[dot] aKademy 2007: Tuesday Hack-a-thon

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From: Jos Poortvliet <>
Dept: hacking-is-cool
Date: Friday 06/Jul/2007, @10:02

aKademy 2007: Tuesday Hack-a-thon
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   aKademy 2007 [http://akademy2007.kde.org/] is continuing. Tuesday
featured the Education Day and many smaller BoF
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoF] sessions. In the meantime, hackers
worked around-the-clock on various projects, both in the 'quiet' area
and in the discussion area. Read on for the aKademy 2007 Tuesday
Hack-a-thon report.


  I. BOF SESSIONS

     Several BoF sessions were run on Tuesday, for example about Nepomuk
[http://akademy2007.kde.org/codingmarathon/talks/semantic_desktop.php],
and the Google Summer of Code.
  [http://static.kdenews.org/dannya/akademy_bof.jpg]

A. AMAROK

     The Amarok hackers held more meetings, and this time they went into
hacking mode as well. A lot of code has been written, and those who are
fortunate enough to have a KDE 4 checkout can see for themselves, as
this work has been committed to the repositories. I asked the developers
to provide me with some information and a screenshot, and they did:
according to Wendy, they spend a lot of time on the new interface. For
example, they want to improve the playlist
[http://www.monroe.nu/archives/99-Solution-for-organizing-the-new-playlist.html],
where songs expand when you click on them, so you see more information.
Nikolaj wrote a very interesting blog
[http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/440-The-Grand-Plan.html] about
their work, which is well worth reading.
  [http://static.kdenews.org/dannya/akademy_amarok.jpg]  
[http://static.kdenews.org/dannya/akademy_amarok-playlist.png]

B. HACKING AROUND, TALKING TO EACH OTHER...

     Finally, various work was done all over the KDE 4 codebase. The
collective commit rate went up to 420 commits during the day.

     Krita had their first meeting on Sunday, discussing architecture
and tackling some serious issues. They postphoned several points to
tuesday, and they got together to sketch out the details. I had a short
talk with Boudewijn, who told me they have been mostly working on
various structural issues. He pointed out that they were very happy with
these face-to-face meetings, as several of the topics discussed had
already been fruitlessly been talked through on email and IRC, without
any result - yet face to face, they were able to come to solutions
quickly.