I'm going to Akademy! Akademy 2016, as part of QtCon, that is. I missed last year in A Coruña because it conflicted with my family summer vacation, but this year is just fine (although if I was a university student I'd be annoyed that Akademy was smack-dab in the middle of the first week of classes -- you can't please everyone).

Two purely social things I will be doing are baking cookies and telling stories about dinosaurs. I have a nice long train ride to Berlin to think of those stories. But, as those of you who have been following my BSD posts know, the dinosaurs are not so backwards anymore. Qt 5.6 is doing an exp-run on FreeBSD, so it will be in the tree Real Soon Now (tm), and the Frameworks are lined up, etc. etc. For folks following the plasma5 branch in area51 this is all old hat; that tends to follow the release of new KDE software -- be it Frameworks, or Plasma, or Applications, or KDevelop -- by a few days. The exciting thing is having this all in the official ports tree, which means that it becomes more accessible to downstreams as well.

Er .. yeah, dinosaurs. Technically, I'm looking forward to talking about Qt on BSD and KDE Plasma desktop and other technologies on BSD, and about the long-term effects of this year's Randa meeting. I have it on good authority that KDE Emerge^WRunda^W KDE Cauldron is being investigated for the BSDs as well.