[dot] KDE @ LinuxTag 2004: A Great Success Bodes Well for aKademy

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1089110402/

From: Dre <pour at kde.org>
Dept: every-day-is-Linux-day
Date: Tuesday 06/Jul/2004, @12:40

KDE @ LinuxTag 2004: A Great Success Bodes Well for aKademy
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   "The tenth annual LinuxTag proved to be a very successful event for
the forty-plus KDE developers who presented their award-winning desktop
environment to more than 16,000 enthusiastic visitors at 'Europe's
largest OpenSource Event'."  So begins Torsten Rahn's excellent report
on KDE's presence at LinuxTag 2004.
 [http://www.linuxtag.org/2004/]


  I. KDE @ LINUXTAG 2004: A GREAT SUCCESS BODES WELL FOR AKADEMY

 June 30. 2004 (Karlsruhe, Germany). The tenth annual LinuxTag proved to
be a very successful event for the forty-plus KDE developers who
presented their award-winning desktop environment to more than 16,000
enthusiastic visitors at "Europe's largest OpenSource Event".  As
expected, the upcoming KDE Community World Summit 2004
[http://conference2004.kde.org/] ("aKademy"), which will be held between
21-29 August, 2004 in Ludwigsburg (Stuttgart Region), Germany, strongly
influenced many of the talks and presentations by the KDE team.

 As usual, the KDE booth in the exhibition area was crowded. Six to
eight demopoints were available for LinuxTag visitors to learn about the
current KDE 3.2 release, accessibility, the KDE FreeNX
[http://dot.kde.org/1088363665/] project, personal information
management (KDE PIM), the award-winning KDevelop
[http://www.kdevelop.org/] IDE as well as the future of KDE. Many users
also took the opportunity to personally provide developers with valuable
feedback and suggestions. KDE developers used the hacking area to work
on KDE FreeNX, jointly develop new ideas and generally hack on KDE. Of
course LinuxTag also offers the opportunity to meet some KDE developers
from outside Germany.  As special guests, David Faure (KDE France) and
Fabrice Mous (KDE-NL) attended the fair.

 Some related software projects, who had been invited to the KDE booth
to enhance cooperation, took advantage of the opportunity.  Members of
the QtForum.org [http://www.qtforum.org/] project helped to spur
interest in KDE and Qt development. Oliver Fels from the Opie
[http://opie.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/] team demonstrated syncing
the PDA / handheld GUI environment with KDE.  And in a joint effort with
the Skolelinux [http://www.skolelinux.no/] project, the KDE Team
demonstrated the rapid development progress of free educational
software. LinuxTag's Social Event on Friday was another good opportunity
to meet and talk (and have a beer!) with members of other projects or
companies. And just like last year, on Thursday night KDE, SkoleLinux,
QtForum.org, Gnome and Debian team members dined together.

 Dozens of KDE related talks took place at the conference area. Kurt
Pfeifle and Fabian Franz made numerous presentations and speeches which
covered Knoppix [http://www.knoppix.org/] and the NX-Technology, which
generated a lot of buzz. In their speeches, Ralf Nolden, Klas Kalass and
Daniel Molkentin presented the Enterprise Desktop KDE and provided an
overview of new features in KDE 3.2. Bo Thorsen gave a talk on Kolab
which was very well received. In their presentation "KOffice - The Road
Ahead", David Faure, Ariya Hidayat and Lucijan Busch provided
interesting details about the state and future of the KDE Office Suite.
And Eva Brucherseifer demonstrated the ease of migration to the Qt
multiplattform framework in her speech.

 The KDE Project would like to thank Hewlett Packard
[http://www.hp.com/], Fujitsu Siemens [http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/]
and Transtec [http://www.transtec.de/] for providing the booth with
hardware, and Novell [http://www.novell.com/linux/] / SuSE
[http://www.suse.com/], Credativ [http://www.credativ.de/], basysKom
[http://www.basyskom.com/], Froglogic [http://www.froglogic.com/],
Trolltech [http://www.trolltech.com/] and KDE e.V.
[http://www.kde.org/areas/kde-ev/] for their support. Last but not least
we'd like to congratulate the dedicated LinuxTag Organization Team on a
successful event. We all look forward to meet you at LinuxTag 2005!

 Photos, photos, photos:

    * http://ariya.pandu.org/gallery/linuxtag2004/
      [http://ariya.pandu.org/gallery/linuxtag2004/]
    * http://devel-home.kde.org/~tackat/LT2004/images.html
      [http://devel-home.kde.org/~tackat/LT2004/images.html]