board meeting day 1

i arrived without event last night in darmstadt right in time to fall asleep at the hotel. after a very refreshing 7 hours of repose i met up with the other kde e.v. board members for breakfast before heading to the offices to get down to business.

we're taking an afternoon break at the moment, and so far it's been very productive. we've managed to actually get a bit ahead of schedule on the agenda and should be finished by a respectable hour (17:00 or so) for the day. then it'll be on to day 2.

the meeting minutes are being written using collaborative software so we can all edit it at the same time and we'll be sharing the results of the meeting with the community once the meeting concludes and we proof read the minutes. i expect to allow a week or so for that to be done given that we're all going to be traveling back home directly afterwards and then its the weekend.

the meeting has meant that i haven't had any hacking time (obviously =) though i have managed to review the patches that came in and respond to mails on panel-devel ...