Bag!
My bag is back! I've got my bag back! Not that I didn't look spruce and suave and everything I should have looked at the Lord Provost reception in the town hall tonight -- being clad from toe to crown, from outer crust to inner underwear in Burton's best -- but I'm glad to have my pocket knife, my good shoes and everything back.
Today was the e.V. meeting, an exercise in unavoidable tediousness. And when there's finally something rivetting happening, I can't blog about it, because it's e.V. stuff!
I had a very, very encouraging talk with Claire and Anne Oestergaard and some other people at the reception, though, about meshing research, funding and open source. It's a bit of a problem for institutions like the European Commission to fund research and innovation executed by loosely-knit organizations like the KDE project. They know that, we know that, and tonight we discovered that there's lots of knowledge within KDE and the wider free software world to at least start working on that. I'm so looking forward to Claire's bof tomorrow! (And also to the semantic desktop bof -- a prime example of really, really working cooperation between research, business and free software. And then Till is going to explicate Interview for us, and there are many more really interesting things to attend.
So it's a good thing we've finished our Krita design meeting tonight, in Waxy O'Connor's (again). We also lunched there... It's a grand place, because the food is good, the beer is decent (I haven't discovered a real ale pub in Glasgow, and I'm dying for a pint of bitter!), and the music is quiet enough that you can discuss the right location for pyramids in Krita's architecture without needing to shout. Bart is going to leave for Belgium really early tomorrow, and I'll be leaving on Wednesday.
With my luggage!
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