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So I've been thinking recently about KDE's overall marketing strategy, and I think that I've got a handle on my own vision of KDE Marketing, which is malleable and adjustable to accommodate varying strategies. I won't spam the whole planet with the details, since it might be lengthy, and only a few people will care enough to read the whole thing.

This strategy is what I will be focusing on with my work within KDE over the next while, that is, if I don't get too distracted by the allure of coding :)

So I was in KDE 4 again today looking for little bugs that I could fix. Unfortunately most of the things I looked at were beyond my ability to fix, so instead I'll list them here for those intrepid C++ coders that are bored and looking for something to do...

This last Friday, I had the pleasure of attending a lecture put on by one of the professors at the NRI (Natural Resources Institute) at my university (U of Manitoba) as part of our homecoming lecture series. The talk was about environmental/resource conservation projects in so-called third world countries where they were trying to provide a way to define a successful project.

So yesterday night I attended group for the first time. You see, I have this affliction, that I don't mention to most people I meet, that keeps me somewhat on the outside of society. My ability to use command line utilities stems from years of dealing with this, but I think, thanks to group, that I've finally found some acceptance.

The Manitoba Unix User Group (MUUG), of course. :P

So I got quoted in some print media in Minneapolis/St. Paul about my trip to Glasgow and the various delays and 'inconveniences' I had in one single trip. I've never been referred to as "Unrau" in any context outside of hockey before, so it's weird to see myself referred to that way.

Just in case you guys don't actually get your KDE news by reading OSNews or the mailing lists, the KDE 4.0.0 tagging date has been pushed back somewhat. I'll quote Allen's email fully:

I know that it's always a busy time in the KDE world, and it's never a good time to go away for a period (as aaron could attest to), but I guess it's my turn. (In future years, we could do something bizarre and shut down the SVN repo for a week every year to force people to take a break.)

So, I know I'm not alone on this topic but I will represent these opinions as my own for the sake of taking the brunt of the fury upon myself alone. I recently wrote an article about the complex relationship that exists between various open source projects, especially when it comes to dealing with upstream projects.

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

Anyway I have two things for this entry:

So I was over at headrush.typepad.com as I randomly surfed the interweb, and found a funny image there, which I repost here. (Hopefully attribution is enough to satisfy the copyright types, and forgive me for my hotlinking...)