Over the weekend, while some KDE people were in Toulouse improving Akonadi, and other KDE people were in Berlin improving Plasma, I was in Goteborg at FOSS-North showing off some KDE things.

Anyone who saw our FOSDEM booth knows the setup. We still had the same blue table (thanks, Sune) and selection of low-power ARM blinkenlights, the Pine64 and a Pinebook. I still think that "hey, Plasma runs fine on an overpowered x86 laptop" is not particularly interesting, but that "the past six months have seen serious work on reducing Plasma's resource usage aimed specifically at this kind of device" is. Different from FOSDEM is that I could now run one of the just-released Netrunner images for the Pinebook.

There are pictures circulating of a staged fist-fight between me and Bastian, who ran the GNOME booth. Except for those 30 seconds, we were good neighbours and I'd like to thank Bastian for keeping an eye on things when the KDE booth wasn't otherwise occupied.

Bigger thanks to Helio, who came from not-Bavaria to help at the stand as well and give a software archaeology talk. And biggest thanks to Johan, for setting up and running the whole conference.

I gave a talk on governance -- call it "Open Source Project Governance 101, with a brief mention of how KDE does it specifically". A half hour is long enough for an overview, not long enough to really go over all the considerations you might have along each of the different axes of decision. I'm more than happy to be talking with people about specific issues in governance. I didn't see many talks themselves: just one on deep-dive C++ and OpenGL stuff (I didn't understand all of what Patricia does) and reproducible-builds tools like diffoscope (Chris's talk gave a nice overview).