Hi,<br>February was the month of my KDE south Indian tour. I went to 3 reputed<br>colleges to promote free software and to be more specific KDE :)<br>I spoke at 3 events about which I will be telling .<br>FOSSCONF - A open source event jointly organised by NRCFOSS and ILUGC at<br>
Madras Institute of Technology . (Chennai) <br>I spoke about KDE4 and How to create plasmoids .<br>INFINITY2k8- Osmania University(Hyderabad) Dept of Computers annual tech<br>festival<br>I spoke about KDE4 and how it will revolutionise the Desktop &<br>
educational apps in KDE4.<br>PENGUFEST- A Linux based sub-event in pragyan which is the technical<br>festival of National Institute of Technology Trichy . <br>I spoke about Linux Desktop showed students plasma and other hot<br>
technologies.I also showed the educational apps such as parley,marble &<br>kalgebra . Students want to use parley for their GRE preparation :)<br>one question which was posed to me was " These educational apps exist<br>
everywhere on the web " whats new ? <br>A student itself answered the question by telling the importance of free<br>software .. while I told about KHotNewStuff and how users can contribute<br>their lessons ,audio files and vocabularies --> the "Giving back "<br>
thing . I also told that these all as a package are not available else<br>where.. maybe some one can come up with a better answer ;)<br>>>From Osmania University some students want to contribute back to KDE ..<br>I suggested they could start with localisation as their bandwidth was<br>
low .<br><br>I referred to techbase article for getting started with plasma . Many<br>thanks to Anne Marie Mahouf (annma) and jeremy whiting( jpwhiting)<br>(#kde-edu) for helping me prepare these slides and guiding me .<br>
<br>The slides are available at <a href="http://pavithran.org/slides/infinity2k8-kde.odp">http://pavithran.org/slides/infinity2k8-kde.odp</a> and <a href="http://pavithran.org/slides/pragyan08-kde.odp">http://pavithran.org/slides/pragyan08-kde.odp</a><br>
feel free to comment on the content and<br>design :)<br><br>PS: More juicy details in my blog :) <br><br>Regards,<br> <br>pavithran shakamuri<br><a href="http://www.look-pavi.blogspot.com">www.look-pavi.blogspot.com</a><br>
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