Wednesday, January 30, 2008

l.c.a. and fluffy bunnies

the "developing with libplasma" presentation went swimmingly today. the room was packed and there were lots of really good questions. the best part was that there were answers for all the questions that made sense. all the people who have been banging on the plasma api for the last year or so have really helped us to cover the common needs very well.

at the end of it, Karol Szwed came up and introduced Ross Cunningham from Sun and David Purdue from Frontline (an Australian consultancy) who proceeded to donate a Sun server to the KDE project. nice!

then it was off to lunch with a bunch of the kde people that are in attendance here, including a few i hadn't met before such as Ian Wadham of kgoldrunner fame. now we're sitting in Andrew Tridgell's presentation on clustered samba. it's pretty cool; the entire presentation is essentially a live demo. sophisticated stuff.

but the real highlight of the day? the fluffy bunny plasma widget background. i'm using it now, in fact, as you can see here: