so the very kind folks who won the Akademy awards last year ( sebastian trueg, matthias kretz, danny allen ) decided to go ahead and award Amarok with the Best Application award! we are obviously very excited and very pleased to win this award, and want to (tearfully) thank all those users who have been with us through the long dark (teatime of the soul) times of Amarok 1.x.... wait, we never had those. nevermind.
Anyway, I would like to thank everyone on the behalf of the Amarok team for supporting us, and most of all for believing in us throughout the long Amarok 2 process. It's coming. Soon. But Not Yet (tm).
The other winners of Akademy awards this year include Nuno Pinheiro (Oxygen) for Best Non-Application Contribution, and we're exceedingly glad to be able to say that we have been collaborating with Nuno to get some kick-ass new looks for Amarok. Our continued cooperation will definitely result in some pretty sweet new designs for Amarok, and we are really happy to be working with him.
The other winner of the Best Contributor to KDE is none other than Aaron Seigo, KDE dancer extraordinaire and resident party animal. After a late night saturday, Aaron was able to provide enough lap dances to the judges to sway their opinion in his favor, and he took home the goods.
I'm excited to be done with the talk portion of Akademy, and to get to the hackathon sessions. I'll have to find a way to get through the e.V. meeting tomorrow, but other than that, expect a productive week of amarok hacking coming up!
