Renato Botelho, aka garga, and I picked up the gauntlet and put together the compat7x port for the upcoming release of FreeBSD 8.
We initially targeted a small audience, and gradually extended our scope. We are now looking for more testers. Those inclined to give it a try are encouraged to download the shar from http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe/patches/misc-compat7x-7.2.702000.200908.shar
Please note that the standard disclaimers apply.
Any feedback is appreciated to garga@ and/or tabthorpe@
I will be mentoring Dima along with Martin Wilke. Dima was instrumental working behind the scenes in preparing the FreeBSD port of KDE 4.3 and as a result we are punishing him with a commit bit.
Dima’s new handle is fluffy@FreeBSD.org.
Just remember Dima, you are not a real committer until you break the INDEX, then fix it!
http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-we-send-developers-to-conferences.html
How cool is that? The FreeBSD Foundation used my BSDCan 2009 report as a means of encouraging other developers to attend the conferences and to access Foundation resources.
Apparently I can serve as a role model of how to do things 
The FreeBSD KDE team is pleased to announce the availability of Qt 4.5.2 in the area51 repo. Please see the announcement, http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2009-July/005746.html for details.
A brief in discussion on the freebsd-ports thread convinced me to change my proposal from i18n to internationalization, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-June/055475.html
I will await further potential feedback, Friday will mark one week since I made the original post. At that time, I will get my act together and take my proposal to portmgr@.
Stay tuned.
Just because life is not complicated enough, I opened up a can of worms by proposing a new ports category for the internationalisation/localisation effort.
It is my hopes to move all the *i18n* and *l10n* ports out of the misc category to their new home.
Please, please, please, if you have an opinion, pro or con to this proposal, check out my original post, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-June/055412.html
and reply to it via the ports@ mailing list.
Just to reiterate a posting by miwi,http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2009/06/fresh-blood-for-kde-freebsd-team/, we have added two more members to the FreeBSD KDE team, newly minted Ports Committer Kris Moore of PCBSD, and Dima “Red Fox” Panov.
We have been working diligently to keep to the KDE beta schedule. The work we do is being stored in a repository, http://websvn.pcbsd.org, for inclusion to the FreeBSD Ports tree.
If you are interested in testing, you can read more at http://freebsd.kde.org
I finally got around the localisation issue for the German and Japanese upates and committed them to the ports tree.
Please use them, and enjoy!
P.S. Pav, officially not abandoned now
I finally managed to get Citrix 11 committed to the repository as net/citrix_xenapp. The Citrix 10 client will be left as net/citrix_ica for a little while yet.
Please be aware that the Xen App client requires linux-f8 emulation to install and run. Please check out my wiki page for further instructions.
I still need to do some localisation testing for the German and Japanese versions.
Stay tuned…
P.S. Pav the repocopies still aren’t abandoned 
Short story long, I was privileged to meet Greg Larkin, glarkin@, at BSDCan 2009. We were chatting during lunch time one day and he says something like, “I really should mentor somebody”. I told him I would take him up on the offer in the near future.
That moment arrived, to co-mentor avl@.
Congratulations Alexander, may your pointyhats be elusive