Geändert: 8. 3. 2009, 13:04
CeBIT, finally
Finally I managed it to write a post, Eckhart wanted me to do this for at least two days. And it's also the last day of the CeBIT. While the other halls are much less crowded as the last years the hall 6, where the Open Source booth's are, were crowded like ever. Today it's in fact rather empty, which gives me time to write that while Stefan and Eckhart left and right of me show KDE to visitors.
Like the years before we had different types of visitors. Long-year KDE users, some even running trunk, just wanted to say "hi" and also people that could not tell the difference between KDE and Linux. And of course everything in between. The KDE booth was probably the one best equipped with booth staff, and also with visitors. At the right you can see the bunch of people that was running the KDE and Amarok booths on Friday.
This big staff also allowed us to do some "real" work when we had a short break, like Bart was hacking on an Amarok model that allowed to present items that have a common column value to be shown as a group. I discussed with SaroEngels if I might be able to support him with his KDE on Windows stuff with an automated build machine. Stefan and Casper were hacking on Kolf and we also found some KGpg uglyness.
At the end we gave out 3 boxes of openSuSE 11.1 DVDs, one box of KUbuntu 8.10 CDs, and lot's of tips and advise. At all I would call it a very successful event for KDE and Open Source, while the fair in general had much visitors than in the previous years.