Archive for October 13th, 2006

Posted on October 13, 2006 - by jono

Holy cow, it’s the great Qt 4 book competition!

Well, thats it, its been an exausting day here in Stuttgart, and I have been trucking for around 18 hours today, but its been a really productive day. I had a really interesting discussion with some KDE people about the relationship between Canonical, Kubuntu, KDE and other free software projects, and I have a bunch of action points to look into on Monday. So, congratulations to the organisers for a well run and enthusiastically attended event.

Oh, and lady luck being on my side, I rather ironically won the rather snappily titled Qt 4: Einführung in die Applikationsentwicklung written by the legendary Daniel Molkentin. The audience found this most amusing, and so did I. Thanks very much folks.

Now, being that (a) I don’t code in Qt any more and (b) I don’t speak German, I have decided to do the right thing and offer this book up as a prize. So, friends, please respond to this blog entry with an answer to the following question:

When you win this book and hack on a program in Qt 4, what will it be?

Include your name and email address. As usual, comedic or inspiring answers will be of notable value. Get your answers in.

Posted on October 13, 2006 - by jono

KDE 10th Anniversary Event

Here I am at the 10th anniversary event for KDE and its really cool. Last night I had two, count them, two hours of sleep before my alarm went off at 3am. I get back into England at around 11pm. Its a long day, but its worth it. The energy here behind the KDE team is great, and its been fantastic to meet many old and new friends alike.

My talk seemed to go pretty well, and caused some interesting questions and discussion afterwards. Shortly after the talk I did an interview for a podcast which was fun, and then there was an interesting talk by danimo about KDE 4. Danimo’s talk was informative, but the post talk Q+A was even more interesting, and there was some really good discussion.

Its nice to feel the sense of community here, and I have had some great feedback about Canonical, Kubuntu, community management, concerns, expectations and other issues. It has also been nice to hook up with Matthias Ettrich again and also to meet Knut, Torsten Rahn (coolest name evaaar), Klaus Knopper and Martin Konold.

So all in all, a pretty good event so far, and it has filled my already full head with yet more ideas and thoughts.

Oh, and I entered a raffle for a Trolltech Qtopia Greenphone – I really hope I win. I would love one of those beauties.