Brain Salad

When the craze with the quadcopter drones started, of course I wanted one, so I bought a few (cheap) parts to learn how they work and played aroud with building one. I’ve never finished the project, because…. I don’t know… I „postponed it”.

Now, in the middle of the craze with 3D printers, naturally, I wanted one as well. I can’t afford one, mostly because I’m not willing to spend that much on something that I’ll not use so often.

As you’ve seen in my previous post, I went to CERN for a KDE / WikiToLearn sprint. I’ve talked about what WTL is, so I won’t repeat myself. But it’s still awesome. Many have tried to digitalise the college curriculum, but only in their own University. WTL bridges that gap and makes that knowledge available to the world. And because of its openness is why CERN is interested in collaborating with WTL.

Time has been crazy lately for me. So crazy that, I haven’t even managed to blog about many things that I wish I’ve had. And because time is till crazy (haven’t finished packing and taking off in a few hours), I’m blogging about this trip in the last 100 meters.

The story goes like this:

Last Akademy, I found out about the WikiToLearn project and that they have joined the KDE community. I could write a whole series about what WikiToLearn is, so I won’t go into all it’s details. In short it’s a encyclopedia for students to organize their curriculum and share the knowledge.

This bug has been around for a while, and as far as I can see it keeps coming back.

I’ve found a workaround that fixes the cause that makes Akonadi (and in turn Kmail) throw this error and stop syncing the emails.

I use Gmail and that’s the only thing I’ve tested it with, I have no idea if it works with other providers, actually I don’t know if you (still) have this problem with other providers.

So here it goes: the error is usually thrown when you move messages around folders, what I’ve seen is after I move my sent messages from the Sent folder to the folder with the discussion.

This post came in a bit late, because I was unsure of what to write. I’ve been pretty busy this month with work and some family matters, so my contributions were pretty much non existant. Or so I thought. Then I remembered:

Contribution to Free Software is not just writing code, it’s anything you do for the improvement of a Free Software project.

This includes bug reports, translations, meetings, promotion, etc. And I’ve done plenty of those.

Let’s see now: (in what ever order I remember them)

I’ve helped 2 of the most active KDE Romanian translators gain developer access so that they may commit their translations without bottlenecking through other people. Thank you Viorel Cătălin Răpițeanu and Jobava Bareev for your hard work and dedication.

I’ve had the idea for a while now to write a blog post at the end of each month where to summarize my contributions in Free Software for the previous month, the purpose being to keep track of my contributions. So here’s my first attempt:

This month began with a super KDE Sprint for KDevelop and Kate. I’ve mentioned the things I did and learned in my previous blog post.

During this sprint I’ve had the great opportunity to meet more of the KDE developers and talk with them about many things related or not to KDE. In fact, one of the developers I’ve met there,I’ve interviewed in this month’s Kubuntu Podcast, together with Aaron Honeycutt and Rick Timmis.

At the beginning of this month, KDE held a sprint for KDevelop and Kate, where a bunch of us met and coded like crazy.

I was the first to arrive, in the morning of the 7th of October and around 10, and since I couldn’t get in the apartment till 14 I had some time to kill. So I decided to go for a little sight seeing in the nearby park.

In the evening people started to arrive, and started coding before unpacking. My first impression of them was: „These people really love to code”.

First of all, sorry for the long absence. I’m involved in many projects and I couldn’t get to this earlier.

Here are the updates:

I’ve bought an extender for the RP pins from Jola Engineering and soldered the shim onto it. Now I can put everything together nicely.

I had a pile of Ice cream sticks laying around and I was looking for something to do with them.

I recently got a Raspberry Pi 2, so I’ve decided to build a case for it.

Some super glue magic and some hole drilling (need to work on my skills here), and voilà.