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So, in my previous post, I listed some of my motivations for writing the story about Webkit and KHTML. It seems it has not gone fully unnoticed.

You see, when I wrote my article, motivation number one was to have KDE mentioned every time Webkit is mentioned: I know that this is 'in-house', but it's still nice to see the Apple writers over at Ars Technica talking about KDE in their Webkit articles now.

So it seems that OpenID is finally gaining that critical momentum it needs to become truly a popular choice for web authentication. I am very pleased by this development, but interested to note that people are mostly unaware of OpenID's origins: did you know that it was invented as part of another open source software project? That project is LiveJournal. And the only reason it got as popular as it did was due to the massive popularity of LiveJournal and it's software.

So folks, it has come to my attention through various conversations with people involved with open source, but not KDE, that we have an image problem. The problem is that KDE has outgrown its name. It used to be Kool, but now it's just K. It used to be Desktop, but it's outgrowing that metaphor. So all we have left is the Environment.

So rather than calling ourselves the KD Environment, we need to sit and think about this for a while.

You see, when I started to write for the dot, I wrote very liesurely about all of my topics, and it was well received by many. No pressure at all. Now, however, I have become aware of the sheer number of people that read my work (whereas before I was somewhat ignorant of the whole thing) and the whole task now seems rather daunting.

As a followup to my previous entry, "The Airport Experiences", I guess you folks should be wondering if my trip home was any better... Well, this being my first trip to Europe, they figured they'd better make it as strange as possible for me :)

I never did get my luggage in Glasgow, although KLM claims that your computer tagged it as heading from Amsterdam to Glasgow... only it was never tagged in Glasgow upon arrival. So I was wearing the same pair of pants for 9 days... did anyone notice that I smelled?

So KDE has received a large number of mentions in the press recently, including reprinting much of the dot.kde.org storm that is our Akademy coverage. Here's a few that I'd like to point out for those that are not showing up on the dot or the planet, or are republishing something that we already know about (so we can be aware of the exposure). So, after some judicial application of google news searching, here we go:

I was going to call this one "Security Inaction" as a homage to Jon Stewart, but I didn't want to cause an international incident :)

I was in a plane as the jeep exploded in the terminal. Waited in the plane for 7 hours before they finally let us go. What a crappy way to start Akademy for me. Also, my luggage is in Amsterdam. And I never found out in time where I was staying, so I bought a bed in a hostel on berkley street. Tomorrow I hope to get this all partly straightened out. Cheers.

First, before I saw anything else, I would like to say a big thank you to the KDE e.V. for sponsoring my trip to Akademy on such short notices, and more specifically to Sebas for getting it down. I think you guys just made my summer.