[dot] aKademy 2005 Kicked Off!

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From: Aaron J. Seigo <>
Dept: you-don't-speak-spanish?
Date: Saturday 27/Aug/2005, @13:06

aKademy 2005 Kicked Off!
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   Following yesterday's rousing KDE e.V.
[http://www.kde.org/areas/kde-ev] meeting, aKademy 2005
[http://conference2005.kde.org] officially kicked off today with dual
presentation tracks filled with content designed for users and system
administrators. At the same time the hacking rooms were full of busy
developers from morning until evening at which point everyone went to a
party sponsored by Novell [http://www.novell.com].

     The opening address was delivered by a panel made up of
representatives from the University of Málaga, the provincial government
of Andalusia, and the president of KDE e.V.

     Next up was Pete Goodall, the product manager of the Novell Linux
Desktop, who related Novell's experience with their Linux desktop
migration effort. KDE project members followed this up with
presentations on Kolab2 [http://www.kolab.org], the Kiosk desktop
configuration management framework [http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin],
and the NX [http://www.nomachine.com] terminal server solution. The
second keynote of the day was given by Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth
who emphasized the importance of collaboration among open source
projects to be successful.

     All the while, KDE developers who were not busy presenting topics
to those in attendance were working on a wide variety of projects in the
computer labs. Many of the developers broke out into working groups over
the course of the day to discuss and design KDE4 components such as IPC,
scripting, art and desktop configuration in preparation of the week-long
hackfest that starts Wednesday.

     Be sure to visit Planet KDE [http://www.planetkde.org] to read live
developer blogs from Málaga, the wiki for talk transcripts
[http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Talks%20%40%20aKademy%202005]
and check back here daily for regular aKademy 2005 updates.