Hach, Berlin my love – it is always great to be in this wonderful city and if the reason is an OpenSource event like the Desktop Summit it gets even better! I was really surprised to hear, that the Desktop Summit is an one week conference, but it does make sense, especially combining an overall conference program and an unconference with this huge community of Gnome and KDE contributors. It was great to meet old friends and also meet new people and see how passionate people are about what they are doing and sharing their knowledge and helping each other out. For the first three days, we had an Intel AppUp developer program booth in the main hall giving out Club Mate (some thought it was beer, no no no – we are not giving out alcohol on a Saturday morning! ;-)) including an QR code and a raffle to win one of seven very cool Lenovo Netvertibles:



One person was even willing to trade in his shades for a Club Mate ;-)



Mirko – one of the organizers - was kind enough to let us on stage to announce the winners – congrats!



On Wednesday we had our MeeGo AppLab also at the Humboldt University which was great fun and had a wonderful getting back to school feeling. The room was packed and even if we did not hand out chocolate (our colleague Paul wasn`t there), we got a lot of questions and interest:



AppUp is able to deal with open source software – from licenses to redistributing the code which is quite unique for an AppStore. Sulamita mentioned this in her presentation about MeeGo, App submission and validation. But first on stage was our Marketing Manager Björn introducing the Intel AppUp developer program:

Afterwards Sulamita had her presentation and shared her profound knowledge about MeeGo and OpenSource. Thanks for being around the next day and helping out with the tablet updates and MeeGo images:

Then Bernie took over the stage with his tool demos and of course there were also some slides:

We had great fun in Berlin, thanks to all participants and kudos to the organizers: awesome job guys – you rock!