currently running; a chance to flaunt awesome KDE technology in the face of academia and rake in some nice cash:
Basically, you register for an API key and then make some neat hacks/apps! Grand prize is 10k $! Second place is 1k $ + a quadrocopter! Tons of money!
Register for an API key. Use a nice library like kQOAuth for the oauth stuff, then hack away!
Of course, when I saw this I immediately thought of a couple of neat mashups/plugins possible with existing KDE apps - but alas, employees may not enter - so I leave it to you!
Good luck and happy hacking :)
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Just want to wish everyone and their loved ones an amazing 2011.
May your code always compile, your design always be flawless, and bugs non-existent!
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Shameless plug to a post written by yours truly on the Qt Labs page that fellow KDE folks may find interesting:
How to file a Qt bug report in the new bug tracker
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Just a heads up to any readers who are in Chile (or South America for that matter) that feel like they would like to make some new KDE friends. There is an active KDE chile group on google groups which you really should subsribe to and check out.
http://groups.google.com/group/kde-chile/
(Some of the kde-chile folks and myself at Encuentro Linux 2009)
That's all! Keep on hacking and have fun! :)
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So a child of the frigid north found his way all the way to the other side of the world for yet another spectacular free software conference. This time it's to celebrate the Encuentro Linux conference 2009 in Valparaiso/Vina del Mar in sunny Chile.
Hosted at the picturesque Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, this conference has attracted hundreds of Linux enthusiasts, students, and business folks. With a view like this, it's no wonder that you often see people standing outside discussing their software, instead of the auditoriums and class rooms:
(View from outside the conference entrance)
The main reason I'm attending the conference is to spread the word and raise awareness of everyones favorite toolkit and desktop - Qt and KDE!
I presented two talks - one more technical on the various Qt modules available and how you can use them. A (demo-effect riddled) presentation on using Qt Creator to make a web browser in 5 minutes as well guiding through the other tools included with Qt. Thanks to Henrik for large parts of this presentation.
Also, I presented an introduction to the KDE project and an overview of KDE4. KDE has so much to show that 1 hour only gave me enough time to scratch the surface - bummer! Thanks as well to Sebas for large parts of this presentation.
(Encuentro folks enjoying the good weather and discussing important topics like Linux and Freud)
It's worth noting that the food here is spectacular. For instance, even "fast food" like the Chorrillana (sp?) has the lowly Oslo kebab/shoarma beat on every metric!
(Miguel in a chorrillana mode)
All in all this conference is off to a great start and I'm already enjoying day 2 as I write this blog while listening to Lady GaGa in the "penguin room".
Oh yeah...and thanks Nokia for taking me from -2 degree Oslo weather walking to work, to 24 degrees of South American awesomeness!
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The Grand Canaria Desktop Summit has been incredible so far. The amount of talent and enthusiasm for Free Software has not only been amazing, but equally impressive and inspiring. The GNOME and KDE folks talking openly and discussing future plans - proving - that the so called "desktop flame war" is more or less completely gone. I really look forward to the hacking these coming days - hopefully implementing a few of the things that have been discussed this weekend myself. Also, worth mentioning is the amazing job that Nokia did with the sponsorship. The conference location is top notch - the events great - and the swag is all very useful. Good job!
And now, we have the obligatory photos...
Two incredibly handsome trolls (myself and Jens (jbache)) outside the entrance:
Ariya showing off some really slick graphics FX with Qt:
Knut, Olivier (gof), Andreas (bibr), Antti, Espen, and Alexis (darktears) enjoying the calm before the storm (Sunday evening event):
Till, Kevin, and Will efficiently showing us how to Get Things Done:
Spreading the word outside the conference together with Alexis (darktears):
(old bag, new towels)
