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It's about time to pencil my two cents about the gran canaria desktop summit into the great notebook called world wide web.

I'm contributing to kde since January 2008. This years akademy was my first ever conference of any kind. I knew noone and my hotel was flooded with gnomies. Nice guys really. And they didn't even bite. Who would have thought of that :).

Had two nice weeks. But i suspect beeing part of some of the greater kde communities like plasma, kate, marble, koffice ... makes it even more interesting. I even had to explain why i chose to mostly work on kdelibs stuff :). Interesting question but i'm not quite sure my answer helps in attracting more people to work there.

I met my favorite kate developer ... anyone working on a vi mode HAS TO BE a great person. I even tried to motivate him by offering a crate of beer for a working vi command line mode. Erlend ... don't forget about that. Beer has a drink-by date here in germany and in eager anticipation i already bought the crates. Yes i make it two crates :-) . I'm waiting!

Met some nice local guys and prompty forget their name. Guys if you are out there reading this please contact me. I'm the tall one with curls. And i want to have that picture you guys made.

We made a nice picture showcasing that in kde we grow with our projects. Blauzahl has the better version were you have a standard of comparison (chani iirc) but since she failed to post it yet i will have to do it. Update: Daniel posted a link to the image in the comments. Thanks.

Andre Wöbeking, myself, Volker Krause, Lubos Lunak and David Faure with Chani in front.

And i have never seen any of the pictures showcasing that kde people know how to party. I mean those drinking two beers simultanuously. The dancing adventures of mr. knut. claudia, erlend, andreas, casper, me and ... dancing.

Have a look at my galleries at smugmug. Thanks to ervin for pointing out the site. But he could have posted about the referal program. So if someone out there wants to have it's own smugmug gallery please contact ervin or me.

• Gran Canaria - Las Palmas. Not desktop summit related pictures of the city.
• Gran Cararia - Desktop Summit

See you all next year.