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My summer of geology begins! I'll be away from the internet in general for the next three weeks or so, although I hope to be able to check my email now and again. Happy hacking :) Oh, by the way, if anyone hasn't already read it: I recommend reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

/me waves at all the gearheads.

So life is settling down into a gentle lull; a calm between the storms that are school and summer work. This gives me a chance to finally blog about a few things that are going on, all interesting to me but only some interesting to you, my captive audience. :) As I began to write this article, I found that my life is filled with many, many acronyms. So I thought I'd share them with you :)

For quite a while now, KDE has gotten a reputation for being somewhat euro-centric. While we have contributing members everywhere, the project was borne in Europe. As KDE has grown and our contributors have become more distributed, it has been increasing difficult to shake this reputation, even within our own project.

So while we have a strong user community in certain South American countries (Brazil comes to mind), we have no sense of unity between these geographic regions since most KDE events have been held in distant Europe.

So folks, now that the polls are closed, I can finally lift the veil of secrecy that has been sitting over my life for the last three weeks. For the last few weeks I have been waging a somewhat major campaign for the Presidency of the U of Manitoba student union. Due to archaic election by-laws, the internet was off-limits for all purposes but email for the last little while. Yuck. Anyway, you can read some details (if interested) at the website of our campus rag at themanitoban.com

Well folks, it's "spring break" here for me, but that's a bit of a misnomer since it isn't even spring yet. The uni. officially calls this week "Reading Week", but really it ought to be called the "suicide prevention among students week" since that is truly the purpose of its existence up here. After all, it is -20C on a daily basis, with only 9 hours of sunlight at this time of year...

Disclaimer: this entry is personal, and does not reflect any official, issued opinion of the KDE project.

[insert tongue into cheek] At the recent KDE 4.0 Release Event in Mountain View, California, members of the open source community at large were invited to attend to partake in the celebrations surrounding KDE 4.0.0's release. There were many attendees from around the world, but the real surprise came when we counted those that were representing the distros.

I was thinking of turning this into a dot post for the frontpage, and I might just do that yet in some condensed form. Anyway, I figured I'd give a nice roundup of a number of KDE 4.0 related blurbs that have shown up around the internet.

Well folks, as you can see by the amount of traffic on the planet, the dot, and news from the event being plastered all over the internet, I would be happy to declare the KDE release event a success. However, being on the organizational team makes me biased, so whether or not it was an ultimate success will depend on what other people think, and not solely what I think.

Hey, Riddell started up a wiki for those attending the release party to enter their travel details (airport arrival/departure times for sharing cabs/transit/etc.) which also contains some details on some methods of getting from the airport to the event.

See the wiki page at http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Release+Event. Try to keep things arranged by time. Cheers.