Traditionally during akademy the Akademy Awards are awarded. The jury decided to award one to me this year. See the news article. I’m very, very, very happy with the award. I also find it awesome that fellow members of the sysadmin-team are mentioned. Although it is assigned to me, it is one for the team. [...]

Just imported all the old donations into the new donation database. Nice work to do, and satisfying to preserve the past! Have you ever donated? You might find your self in the list of donations.

Today at 6.46am Dirk Mueller switched the mail handling for KDE to a new server. This includes all the mail to @kde.org addresses, including the complete handling of all mailinglists. So far there has been zero complaints and zero downtime, so we can say the switch has went smooth and successful. There are some area’s [...]

Maybe it’s a good idea to summarize a bit about the activities the sysadmin has done the last few weeks. We have been working on KTown. This is one of the older machine’s we maintain and we need to shut it down. Due to it’s age we can’t depend on it anymore. KTown was a [...]

On the www.kde.org-site there is the possibility to make a donation to KDE eV. KDE uses that to finance the operations, like organising contributor sprints, paying for domains, travel costs, legal stuff, etc. In the past we had a nice page listing everyone who donated. But it was broken for a year now. The system [...]