[dot] Akademy 2006 Sponsors

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From: Jonathan Riddell <>
Dept: big-names
Date: Monday 21/Aug/2006, @00:20

Akademy 2006 Sponsors
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   Akademy 2006 has announced the sponsor's list
[http://conference2006.kde.org/sponsors/] for KDE's World Summit.  This
is one of the our most impressive list of sponsors to date.  Our Gold
sponsors are the home of Linus Torvalds OSDL [http://www.osdl.org] and
the KDE based distribution Kubuntu [http://www.kubuntu.org].  Housing
the conference as our host institution is The School of Computer Science
at Trinity College Dublin.  Read on for the full list.

     Silver sponsors of aKademy 2006 are computer and graphic chip
makers Intel [http://www.intel.com], Qt developers Klarälvdalens
Datakonsult [http://www.kdab.net] also known as KDAB, NLNet
[http://www.nlnet.nl] the Dutch open source foundation, Trolltech
[http://www.trolltech.com] makers of the worlds best application
framework (and sponsor of the KDE Four Core
[http://dot.kde.org/1151271635/] meeting) and user friendly distribution
Xandros.
 [http://www.xandros.com]
     Our bronze sponsors are Enterprise Ireland
[http://www.enterprise-ireland.com] the Irish state development agency,
Google [http://www.google.com] the leading internet search engine, KDE
and Qt consultants Staikos Computing Services [http://www.staikos.net/]
and Novell [http://www.novell.com/] creators of openSUSE and the SUSE
Enterprise line (another recent sponsor of KDE Four Core).
 [http://dot.kde.org/1151271635/]
     We will also have free Wifi provided by Bitbuzz
[http://www.bitbuzz.com], Linux Magazine [http://www.linux-magazine.com]
provide invaluable support as our Premier Media Partner while our other
Media Partners are tech book company extraordinaire O'Reilly
[http://www.oreilly.com] and RealNetworks [http://www.realnetworks.com]
creators of The Helix Community.

     Many thanks to all our sponsors and to Tink who has done amazing
work in coordinating with these companies.  We still expect a few more
names to be added to the list and it is not too late if you want to
sponsor Akademy 2006.
 [http://conference2006.kde.org/sponsors/akademy-sponsor-call.pdf]