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From: Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <duncan at kde.org>
Dept: who-ate-my-tacosdept.
Date: Wednesday17/Nov/2004, @10:32

XpoLinux Monterrey 2004 Business Summit Report
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   Ian Geiser and I traveled to Monterrey, Mexico to attend the KDE
booth in the ExpoLinux 2004 Business Summit [http://www.expolinux.org/]
(1st to 3rd November). The Expo was located in a place called Cintermex,
specially adapted for conferences and expos. There were like 25 booths
with local business showing business solutions. The biggers being
Novell, IBM and Hewlett Packard. We were in a normal booth, and the fact
that ours was one of the most visited was very interesting.

     We also had the opportunity to spend time with the Monterrey Linux
User Group and share lot of ideas for promoting KDE there. Some of the
LUG members where interested in starting coding KDE stuff. We will see
if Mexico gets more involved in KDE in the future.

     A very interesting experience happened when we were invited by
Manuel Hernandez from open|Sys [http://www.opensys.com.mx/] to a school
(Colegio Euroamericano de Monterrey) were they deployed SuSE / KDE in
180 PCs. The children use KDE from the first moment they touch a
computer in the school. We had a discussion with teachers and listened
to their needs, most of them (remote desktop and kiosk) was a matter of
upgrading the deploy.  We see this deployment as a success case and a
great opportunity to have a live installation to test the edutainment
project.
 [http://edu.kde.org/]
     Pictures:

 Event Logo (image)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/logo.jpg] Preparing
the KDE Booth (small)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/1s.jpg] (big)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/1.jpg] Ian and
Duncan at the booth (small)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/2s.jpg] (big)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/2.jpg] Ian telling
the crowd about KDE and the community (small)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/3s.jpg] (big)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/3.jpg] Duncan
showing Mr. Potato (the most popular Linux app of the Expo) to a kid.
(small) [http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/4s.jpg]
(big) [http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/4.jpg] The
Hewlet Packard booth was very nice (small)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/5s.jpg] (big)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/5.jpg] The interest
in KDE dev tools made Ian improvise a technical talk focused in RAD
development. The talk was translated to Spanish in real time. (small)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/6s.jpg] (big)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/6.jpg] Duncan giving
the scheduled talk. The talk was about KDE community, technology
available for users and developers and future directions of the project.
(in Spanish) (small)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/7s.jpg] (big)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/7.jpg] (PDF slides)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/charla.pdf] Duncan
(KDE), Louis (openoffice), Juan Pablo (Gnome, our host in Monterrey),
and Ian (KDE) (small)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/8s.jpg] (big)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/8.jpg] One of the
labs running KDE (small)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/9s.jpg] (big)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/9.jpg] This is a
Linux Zone (small)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/10s.jpg] (big)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/10.jpg] Ian and
Duncan answering kids questions (small)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/11s.jpg] (big)
[http://events.kde.org/contrib/events/monterrey2004/11.jpg]