Running on Cheese and Chocolate

This is a big thank you, a thank you to all the people who made the Randa Meeting 2014 possible, the people who invested their time and their energy to go there and work on free software, and the people who made donations to support this.

Tons of things happened at Randa this year. Among other things there was lot of porting work to KDE Frameworks 5 done on kdevplatform, KMyMoney, Gwenview, KMix, Artikulate, and Kig. KDevelop got QML and Javascript support, the API docs got some love, Phonon 4.8 Beta was released, KStars tools got polishing, Kdenlive got a roadmap, and the first alpha of the Inqlude tool was released. We wrote a book, and made a movie:

It can't be overestimated what kind of magic place Mario created at Randa. It is such a focused and supportive environment, that it's hard to not be productive. It generates a sense of community which reaches way beyond the meeting itself, and fuels so much of future work. I have written about what makes this special spirit. But I suspect that the real secret is that Mario runs us on Swiss cheese and chocolate for a week.

So thanks again to the donors, to the sponsors, to the people who wrote code, or text, or took photos, or brought their kids, or organized, or simply provided happiness, or helped in any other way. It was an awesome event.