Yesterday I woke up, put some clothes in a bag and drove up to Hengelo to pickup Bertjan and go to the PIM-Meeting. The drive was fine. In some of the narrow streets of Osnabruck the roads were a bit slippery, so I could verify that my cars traction control was working just fine and it informs me that it is working due to flashy light on the dashboard. Good to know that….

At the meeting we started right away with addressing some of the pending issues. It is amazing how much faster you can get all to the same page when you are in a face-to-face meeting. Like evaluating the Akonadi migration. We all agree the beta period has been pretty good in that regard. A lot of distro’s made changes in the packaging and we got a good overview about which areas need a bit more work. And that’s exactly what the goals were.

We also talked about kdepim runtime split and the move of akonadi to freedesktop.org. Kevin already blogged about that earlier, so no point in repeating that. This morning we had a very nice presentations from the student project from Toulouse. They have created applications for addressbook and calendars which work based on Akonadi and the layout is adjusted for the Nokia N810. It was nice to see that. After that Bertjan presented a bit about what he was working on, which resulted in nice discussions about licensing within KDE. I hope we can lift the awereness of licensing and copyright a bit, so in 10 years we don’t end up with a mess.

Also we discussed a bit about Akonadi promotion, the websites, bug handling and kdepim on the mac and windows. There is so much to discuss. It is important to see that everyone is talking to everyone, everyone is eating with random sets of people. No fixed groups of people all hanging out with only the same poeple. The KDEPIM team seems to be bigger and more friendly than ever… to be continued…