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From: Mark Bucciarelli <mark at hubcapconsulting.com>
Dept: all-your-awards-are-belong-to-us
Date: Thursday15/Jan/2004, @14:49

Strong KDE Presence at LinuxWorld NYC
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   The preparations for the KDE presence at the upcoming LinuxWorld NYC
[http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/] are now complete.  It should be a
blast!  We have ten KDE volunteers staffing the booth, some great demo
hardware (generously provided by SUSE), a seven-foot banner, Kolab
Server/KDE [http://www.kolab.org/] Groupware demos on a 21" LCD
(provided by Ian Reinhart Geiser), and a laptop we will give away to one
lucky booth visitor.  It is also worth a mention that KDE has been named
finalist in two categories
[http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn?ID=10240] of
the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards: Best Open Source Project and
Best Development Tool (KDevelop) [http://www.kdevelop.org/]. The North
American PR momentum continues to grow!

     On the technical side, in addition to the two SUSE machines running
KDE 3.2, Ian Reinhart Geiser will have a minicube with Debian unstable
and XFree 4.3 and have demos for:
    * KDE Groupware with Kolab and SourceExtreme's Kolab connector
    * KDevelop 3.0 and Quanta
    * KConfigXT
      [http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/kconfigxt/kconfi
      gxt.html],
       KDE EDU [http://edu.kde.org/], KDE Desktop Services, and KJSEmbed
 All this in addition to general Q&A on KDE deployment and development
in companies.
     Sticking with the KJSEmbed theme, on Thursday George Staikos will
present a talk on desktop scripting (KJSEmbed, DCOP, and other fun
stuff) that is only available to people with conference passes.
     In addition to the technical demos, we also have a bit of press
relations set up.  George will be doing a 15 minute SysCon radio show on
"What's New in 3.2" and Brian Proffitt (managing editor at Linux Today)
will stop by on Wednesday to get an update on progress on the Conquering
the Enterprise Desktop [http://dot.kde.org/1071510647/] initiative.
     A final note of thanks to Nathan Krause at NALeKRA
[http://www.nalekra.com].  He approached the KDE e.V. with an offer of
thanks for all the great work done on KDE, and as a token of his
appreciation he donated a laptop to KDE that we will give away at the
booth.  Thanks Nathan!
     If you are going to the show, be sure to stop by and say hello!