This month my company is moving offices. With 5 people the current office is just getting on our nerves. We need more space. So last December we decided to hunt for new office space. And we ended up in finding it on our local industrial area. We will miss the city center where we have an office right now, fresh bread across the streat, appie around the corner but that also has its downsides, like elderly ladies chatting for an hour just in front of our office, just within hearing reach.

The moving is quite complex because we have our own data centre. So the first task a couple months back was to get Fiber into the new office. That requires getting permissions to dig holes in public roads, and that means people need to have time to object to it. We briefly considered doing it ourselves in the middle of the night, but figured that would probably lead to muscle ache, so we left it to the experts.

In the meanwhile we tore down all the inner walls and build new walls at the places that we prefer. The new data centre has been filled with a new floor, climate control and now the Fiber is there too. We need to finish the rest of the office, fill some containers with all the rubble we have and don’t need. Then the new office floor can go in and we can start moving. The actual moving is planned for 22nd and then the data centre will move on the 28th, which starts to get scheduled with military precision, some smaller KDE sites will have some downtime due to this, digikam.org, kipi-plugins.org, kde.nl.

All this basically means that I don’t have much time for KDE this month, and I’m pretty sure that it will return to normal in June, just so you know. I just need time to do this move correctly, keep the customers happy in the meanwhile and start packing the office. The office is already filled right now, with the arrival of the empty moving boxes. I just don’t know where to put them all once they are folded and filled.

The good news is that this can be used for developer meetings in the future if they are not too big. But you have to be prepared to travel to Culemborg ;-)