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From: Jos Poortvliet and Danny Allen <>
Dept: first-impressions-are-important
Date: Sunday 01/Jul/2007, @09:09

aKademy 2007: The First Impression
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   aKademy 2007 [http://akademy2007.kde.org/] has started! Saturday, the
first day of the conference, brought us many talks about various topics,
ranging from very technical to more practically oriented. These talks
are so content-rich that our coverage of the user conference will
require several consecutive articles. Read on for the first aKademy 2007
Report, the First Impression.


  I. KICKOFF

     The conference was kicked off by Adriaan de Groot, who introduced
Lars Knoll of Trolltech [http://www.trolltech.com/] and our shiny new
KDE-branded coffee mugs, which we received in our 'aKademy bag'. The bag
was filled with other goodies as well, like a 2 GB bootable USB stick
courtesy of Mandriva, and some live CD's.

 Click to join names to faces (more names added regularly)

 II. ORGANISATION

     During the talks, it was discovered that there was no internet.
Indeed, 200+ geeks at a university, without network access. The
organisation has quite some trouble getting us online. So this report is
fairly late, and you probably noticed the almost-full radio silence. But
the network is already up in one of the buildings, and we're expecting
connection any time now. Besides, the lack of network has some upsides.
It ensures most hackers spend their time actually listening to the
talks. Aside from this one glitch, the organisation has been excellent
so far. They even arranged food and beer last night, organising a social
event which we enjoyed greatly. Most hackers spend their evening time in
pubs and clubs, but some were already up-and-running before 8 in the
morning on Sunday. On Monday, the group will attend another social
event, where we will meet the Lord Provost of Glasgow in the rather
fancy setting of the public chambers.


III. ARRANGEMENTS

     The t-shirts this year - which are fair trade produced! - are just
amazing, and have been selling like crazy. Now more and more people are
wearing these new t-shirts, decorated with Konqi taking the form of the
infamous Loch Ness Monster. All in all, the arrangements are very nice
here. Glasgow is a great city, and our hosts make sure things run
smoothly.



     Sunday will bring some more talks, which we will report to you
soon. Then the hackers will start doing what they do best: code, from
dawn to dusk. We will bug them about the things they are working on, and
conduct some interviews, so expect more news from aKademy 2007!