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From: Duncan Mac-Vicar P. <duncan at kde.org>
Dept: llamas-like-kde
Date: Monday 04/Apr/2005, @04:48

KDE at Latin America Free Software Install Festival Report
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   Last Saturday saw the first Latin America Free Software Install Fest
[http://installfest.info/default.en] held simultaneously in 74 cities
and 12 countries.  KDE was present at the Santiago location
[http://www.cdsl.cl/flisol/flisol-final.jpg] for installation assistance
and a talk by Maurucio Bahamonde on KDE 3.4.  We offered Kubuntu
[http://www.kubuntu.org] Live CDs to try out the desktop and the team
offered help to install.

     The event took place in the artistic "El sindicato" Culture Centre,
which organiser CDSL [http://www.cdsl.cl] had got use of. Visitor
numbers were higher than expected.

     amaroK and KDevelop were the programs that caused most of the
"woo!" sounds, and the whole desktop was very highly rated by the people
who tested it on our demo machine.

     KDE was represented by KDE Chile [http://www.kde.cl] members Matias
Fernandez (Developer of KoolDock, Author of KGo! and KGoogleApplet),
Mauricio Bahamonde (Author of Kopete text to speech plugin), Matias
Valdenegro, Duncan Mac-Vicar (Kopete developer and official KDE
representative in Chile) and Sebastian Sariego.

     Enjoy the pictures of the event:

    * Duncan Mac-Vicar and Mauricio Bahamonde
    * KDE Chile team showing a KDE 3.4 desktop enabled PC
      [http://img87.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img87&image=10020658xh.jpg]
      (really it was Duncan's laptop hidden under the desk, a 17"
      monitor and a usb keyboard/mouse).
    * People
    * Crowd, install fest and talks in parallel.
    * More people.
    * Mauricio's talk about
      [http://img87.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img87&image=10021026mt.jpg] KDE
      3.4 and the KDE project.
    * Matias [http://img87.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img87&image=10021067kk.jpg]
      doing the job of pressing the space key when Mauricio raised his
      eyebrow  to mean 'next slide please'.
    * KDE Chile logo.
      [http://img87.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img87&image=10021141ri.jpg]
      (designed by Sebastian Sariego, printed by Mauricio Bahamonde).
    * Logo of organisers Free Software Promotion Centre.
    * Mauricio installing Kubuntu
      [http://img87.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img87&image=10021237tu.jpg] for a
      user.
    * kde.cl team
      [http://img87.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img87&image=10021386vt.jpg]:
      Matias Valdenegro, Mauricio Bahamonde, Duncan Mac-Vicar and Matias
      Fernandez. Missing: Sebastian Sariego.
    * Sharing a beer [http://img87.exs.cx/img87/1297/10021511ys.th.jpg]
      with gnome.cl people.