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From: Anurag Patel and Pradeepto Bhattacharya <>
Dept: sambar-masala-dosa
Date: Monday03/Dec/2007, @04:13

KDE Project Day at FOSS.IN/2007
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   KDE will be participating at FOSS.IN/2007 [http://foss.in/2007/],
India's premier FOSS event in Bangalore. KDE Project Day is this
Wednesday 5th December. Project Day will have a complete starter course
for eager contributors to jump into KDE. Speakers would showcase various
avenues of contribution to KDE - artwork, documentation, translation,
development, marketing et al, basics of Qt/KDE programming and the
various frameworks as well as the state and future of KDE 4 and more. 
This is the biggest ever representation and splash by KDE on Indian
soil. Read on for details including the new KDE India website.
     [http://static.kdenews.org/jr/foss-in-2007.jpg]
     KDE Project Day schedule is as follows:

    *  Till Adam - The Pillars of KDE 4
     
[http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=548]
    * Pradeepto K Bhattacharya - How to be a part of the gang?
    *  Pradeepto K Bhattacharya - KDE 4 development setup
     
[http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=550]
    *  Kevin Ottens - Qt/KDE Concepts and Frameworks: Overview
     
[http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=269]
    *  Girish Ramakrishnan - Styling Qt Using Style Sheets
     
[http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=484]
    *  Piyush Verma - Kdevelop3/4: Beyond C++...extending the Language
      Base.
     
[http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=247]
    *  Kevin Ottens - Test Driven Development with Qt and KDE
     
[http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=268]
    *  Prashanth N Udupa - Component Software Design/Development
     
[http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=430]

     The conf's complete schedule is available at
http://foss.in/2007/schedules/ [http://foss.in/2007/schedules/]. There
are some more Qt and KDE talks and tutorials by core KDE dudes happening
during the main conference:

    *  Kevin Ottens - KDE/ISI Student Projects
     
[http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=270]
    *  Till Adam - Akonadi - Personal Information Unleashed
     
[http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=275]
    *  Volker Krause - Developing PIM applications with Akonadi
     
[http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=281]
    *  Simon Hausmann - QtWebKit
     
[http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=414]

     Also an old KDE contributor Holger Hans Peter Freyther is speaking
on "Using OpenEmbedded to power Open Devices"
[http://foss.in/2007/register/speakers/talkdetailspub.php?talkid=343]. 
There are plans to have a Qt/KDE hack centre and BoFs sessions as well.

     The local KDE community (KDE India [http://www.kde.in]) team has
been working on various stuff for the KDE Project Day @ FOSS.IN/2007.
We'll have a booth at FOSS.IN. There will be KDE swag like stickers and
posters [http://www.flickr.com/photos/anuragp/sets/72157603248086487/].
All artwork and printing work has been done by local volunteers for the
first time. KDE and KDE-India T-shirts were kindly sponsored by Swati
and Tarique Sani of Sanisoft [http://www.sanisoft.com]. People we expect
to attend the KDE Project day and the conference as a whole range from
young students aspiring to contribute to KDE and FOSS in general to
developers/artists/translators/integrators who are enthusiastic about
the vibrant community. There is a lot of everything for everyone :)

     The gang is planning to have lot of fun at the conference and eat a
lot of awesome local food
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_Karnataka].

     The KDE-India local community became two years old on 2nd December.
It was formed over a KDE BoF in Foss.in/2005 [http://foss.in/2005].
Since then we have reached a long way and there still remain many more
goals to achieve.

     On its second anniversary, KDE India team is proud to announce its
new wikified website: www.kde.in [http://www.kde.in]. The site aims to
showcase Getting Involved tutorials, event participation, regular
interviews of Indian FOSS contributors and personalities, Qt/KDE
application reviews, localisation efforts and much more. If you have
written something about the KDE project, an informative Qt/KDE tutorial
or an interesting review on Qt/KDE application that is free and open
source lately, then this is the time to get them published.