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Hey, I built KDE 4 overnight on my new Mandriva system, and while most of the pain was just in getting all the various -devel packages installed that I required for building, it seems that once those dependencies have been taken care of, everything went swimmingly. The only two things worth mentioning is that Captury/Capseo stuff doesn't have packages on Mandriva, but they build from sources well enough. Additionally, I have had to built qt-copy and shared-mime-info as part of my KDE 4 build user's installation since it was having trouble picking up those two from the system packages.

So like Boud, I recently was forced to make an exodus from my long-time Kubuntu installation.

I moved to Kubuntu after I found out that my brand new chipset was too new to be supported by my favourite Unix(tm), FreeBSD, in either 32 or 64 bit mode simply due to lack of SATA drivers for the new mobo. Well! that is a bit of a predicament that I needed to promptly resolve.

This weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Canonical sponsored FOSSCamp event. This event was invented to foster communications between the canonical members (read: employees) and their upstream partners. While I was invited to this event at the request of Jonathan Riddell, the kubuntu lead and KDE packager extraordinaire, I went to this event with the hopes of helping to represent KDE's interests within the distribution.

Well, the main reason for this blog is to remind people about the FOSSCamp meeting today for the KDE attendees. #kde-fosscamp.

Okay, now that the important stuff is done, I get some personal news:

In case you've been living under a rock, Steven Colbert has announced that he's going to run for president of the US. The funny thing is, if I was an american, I would actually vote for him. He might actually do a good job once he drops the act.

You yankees are in for a much funnier presidential election now :)

Cheers

Hey folks. This is for everyone that is going to FOSSCamp to represent KDE in some fashion (directly, or as a user), we will be having a quick meeting this upcoming Sunday, at 21:00 GMT to discuss a few things. The irc channel will be #kde-fosscamp on irc.freenode.net.

Hey guys, just to keep everyone informed about the release event stuff. First wave of invites went out early last week: that wave was for KDE community members only. There are a lot of people that have not issued a reply to the invite (yes or no) yet. Just a reminder that those that have no reserved by October 21 may find themselves out of a hotel bed... I'm not saying that we'll have 100 people from the world at large sign up for the beds on October 21st and there will be no room, but we hope to fill things up fairly quickly.

Hey guys, we're starting to get a number of replies to the sent out email invitations within the KDE community (predominantly 'yes' replies, which is great!), but we're hoping that people do not forget about the invitation until the last minute. If you got an invite, please let us know your status. For those that didn't get an invite, we will be opening this event up to mass registration in a few weeks (this includes the remaining sponsored hotel rooms) on a first-come, first-served basis.

So, this time I get to make a post that has very little to do with KDE, because I want to :P

First, I'll note that the KDE ballcap that I picked up in Glasgow has been published in a photo on campus here. I was doing some outreach for the geological sciences department during our homecoming weekend where I got to chase down people and talk to them. The typical conversation went like this:

Hey guys, just a few breadcrumbs of information to pass along about the release event and our plan of action. First, the official announcement is scheduled for October 1st, which means that we would be past our so-called point-of-no-return. This is good, since it will force the organization team to do some of the actual work, like setting the talks schedule.