Today I'm heading out to Deventer to say "hi" to Valorie and Boud, whom I'm be seeing again next week in Vienna, at Akademy.

Akademy is, for me, first and foremost a way to see everyone again and re-calibrate my social settings for everyone. After all, I communicate with most KDE people only electronically, though text, and it's sometimes really important to see the faces behind the IRC nicknames. So I'm particularly excited that Michael Pyne will be there, who has been a voice in KDE for as long as I care to remember, but whom I've never actually met. And there will be lots of GSoC students there, new people who deserve all the support they can get -- and commendations for the work they have done in KDE this year.

Personally I'm not planning anything specific at Akademy. I may chair a panel during the conference parts, and the Distro BoF is something I'll definitely attend with my FreeBSD hat on. Other than that, it'll mostly be spur-of-the-moment what I'm doing. Tug on my sleeve if you want coffee and a chat, about portability, installers, OEM stuff, codes of conduct, or Rick Astley.