While the planet is flooded with reports from the marketing, promo and www sprint, there is another sprint happening in a beautiful place called Essen in Germany.
I arrived there in the afternoon. It was nice to finally meet the people behind Digikam and the kipi-plugins. A few years ago I learned C++/Qt hacking while working [...]

Day 2 ended with some hacking and adapting stuff to the API changes we did. I worked on Mailody and implemented support for contact groups. That are groups of contacts, also called distribution lists. In the address book within the composer you can now see them and when you click on it, the individual members [...]

We decided that there is no real use case to keep the akonadi kcm within the systemsettings. The settings in there control which database server should be used. So it has the potential to break a lot of stuff. If you change databases, there is no migration tool, so you instantly loose all your settings, [...]

I was one of the last to arrive at the Akonadi Meeting. When we were all settled, we discussed the schedule for this weekend. I objected to the API review starting on Saturday 8am, but otherwise the schedule is packed and fun.
After that, we did an overview of the pim current situation:

KOrganizer: Porting is going [...]

For some parts of The Netherlands today is the start of a one week vacation. Unfortunately, that means that the train to Berlin is somewhat more crowded than usual, but I had a good seat reservation, so no complaining.
Hm, now the speaker is speaking about a deviation, who knows where I’ll end up now. Because [...]