Unterwegs

Wow! The last few days have been eventful. Only four Days after LinuxTag and the KDE Wiki Meeting I am sitting in the check-in area of the Berlin-Tegel Airport heading for Madrid. If everything works out as expected, I will then transfer to a flight to Las Palmas. I swore myself not to blog before I have checked in successfully, so the time for this entry is now, and to make it even more obvious:



The weather is awesome in Berlin already so I am looking forward how Gran Canaria will beat this (probably less thunderstorms in the evening, although they are really refreshing).

At GDCS, I will present Qt Creator, the scalable C++ IDE from Qt Software (I even brought the leaflets I printed LinuxTag, my bag I short of over baggage). I am looking forward to meet everyone again tonight at the welcome party!

Just in case the title strikes you as odd: It's finnish and it basically means "Goodbye! I had a great time!" (well, at leastt according to my dictionary). Right now we are sitting in the lobby of the StayAt Hotel in Leppävaara, Espoo waiting for the bus to the airport and fighting the hangover from yesterdays farewell party. The last two week definately were unforgettable and great fun. Tonight I am returning to Germany, hopefully getting some more KDE-related stuff done. Goodbye.

Greetings from Espoo, Finland, close to Helsinki (Hello Andreas!). We arrived yesterday evening and so far all things are nice. EVTEK welcomed us warmly, and we had a grat first day, including a sightseeing tour to downtown Helsinki. I also survived the lunch (thanks for the warning, #5 from my last entry).

The only situation that the wifi situation sucks pretty much. EVTEK only permits proxied HTTP and the hotel where we are located just switched off the router behind the wireless APs for some reason. Why is it that you always need to fix the network uplink to get proper internet?

PS: Yes I know it's possible to tunnel, but I want to use the VoIP functionality of my E51, for which only few tunneling mechanisms exist.

So my last rant basically made me the dot maintainer. Oh well. Now, as the first official act I added a description tag to the RSS feed of the dot. That means that everyone can now read stories with his RSS reader, and without being disturbed by the comments. It also means that the dot can now be aggregated on the planet (hello clee *hint,hint*!).

The second good news is that throughout this day, I finally got an understanding on how Squishdot stores its articles and it should be rather easy to import all stories and even all the comments into a new system, for which we currently prefer WordPress, although no final decision has been made.

From tomorrow on, I'll be in Espoo, Finland to attend a european exchange programme at EVTEK university for two weeks. In case of emergencies, please refer to dhaumann for any techbase issues, while sebas is your main for technical issues with the dot. I should however be well in touch with the world during the next two weeks, but who knows.

So I am finally back home. Time to summarize the last few days sebas style:

• Berlin is definately a nice place for LinuxTag, but we need sleeping opportunities that don't require us to travel through the entire city to get to the fairgrounds.


• Friedrichshain has really nice flat shares to stay.


• My future collegues from the TT Berlin Offices are really cool guys (ok, who would have expected anything else? )


• Sven from Amarok, Dimitri from Trolltech and Sebas gave nice interviews during a live show on Deutschlandfunk.


• Long train travels + Boredom + Power plug = Amazing productivity


• And finally: Adriaan, I still have your towell.