we've also been in the regional newspapers twice: once while we were still there and meeting and again just today. the writer, inge scheve, brought by two copies of the paper for us just before we left on saturday and also did a second interview with myself and the other kde devs who were still present. our first article appeared on page 19 with a teaser on the front page; both snippets included photos. inge covered the social aspects of free software and kde meetings. today's article also included photos and covered the technical goals of kde4 and what we accomplished while we were there. according to our native norwegian 'man on the ground' olav, she got the details right. given that inge is actually a sports writer that's pretty terrific. i think it speaks to both her abilities as a journalist as well as the increasing clarity of our communication.
inge's also been keeping me up to date with the ongoings in trysil, such as the recent take over of the public transit system by the resident rumanent union (ovis local 232). or something like that. here, look for yourself:
© 2006 Ingeborg Scheve
in any case, it's probably fair to say that people in the trysil area are now much more aware of kde and the whole free software desktop thing than they were a couple weeks ago. this obviously wasn't our intention when planning the meeting in trysil, but it is a good example of how one can hook up effectively with local media when there is something newsworthy to promote.
i'm in much better spirits today thanks to a good night's sleep. even though it's "teleconference tuesday" (in which my morning is monopolized by my least favourite household appliance: the telephone) i'm having a good time of it.
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Aaron, i am just wondering what happened to the podcast with the Anorak people
Did you ever consider switching to wordpress.com which is opensource? I've been using it for a while and I love it. (It's opensource if that makes a difference ;-))
@sara: "i am just wondering what happened to the podcast with the Anorak people"
anorak? *scratches head* if you mean "amarok" that's someone else and it's coming. if you mean trysil, they'll be up by tomorrow. maybe even sooner. huzzah.
@linuxgoober: the day i have a personal slave to do things like "set up wordpress", "make my website look like someone other than a c++ geek made it" and "rub my back after you've fetched me coffee" i'll certainly switch. as it is, i don't have time to sink into setting wordpress up (including pulling all my old content over, making a nice skin, blah blah blah).
i'll be the first to admit that it's really odd, and often even uncomfortable, to be engaged in building a desktop empire (aka "KDE") without the legions of whipping boy minions that would accompany such an effort in the trad corporate world. but then i don't have to deal with the office politics either. so i'm not complaining too much. =)
Did you ever consider switching to wordpress.com which is opensource?
Wordpress. Ooohh, errr. I'm glad you have that kind of time. I set up Roller once for something and it wouldn't be something I'd be keen to do again - especially not in my spare time.
Then you've got the issue of if you host it yourself, where to host it, get someone else to host it and maybe pay for it, migrate your data through the XML-RPC interface........
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