JLP’s Blog

I just came back from aKademy 2007 early registration at Livingston Tower, University of Strathclyde, which is about 20 minutes of walking away from Euro Hostel. It was a bit hard to find the registration place at first. I was looking for a big KDE banner, but it turned out that there was only an A4-size piece of paper with handwriting attached to the front door, so I completely missed it. Luckily my sister has a keen eye and she noticed it and we found the room just fine.

At the registration I got a name tag and a bag of cool stuff. Mandriva, which is one of the sponsors, provided most of it. They put together 5 items: a Mandriva Linux One 2007 CD, a 2 GiB USB memory stick with bootable Mandriva Linux on it, a Mandriva branded pen, a sheet with Mandriva stickers, and a Mandriva branded plastic bag. From other sponsors there were: July 2007 edition of Linux Magazine, Google Code branded notebook, and a Kubuntu 7.04 CD. Organizers also provided a Glasgow Tourist Map and a Greater Glasgow & Clyde Walley Essential Guide, which will both come in handy. From AMD we got a promotion leaflet for their developer tools. Oh, I almost forgot, there was also the KDE branded mug among the cool stuff.

So, aKademy 2007 hasn’t really started yet and it is already great.

Tags: kde, akademy, akademy 2007, community, conference, meeting, desktop, free software, open source, glasgow, scotland