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<br></div><div><div class="im">The KDE Community at DA-IICT [0] is pleased to announce "KDE Meetup 2013" [1] <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">This two day
conference scheduled in February will bring together Qt
Developers, KDE contributors, open source enthusiasts and users from all across
the nation. The meetup will give you the opportunity to learn, share,
contribute, innovate and create limitless possibilities by using most
emerging technologies.</span><br><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">KDE Meetup is the
first large scale open source conference to be held in Gujarat and the
largest </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(46,52,54)">KDE/Qt event</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"> in India since <a href="http://conf.kde.in/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">conf.kde.in</span></a> in 2011.</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <br>



</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">For those of you who don't know, <a href="http://conf.kde.in" target="_blank">conf.kde.in</a> was a big success and resulted in a large number of KDE Contributors. We're  hoping that this KDE Meetup will give similar results.</span></p>


</div><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">The agenda is still under development and can be found over here [2]</p><div class="im"><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">This meetup is an excellent platform for
you to learn about FOSS and start contributing to it. You
will experience the KDE world, understanding the latest developments
happening in it. The Talks, Tutorials, Interactive Sessions, Coding Jams will
lay your foundations to become a part of KDE community and even participate in
programs like <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Google Summer of Code</span></a> and <a href="http://teom.org/blog/kde/announcing-season-of-kde-2012/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Season of KDE</span></a>. Last year, KDE was biggest
participating organizing in GSoC with selection of 60
students.The sessions </span></div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(46,52,54)">will range from the beginner to advanced level,
to facilitate all kinds of participants.<br><b><br>Registrations [3] for KDE Meetup are open now. Early bird registration fee for KDE Meetup is </b></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(46,52,54)"><b><span>₹</span>400 only.</b><br>

<br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(46,52,54)">This KDE Meetup is still actively looking for sponsors [4]. If you know some company that would be willing to sponsor this event, please get in touch with the organizers.</span><div class="im">
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<br>[0] <a href="http://www.gdgdaiict.com/" target="_blank">http://www.gdgdaiict.com/</a><br>[1] <a href="http://www.gdgdaiict.com/kdemeetup/" target="_blank">http://www.gdgdaiict.com/kdemeetup/</a><br>
</div><div>[2] <a href="http://www.gdgdaiict.com/kdemeetup/agenda.html" target="_blank">http://www.gdgdaiict.com/kdemeetup/agenda.html</a><br>[3] <a href="http://www.gdgdaiict.com/kdemeetup/register.php" target="_blank">http://www.gdgdaiict.com/kdemeetup/register.php</a><br>

[4] <a href="http://www.gdgdaiict.com/kdemeetup/sponsors.html" target="_blank">http://www.gdgdaiict.com/kdemeetup/sponsors.html</a><br><br><br>Thank you!<br><br>Cheers,<br>Yash
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