Monday -- and e.V. meeting
Still no luggage -- I went out to Burton's yesterday and bought new shirts, trouser, jacket, underwear, socks and shoes. Also proper shampoo. So I'm once again the spruce and natty hacker that I always strive to be.
The conferences track is over. Several conferences were extremely striking: Zack Rusin has basically implemented something very like Gegl and demoed it. It already does all kinds of hardware optimizations. On the other hand, there are certainly bits that are quite alpha. And just like me, Zack hasn't got the tiled-convolution working correctly yet.
I really learned a lot during the specially added Sunday Morning nepomuk talk. This was a great thing: Tudor Groza from the Nepomuk project can to to speak at a free software conference. It's the kind of cross-pollination I love to see. Jos' Strigi talk was pretty interesting too, and I'm really looking forward to the semantic desktop bof next morning.
Emanuele Tamponi (Thrain) arrived at one o'clock in the night, by taxi from Edinburgh, and we met up yesterday. We skipped the afternoon talks -- sorry Sander! -- and did a preliminary Krita meeting. We improved the design for the painterly features -- I guess that Cyrille will be posting the meeting minutes soonish -- and today in between the two parts of the e.V. meetin we'll continue with the tile-backend, layer/node organization and action recording topics. High bandwidth, lots of decisions and fun hacking ahead!
Jim Zemlin from the Linux Foundation (who have sponsored this aKademy) did a keynote on "The Linux Desktop -- the Next Phase". I got the impression that Jim is maybe a little parochial in his outlook -- very USA-centric. He wanted Linux to appear on smartphones and other gadgets. I mean, the smartphone I won at last year's aKademy runs linux already!
That brings me to the last topic: I presented the aKademy awards last night. We, that's Laurent, Alexander and me, selected Sebastian Trueg for K3B (best application), Mathias Kretz for Phonon for best non-application and Danny Allen for his commit digest and all the other work he's doing. Danny was present, so he got away with the Kitware-sponsored swag :-).
Rounding off the evening in a nice imitation-Irish pub (Waxy O'Connor's) with good food, beer and whisky left me in fine fettle for this meeting!
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