On Saturday, we arrived at Mandriva a bit after the planned 9:00 am and Anne was waiting for us. We started the meeting by a welcome word from her and me. Mandriva had prepared 2 laptops for Carsten and Pete with a very much up-to-date KDE 4 installed along to KDE 3. Thanks to the technician who prepared them! Everybody presented himself and explained his/her goals for the week-end. We started to work and to have informal meetings. Johannes and Frederik met for Parley work, I helped Carsten and Peter to get kdeedu from svn trunk on their laptops, I ran a scheduler for the Icecream network. We got out to get lunch in 2 groups, then Patrick explained the work on the KDE on Windows team. It was very interesting. At 5:30 pm, Vladimir presented Step, a physics simulator he is working on with his wife Oliena who was also present (yeah, another girl!). Step will be included in KDE-Edu for KDE 4.1 and is already a stunning piece of software, very well featured and with an intuitive GUI. I told Vladimir to come to next Akademy and present it because it really deserves to be known.
Around 7:00 pm, after a very productive day, we went out to visit Paris, lead by Benoît and had a good time getting to know each other better.
Meetings like that are very important because instead of working alone we can better see why we do it. It also allows to make better choices in development: Step for example will use Eigen2, the math lib, instead of GMM that it is using right now. This is the result of real world discussion.
I am tweaking a Ruby script to easily extract Step from playground/edu so that you can all try it with the next rc2 release and after. A lot of bugs were fixed, tests were done, in English and also in Slovenian (JLP) and French, TODO were decided.
The atmosphere was very friendly and relaxed and you could feel that it was a real team spirit driving everyone.
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