[dot] Audio Interviews from Akademy 2006

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From: Danny Allen <danny at commit-digest.org>
Dept: hear-our-voices
Date: Monday 23/Oct/2006, @16:42

Audio Interviews from Akademy 2006
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   The landmark event of the KDE calendar, the KDE World Conference,
continues to surprise even its most excitable fans with the emergence of
six audio interviews recorded at Akademy 2006
[http://conference2006.kde.org/], in Dublin, Ireland. The interviews all
feature prominent current contributors, and cover a diverse and
interesting mix of topics relevant to the present and future of the KDE
project.  To get future audio features automatically, subscribe to one
of the KDE://radio [http://radio.kde.org/] RSS feeds: Ogg
[http://radio.kde.org/pub/konqcast/konqcast.rss], MP3
[http://radio.kde.org/pub/konqcast/konqcast_mp3.rss].  Read on for a
summary of the interviews.

    * Matthias Kretz: Open Source Desktop Multimedia
      Phonon is a hot topic when it comes to the Free sofwtare desktop
      and KDE4. Wade Olsen takes a few minutes to talk with Matthias
      Kretz on this topic while in Dublin.
    * Jens Herden: KhmerOS and KDE In Asia Living
      in Cambodia and working on both Quanta and KhmerOS, Jens Herden
      shares his insights on KDE, open source and Asia with Wade Olsen
      at this year's Akademy.
    * Jos van den Oever: The Search For Strigi
      Indexing engine author Jos van den Oever explores the
      possibilities of Strigi and KDE4 with Wade Olsen as a means to
      find and explore information.
    * Ken Wimer and David Vignoni: KDE 4's New Look Two
      members of KDE's talented art team, Ken Wimer and David Vignoni,
      chat about art and beauty with Wade Olsen in Dublin while at
      aKademy 2006.
    * Cornelius Schumacher: Organising Akademy KDE developer and KDE
e.V. board member Cornelius Schumacher
      speaks with Wade Olsen in Dublin about the efforts put into
      organising Akademy 2006 to make it a successful and worthwhile
      event.
    * Pradeepto Bhattacharya: KDE.in(dia) Pradeepto Bhattacharya and
Wade Olsen discuss Pradeepto's work
      with the KDE India regional group, KDE Asia and Akademy 2006.

     In related news Daniel Molkentin did an interview on RadioTux
[http://www.linuxpodcast.de/index.php?id=69] in German, talking about
Phonon, Plasma and KDE-PIM.