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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)
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This post will serve two purposes.
- To let me try posting with Bilbo Blogger
- Point out some observations/thoughts since I moved to Helsinki
If you can read this post, it means that 1 actually worked. Bravo - this is one sweet app. Automagically configured everything for me given the address to my Drupal site and user+pass. Try Bilbo Blogger today.
2...
- Weather is identical to Oslo, maybe a degree or two colder
- People are actually more timid/quiet in Finland than Norway/Sweden. That says allot.
- Food in the company cafeteria is awesome (wide selection, high quality)...but not free: 5.50€
- Work is quite a bit more intense than in the Oslo office. You can definitely feel the stress/tempo of the "We need to get to market ASAP" mentality. I guess this is what working at a game company is like.
- I have a sweet steam-punk elevator.
- I need to make a "fast-forward" video of me going to work, featuring said elevator.
I look forward to learning more about Helsinki. A big bummer that I've been slightly sick basically the whole time since I arrived. I'm almost well now though, so that's good I guess.
Finally, It really sucks that some folks at Nokia got laid off. Despite it only being something like 1% of the workforce, it still stings to know some of the people leaving. You guys will be missed, and I hope we can all still keep in touch wherever you end up :)
Finally, to continue with point #1, I'm going to try to attach an image to this post, let's see if it works...
if it *did* work, then what you're seeing is the feature I added to Quassel (an AMAZING IRC client) last weekend - spell checking :)
That's all for now. Totally time for some sleepy action.
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Having just moved to a new place (Helsinki) I don't really have that much to do yet. So what do I do on a Sunday afternoon? Lazy programming - that's what!
The goal: To have facebook on my screen saver.
The result: Any iPhone page on your screensaver.
Why? Because it's so much easier/faster to write than an actual facebook applet.
What is it? It's a QWebView that identifies itself as an iPhone, placed on Plasma. Configurable with different "phone themes", and select any page you want.
Where to get it? It's in SVN, under the plasma applets in Playground as kPhone
Have fun, and let me know what you think! :)
