ervin’s piece of web

In case you forgot, the deadline for Akademy 2008 CfP is in two days… yes, May 1st is coming quickly now! If you haven’t submitted your abstract yet please don’t wait for the last minute. Moreover, every year, after the CfP is over, I find people who should have submitted but didn’t because they think what they do is boring. It’s just plain wrong.

That’s why, I’d like to remind everyone: Yes, what you’re doing is interesting. No kidding.

Since people need incentives to submit their interesting abstracts, here is the deal: The first two talks to be accepted this year will get a drink from me. After that, each of the 2^n-th talks which get accepted (so no need to rush crappy proposals) will also get a drink from me (that is the 4th, 8th, 16th and 32th since we generally accept no more than 50 talks).

Submit now, you might get a free drink.

This week I’ve been participating to the FISL conference in Porto Alegre. I held a 3 hours long tutorial here to introduce students to Qt and KDE development frameworks. The feedbak I got was pretty good, the questions were interesting and I even managed to cover what I was planning during this session. It’s been really enjoyable.

Apart from that, I’ve been mostly hanging at the Trolltech/KDE booth, or the speaker’s room. Lot of interesting people here. I’ve been very impressed by the INDT people, they’re a very nice and smart bunch of people.

Today is my last day in Brazil, since it’s sunday I’m going to relax a bit with Andreas and Thiago. It’s been great being here. I’m really looking forward to being back home, that said spending 14 hours in plain will probably be a pain. That’s all for now, I’ll probably blog again about Akademy 2008 CFP when I get back home.

I’m back from Milano. The first Plasma sprint has been a pretty good event. My only regret is the low productivity on the first day since we spent quite some time hunting for food. But once we found the right balance, the productivity just got through the roof and we got an humongous amount of things done (as the current activity in the repository proves).

I’d like to thank everyone involved in this sprint, we really formed a great bunch, that’s nice to be able to get things done and make new friends at the same time. A special thanks for Richard Moore, without him I’m not sure we would have seen the end of the API review. Also I’m really looking forward to collaborating with the JOLIE developers, it’ll probably cover all our current Web Services needs.

Also congratulations to Alexis who led the effort to make WoC finally happen in Plasma, and to Sebas who did a humongous job in this area too. Yet another important piece of the Plasma project finally done.

And now preparing for departure again, I’m going to FISL 9.0 where I’ll give a tutorial about developing applications with Qt and KDE. I probably still have to rework a bit my slides to fit the target audience and the time slot. I still have to pack too…