[dot] Report: KDE at LugRadio Live

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From: Ben Lamb <>
Dept: curry-and-beer
Date: Tuesday 05/Jul/2005, @12:44

Report: KDE at LugRadio Live
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   LugRadio [http://www.lugradio.org] is a fortnightly podcast covering
everything Open Source and last weekend they held the first community
run Linux exhibition in England. Jonathan Riddell, lead developer of
Kubuntu [http://www.kubuntu.org], and Ben Lamb were there to demo the
newly released KOffice [http://www.koffice.org/] 1.4, Kubuntu and the
upcoming features of KDE 3.5. Jonathan gave a talk
[http://jriddell.org/programs/kubuntu-lugradio-talk-06-2005/] about
Kubuntu development and KDE 4.
  The KDE talk was "one of the most interesting talks of the day"
[http://www.david-web.co.uk/blog/?p=115]
     The day was a surprising success with over 250 people, 4 times as
many as expected.  Due to some last minute timetabled changes the KDE
talk was promoted to the main stage.  Jonathan's talk focused on
Kubuntu, an easy to install GNU/Linux distribution based around the KDE
desktop. It is an ideal way to get the latest version of KDE and several
hundred CDs were eagerly picked up by visitors.

     Ben commented "Visitors were really impressed by how polished KDE
applications are. Krita [http://www.koffice.org/krita], the new KDE
image manipulation program, was very well received and Kexi
[http://www.koffice.org/krita] also generated a lot of interest."

     Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, stopped by the KDE stall. We
were hoping to get a quote from him but he was speechless after seeing
how easy it is to create PDFs from any KDE application and how KPDF
seemlessly integrates with Konqueror.

     We were also joined by Rob Taylor who is writing updated GStreamer
bindings for KDE and we discussed the relative merits of KOffice against
KDE integrated OpenOffice with Credativ UK [http://www.credativ.co.uk]
founder and Kubuntu developer Chris Halls.  Danny Allan came by to show
us his monochrome icon theme, now part of KDE Accessibility and a new
recruit was made for Kubuntu when Martin Meredith was persuaded to
become the k3b package maintainer, famous as the program required by
even the most strict of Gnome users.

     Slides from Jonathan's talk
[http://jriddell.org/programs/kubuntu-lugradio-talk-06-2005/] are
available and videos of the days events should be online soon.