<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 29 Jan 2009, at 17:35, Mark Kretschmann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hey guys,<br><br>so Myriam and I just returned from the KDE 4.2 Release Party in<br>Zurich, and I would like to fill you in on the latest news from there.<br>Here goes:<br><br><br>*<br>Event started with Aaron giving a great talk about KDE 4.2 in the<br>Auditorium Maximum of the renowned ETH Zurich. The talk was very well<br>received and successful.<br><br>*<br>Afterward we had beers and conversations in the university hall. I did<br>meet several Amarok fans who congratulated us on our project. Some of<br>them were very enthusiastic. I think all of you can be proud of your<br>work; it is being appreciated by people all around the world!</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's always good to hear we have people who like our software :)</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>*<br>At this event I had the pleasure to meet Shane Coughlan from the FSFE<br>(official title "Freedom Task Force Coordinator" [1]). Shane is<br>involved in the Software Conservancy and expressed his great interest<br>in helping us with getting things done with the organization. Shane<br>was extremely friendly and appeared to really want to help us in any<br>possible ways to "get things going". In particular he explained that<br>there are ways to solve the issues with getting financial advances for<br>planned travels that had been a concern for us.<br><br>Shane offered solutions to get around this and other problems. He<br>explained that he is "very well connected" with lawyers around the<br>world, which could be an important asset to us. As I am not an expert<br>in financial and business matters, I did invite him to subscribe to<br>this mailing list and participate directly in the discussions around<br>the Conservancy. I hope this is in your interest too.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would ask that once the board is created, Shane get in touch directly with them. It would be great to get a dialogue going with Shane from the FSFE and the SFC lawyers as well. A pro-active approach i think will work quite well :)</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>* Further on we went to a dinner with Aaron Seigo, Alexandra Leisse<br>from Nokia, the president of the FSFE, and others. We did have food<br>and good conversations about social and technical issues surrounding<br>KDE, Amarok, and Free Software in general. I'm asking the treasurer of<br>Amarok for reimbursement of the costs of this dinner, as I consider it<br>a business dinner and important for the project (this cost is<br>moderate).</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Can i ask if you're asking for reimbursement for yourself or for the whole dinner? just curious.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>* Last not least we went clubbing with Aaron, Alexandra, and the gang.<br>Well I guess you can imagine that we had a lot of fun with dancing and<br>the usual amaRoking ;)<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>was their karaoke involved? i hope so, for aaron's sake :)<div><br></div><div>leo<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>---</div><div>Leo Franchi<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(650) 704 3680</div><div>Tufts University 2010 </div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:lfranchi@kde.org">lfranchi@kde.org</a></div><div><a href="mailto:leonardo.franchi@tufts.edu">leonardo.franchi@tufts.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>