Franz Keferböck

Some while ago Sebas was posting a picture of a classy, cool car on his blog. It was classy and cool mainly for three reasons:

• it’s my car
• there was 20 bottles of the world-famous and brilliant austrian beers in there (details)
• there was those coooooooooool KDE Logo stickers on each door

Now i brought a stack of close to 40 of those stickers here to aKademy, where they where gone within seconds (hm, it was explicitly told to use these on CARS, as this is some special sticker foil to _stay_ on the car and thus really expensive. And i don’t think some people is gonna expose their laptop to some carwash or go 200KM/h on some german motorway exposing the lid to the wind…whatever ).
I was told that there was more people interested than i brought stickers, so herewith i will offer to produce them on request. I could also put a description on here on how to make them, but you do need a special needle-plotter and the foil. In case you still want to know though, tell me and i’ll publish the procedure…

I can do them at a friends fathers office, they’re producing this stuff there in small amounts. It’s quite timeconsuming manual work (those 38 stickers took us more than four hours!) and the material is quite expensive (for two Logos and twice the URL-text it’s something like 12€+), so i cannot give any more out for free (these i got for a few beers i pay that friend of mine – greetz Sengsti!, and we used rests of foil – which is now all gone). Now to get these two things covered for the next ones, i will have to ask you for 15€+shipping costs per Set (2x logo, 2x text). Further, this is some private thing i do, so please be patient, i won’t do every sticker quick snap as i can only use the equipment when it’s not used for actual customers…

Drop me an email in case you want some – pictures of these to come soon (for those who don’t have seen the now-lost picture on sebas’ blog…)

Guess that’s pretty much it, i’m hungry and tired, will change the hacking room for a pub soon (given somebody’s willing to join me…)

Wow, there’s been four days of aKademy now, and there has been so much exciting happening to me… first off, i’m on PlanetKDE (so hi there!). Second, i was accepted as a member of KDE e.V. – thank you very much, it means a lot to me! Thanks especially to Sebas and Adriaan for supporting me with actually showing me how valuable promotional and marketing work is – so for KDE. And that’s just about what i intend to push further, i guess i can do it, it’s good fun, and there’s so much i get back (now that’s cheesy, but yes, the feeling to be active part of the community).

Then there’s one thing i’d like to do – and i’ll start with this post: Aaron was complaining once, that people is well posting about their technical process they’re having, but it’s only him giving those nice insights into his reallife. Well, i’m not a celebrity (well, yes, that term was actually used by some guy in a pub, telling his girlfriend who we where – greetz in case you read this) and generally doing so would just so bore you. But there are quite a lot KDE related incidents, that i guess are worth being told…

So yesterday – after the official evening programme – a whole cluster of KDE people moved over to a pub cross St. George’s Square. Been there before, cheap, nice. When an older guy (hi, Leo!) next to the table we decided to occupy came to ask if us was some international students, having some student’s night in there (not sure if he was kinda scared of this idea…). Telling him that we were not, i happened to end up in a longer conversation with him (i’m talkin’ ’bout hours). Thing is, i really stayed with answering his questions, not distracting him with technical detail, kept things simple. And he was oh soooo interested, kept on asking, and really got hooked up by the ideas of open source – and KDE. I managed to get him a LiveCD (thanks, Jos) and explained the problems of proprietary formats, the problems governments impose on citizens by (implicitly) forcing certain software on people – sometime not even realizing so!
OK, now usually even people who’s sitting alone in a pub will turn a conversation on computer science down (well i would, if it wasn’t in my explicit interest), so either he was _really_ brave, or just plain interested. Still it was really cool!