December was quite an eventful month for me, with over 4,000 km travelled by train. This was in part caused by the holidays and visiting family, but also by the KDE PIM sprint in Paris and the 39th Chaos Communication Congress.
KDE PIM sprint in Paris
From the 12th to the 14th of December, I was in Paris. It was actually my first time there for more than a day trip, so I arrived a day earlier to explore the city a bit. I went on a walk across the city with Tobias and Nicolas, and I took some photos.
The weekend was also very productive. We advanced our goal of making KMime a proper KDE Framework; made Message-IDs in emails more privacy-conscious; and discussed various important topics such as the retirement of the Kolab resource and the switch to SQLite as the default backend for Akonadi.
Huge thanks to enioka Haute Couture for having us in their office in Paris.
The sprint being in Paris also allowed me to afterward go visit my grandma, 350 km further south of Paris, so this was particularly convenient.
39th Chaos Communication Congress (39c3)
Another event I went to was 39c3, which is the third year in a row that I attended, and this year again we had an assembly as part of the Bits und Bäume umbrella, thanks to Joseph.
I love the vibe of this event. It’s not very dry or only tech-focused, but also has a big artistic and political aspect to it. And while the number of attendees is very large, at the same time it’s very chill and I don’t feel overwhelmed, unlike at FOSDEM.
At the KDE assembly, we met a lot of interested users, some GNOME friends, and since a bunch of KDE devs were there, we managed to work on a few productive things, like switching the map backend from Itinerary to MapLibre.
And this year, I even managed to go on national TV for a few seconds to speak about Nextcloud. My German grandma called me the day afterward, very happy to have seen me.
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