As always, I took some pictures at FOSDEM 2010. Disappointingly I took less than last year: only 55 instead of 132 (and even that is cheating, because that includes a picture *of* me taken by xvello). Still, better than nothing, I guess... In any case, as always at FOSDEM, I had lots of fun, and that's what counts!

As always, we had the KDE Group Picture taken at FOSDEM. It went pretty smooth this year, apart from not immediately hearing when the autotimer of the camera clicked

[Edit: Hmmm why does this not show up in the feeds?]

It's been a while, but I'd just like to bring the following 2 upcoming events in to your attention:

• FOSDEM. As always, the yearly free/open source software is being organized in Brussels again. I think there's something interesting for most of you, so be sure to have a look at the schedule (even though it is not finalized yet) Of course, for all the KDE people among us: don't forget the KDE Group Picture! As for people wanting to know which talks I'll probably attend, I put a tentative list on my website.
• Vlaamse Programmeerwedstrijd (Flemish Programming Contest). This is a programming contest, open to almost everybody: senior high school students, 'hogeschool'/university students (bachelor, master and PhD), and other people that have graduated from one of those options. This year, it's being organized at Ghent University, which happens to be where I'm working. That means I'm obviously attending it (using Haskell and/or C++). So if you ever wanted to make fun of me or humiliate me (and my teammate, of course) in a kinda-official setting: this is your chance

I took a few pictures of KDE people and the area around the hotel most were staying in. Click for the rest:

So, of course there's a lot of interesting things going on at FOSDEM here. Just like last year, we had a nice group picture on the grass field next to the KDE devroom. Thanks to all people who could make it. If you look verrry closely, you can even spot the GNOME person in it

I'm doing my last preparations for FOSDEM right now. Together with the other SUSE guys I will go to Brussels later today.

On Saturday at 17:00 there will be a presentation about SUSE Studio in the openSUSE Track. Daniel Bornkessel and me will show you how to create openSUSE based software appliances with just a few clicks. As special guests we will have Andrew Wafaa and Jordi Massaguer Pla at the talk. They will tell a bit about what they have done with Studio so far.

We also will show Studio at the openSUSE booth and have some DVDs and USB sticks with us, so you can get your own customized openSUSE live media created there.

I'm looking forward to the event. See you in Brussels.

Björn and I sat down (or rather mailed around) to get the FSFE Fellowship Meeting and KDE 4.2 Stuttgart Release Party going.
Of course that involved talking to people around here.
Ingo of RadioTux was on my list of locals, so I contacted him.
What I didn't expect was to be interviewed on RadioTux just a few days later.
I had a short interview on RadioTux.
So if you are really brave, you can listen to me (in German), stuttering here.
After some technical problems they got me on the phone at around 65 minutes.
And d'oh, could I think of many things to say when skipping through it afterwards... I guess I still need to work on my promo skills.
But it turned out much less embarassing than I had originally feared

Regarding the release party, I'm quite happy that we'll be a strong team to represent FSFE and KDE.
Now I'd be happy to know who else is comming... (yes, please drop me a mail at my lastname@kde.org if you plan to come).
I'm looking forward to meeting Björn and the FSFE Fellows, Ingo (RadioTux), Daniel, Frank, Vallerie, Jörg and Lydia (KDE all)

In totally unrelated other news...

As usual, KDE will have a presence at this year's FOSDEM. If you're coming, be sure to check out our KDE devroom schedule for Saturday, and the CrossDesktop devroom schedule for Sunday. I expect that within a few days the whole schedule will be available, instead of only a few devrooms (importantly, there will be a KDE-related talk in the Debian room). If you're around on Saturday, don't forget to come to the group picture!

I'm pretty sure there will be something of interest for everyone, if not in the KDE room, then perhaps in another room. And let's hope that for your range of interests, the scheduling overlaps arent't as painful as for me (the 3-way split between Ext4, Paul Adams, and Gallium is particularly sad to me )