Last week was LinuxTag in Wiesbaden, Germany. This was a great opportunity to get to meet developers, talk about Ubuntu/Kubuntu, get feedback on our work, discover new technologies that we might want to get in Ubuntu, and just spend a nice time.
Most of the main Kubuntu contributors were present: Jonathan Riddell who came on Saturday with Mark (sabdfl), Andreas Mueller (amu), Stephan Hermann (\sh), Anthony Mercatante (Tonio_) who came on Saturday aswell,Kenneth Wimer (kwwii), Mirjam Wäckerlin (Zerlinna).
It was very nice to be able to meet after so much time working together online, and we also enjoyed spending evenings together in restaurants and at social events (LinuxTag and KDE social events).
I have to say I was very impressed by the Ubuntu presence there. There was an official Canonical booth, where I was able to meet Jeff Bailey (jbailey), Daniel Holbach (dholbach), Michael Vogt (mvo) and Oliver Grawert (ogra). There also was a community booth for Ubuntu, Edubuntu and Kubuntu, where we were staying. But in addition to this, most booths had either books on Ubuntu or computers running Ubuntu or Kubuntu. The KDE booth was running Kubuntu, VServer was running Ubuntu and Kubuntu, and most book stores had Ubuntu books as best sellers 
Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) arrived on Saturday, for the Ubuntu Love Day, and we began this day with a meeting gathering Kubuntu and KDE people. The goal was to try and find solutions to better work together, improve the communications between KDE and Kubuntu developers, link the Bug Tracking Systems, share our ideas of future developments. It was decided that the KDE community would appoint 4 or 5 people to come and participate in the Edgy meeting in Paris in the end of June, when the a Kubuntu Technical Board will be elected.
After this meeting, Mark gave a talk on Ubuntu, and confirmed his commitment to Kubuntu, by wearing a KDE t-shirt The room was full, and most people had to stand to fit in for the talk, although two rooms had been gathered by removing the wall between them.
Right after that, I gave a talk on Kubuntu, focusing on the new features in Dapper.
Pictures of the LinuxTag 2006 taken by several Kubuntu contributors can be found on my gallery. There is also a video made by Ken here.
This time in Wiesbaden ended in a cute restaurant in the center of Wiesbaden.
Looking forward to the meeting in Paris!