[dot] KDE Celebrates 10 Years of the Free Desktop

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From: Jonathan Riddell <>
Dept: almost-a-teenager
Date: Saturday 14/Oct/2006, @07:03

KDE Celebrates 10 Years of the Free Desktop
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   Yesterday at 10:00 AM the president of the KDE e.V. Eva Brucherseifer
welcomed the audience of the presentation track at the KDE anniversary
event at the Technische Akademie Esslingen [http://www.tae.de] (TAE) in
Ostfildern near Stuttgart, Germany. Keynote speakers were Matthias
Ettrich [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Ettrich], founder of the
KDE project, as well as Klaus Knopper
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Knopper] of Knoppix fame.  During
their presentations they looked back at KDE's successful past 10 years
and they offered their thoughts about the future of KDE and Free
Software [http://www.fsf-europe.org].

     Jono Bacon, Canonical's community manager of Ubuntu / Kubuntu
[http://www.kubuntu.org/], congratulated KDE with his own presentation
about Kubuntu and KDE. Jan Mühlig from Relevantive
[http://www.relevantive.de/] and Daniel Molkentin, KDE e.V. talked about
Usability and KDE 4. In the afternoon the audience of the presentation
track met for a group photo and celebrated the event with sparkling wine
and a big birthday cake. Even our Konqi mascot of the project was
present - this time made of marzipan, right on the top of the birthday
cake.
  [http://developer.kde.org/~tackat/kde10party/kde10years1.jpg]
     Right after the afternoon break the presentation track continued
with a speech from Heinz-M. Gräsing from the city of Treuchtlingen who
gave some insights about the successful migration of Treuchtlingen
[http://www.treuchtlingen.de/] to KDE. The presentation part of the
anniversary was concluded by Knut Yrvin, community manager at Trolltech,
who surveyed the KDE 10 Years raffle together with Eva Brucherseifer. As
prizes Trolltech offered a Qtopia Greenphone
[http://www.qtopiagreenphone.com/] and Open Source Press
[https://www.opensourcepress.de/] offered Daniel Molkentin's new book
about Qt4 programming.
[http://www.amazon.de/Qt-4-Einfhrung-die-Applikationsentwicklung/dp/3937514120/ref=sr_11_1/302-0390506-7200839?ie=UTF8]
  [http://developer.kde.org/~tackat/kde10party/kde10years2.jpg]
     Further KDE people arrived at the TAE in the evening when people
met in the cottage for a delicious big "italian" dinner. We clinked
glasses later at midnight when the date turned into the actual
anniversary.

     The KDE project would like to thank the speakers of the
presentation track, the Technische Akademie Esslingen, Trolltech
[http://www.trolltech.com] and Open Source Press for their support of
the whole event. A special "thank you" goes to the confectioner who
created that awesome marzipan dragon for the cake.  And of course we
would like to thank all the people who were not able to attend the event
and who sent their nice wishes to the KDE Project.
  [http://developer.kde.org/~tackat/kde10party/kde10years3.jpg]