Media contacts; the little konqueror

Hey folks - didn't mean to spark a minor flamefest with the last journal entry...

Anyway I have two things for this entry:

First: I'm looking for everyone to comment on what their favourite media outlet is that covers open source news, computer news, or even free culture in general. I'm building up a list of press contacts to invite to the KDE 4 release party event (more details forthcoming shortly). Press that is local to the Bay area of California is a bonus, since their travel costs will be lower, but hopefully I can get a huge list of interested parties. This can include magazines that publish in other languages, Technology TV shows, famous bloggers, and more. By adding a comment, you are helping to spread the word to the world about KDE 4 :)

Beat.

Secondly: when I was at Akademy, I talked to a few people that were doing personal research projects into making a lightweight webbrowser for KDE around WebKit codenamed "Napolean" (aka, the "little Konqueror", a clever enough play-on-words). At the time some people raised objections to the naming thinking it was akin to calling a project "Hitler", so if anyone is working on it, it'll likely have a new name by now.

Anyway, the reason I bring this up is that I forgot who I was talking to in reference to this project, so I can't follow it up to see if any work is being done, or if it's an idea that sitting dead. I recall being in a discussion in the hacking room -- dfaure was there, but I cannot remember who else was in that discussion... Maybe I'll have to poke david to see if he remembers. The real reason is that I'm hoping that someone is already working on this project, but would like to do it in collaboration with a few others. There are a number of people in the Webkit camp that are rumbling about making a new, fully open source browser on top of webkit and they'd rather not see a duplication of efforts from the beginning. So they asked me if I can find out who it was that was talking about this project back at Akademy. Can anyone help here?

Cheers folks.