Lecturing on Krita
Fabrice Mous had asked me to give a presentation on Krita and KOffice at today's NLLGG (the Dutch LUG) meeting. Which I did: you can download the Dutch presentation here. It went quite well, all in all, I think. My text and my slides diverged fairly soon, so it became more of a lecture than a presentation. Especially because there was a whiteboard, so I could sketch out concepts like brush simulation and so on.
I've touched on the history of Krita development, the way painting can be simulated, color management, krita-as-part-of-koffice and more. Usually I finish much too early, but this time I overran by about twenty minutes. Nobody seemed to mind, and near the end, when I talked about the user survey we did a while ago, a gentleman in the public told us about his use of KOffice in the school where he teaches and delivered a ringing encomium for KOffice!
Afterwards there were drinks in a restaurant close by. I went, had a nice chat with people who had only just discovered Krita (a surprising number, actually, had only heard of Krita in the past month), but left really soon. The room was very smoky and it turns out that my tolerance level for tobacco smoke has dropped more than I thought. After all, I used to smoke a pipe regularly (that is, about once a month) and I grew up in a house filled to the rafters with a permanent blue haze.
Another observation: SuSE is still really popular as is KDE. I had not realized how strong SuSE has been in the Netherlands, probably because at Tryllian there has always been a strong Debian culture with a Mandriva undercurrent.
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