[dot] Report of Paris Solutions Linux 2005

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From: Charles de Miramon <cmiramon at kde-france.org>
Dept: snow-is-falling-on-Paris
Date: Tuesday01/Mar/2005, @11:15

Report of Paris Solutions Linux 2005
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   Solutions Linux [http://www.solutionslinux.fr/] trade show is the
French annual rendez-vous of Free Software technologies and their
commercial applications. This year, it ran from February 1st to February
3rd. Like preceding years, KDE-France [http://www.kde-france.org/] was
present and benefited of a free booth in the "Associative Village".

     Located at the "desktop crossroad", we were surrounded by  our
friends of GNOME [http://www.gnomefr.org/], OpenOffice.org
[http://fr.openoffice.org/] and Mozilla
[http://www.mozilla-europe.org/fr/]. The  booth crew installed a
computer equipped with a large  screen and during three days, we
demonstrated KDE 3.4  (then in its beta days) which shined as a very
stable  Krokodil. A lot of happy and friendly users came to  have a chat
and a glance at the new features.

In the commercial section of Solutions Linus, many KDE  desktops were on
demonstration especially the corporate  desktop solutions of Novell
[http://www.novell.com/fr-fr/products/desktop/] and Mandrake
[http://www.mandrakesoft.com/business/corporate-desktop]. 2004-2005 was 
also the first year when KDE entered modestly the  French mainstream
computer market. A French multimedia  discounter, Planète Saturn
[http://www.planete-saturn.fr/], in offering in his outlets  a KDE PC
for 299 &#8364;. The French government has also  launched a 1 &#8364; /
day notebook program
[http://www.delegation.internet.gouv.fr/mipe/projet.htm]. A scheme to 
help students buy a notebook by giving some subsidies.  One of the
notebook on the list is running KDE.

On the KDE booth, around 15 developers, translators,  promoters and
passionate users took turns. Watch photos  of us here.
 [http://www.kde-france.org/gallery/solutions_linux_2005]
     KDE and KDE-France [http://www.kde-france.org/] are always looking
for new volunteers. If you are French speaking and interested in
developing, translating, promoting, creating digital art, organising
activities, drop us a mail on our list [kde-francophone at mail.kde.org]
and we will help you find your way in the KDE project. If you have no
time, still consider enlisting
[http://www.kde-france.org/article.php3?id_article=91]  in the
KDE-France association. Your money will be wisely spent.