aKademy: the last days…
No foreign cables on the switch so it’s time for do some blogging. 8-)
The last few days have been great. On wednesday we (Sven and me) had our tutorial on texttools. One whole day just covering Vim, screen and zsh 8-). But there was not really much time left for some other nice utilities like AK’s tpp, mutt, slrn and so on. I’ve put our slides on texttools (pdf) online.
On thursday I attented to the FAI-tutorial of Thomas Lange and Frank Ronneburg which was really interesting. I’ve never had the time to take a deeper look at it so it was really helpfull for me listening to the instructions and explanations of Thomas.
Thursday evening I listend to the discussion of Aaron Seigo and other people discussing the planned feature “Google-like Search Capabilities / Pervasive Search in KDE?“. Besides, reading the trolls at slashdot.org is really funny. I would call this feature Koogle btw. ;-)
Very interesting has been talking to Janina Sajka, a blind woman who uses here laptop with Fedora Linux. Janina uses mutt, vim and screen for here work and it’s really interesting the way she uses them. I tuned here zsh so speakup (doing special sound-output) gets a little bit improved for her. I’ll definitely try to add speakup and brailletty to my linux-distribution.
Today (friday) was the Live-Cracking-tutorial of Mark Semmler but it was not really interesting for me because I didn’t get any news. I think I should have attented to the Kiosk-tutorial but at least I could get the printed slides.
Now we have been at the cinema watching Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” and currently we are sitting in the gallery @ aKademy and show some people vim and “other texttools”. ;-)
Tomorrow (Saturday) we are going to fly to Klagenfurt in the afternoon.
As a conclusion: KDE Community World Summit 2004 “aKademy” was really great. I met many nice people from all over the world and could attend to interesting lectures and tutorials.
Some interesting aKademy-ressources:
- wiki
- my picture-gallery
- Sven’s pictures: 22th, 23th, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th of August
- pictures of other people
- dot.kde.org
- planetkde.org