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From: Jonathan Riddell <>
Dept: first-note-in-the-musical-scale
Date: Thursday 07/Jun/2007, @04:22

Akademy Keynote Speakers Announced
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   The Akademy 2007 [http://akademy2007.kde.org/] team is pleased to
announce the keynote speakers for this year's conference
[http://akademy2007.kde.org/conference/programme.php].  The opening talk
will be from Lars Knoll of Trolltech who will tell us about their plans
for Qt 4.4 and their relationship with KDE.  Mark Shuttleworth
[http://www.markshuttleworth.com/] of Canonical
[http://www.canonical.com] will be talking on the 10 Challenges to Open
Source.  On Sunday, Dan Kohn of The Linux Foundation
[http://www.linux-foundation.org/] will talk on the state of Linux
Standardisation on the Desktop.  Continuing the week the  Edu and
Schools Day [http://akademy2007.kde.org/codingmarathon/schoolday.php]
will be opened by Sulamita Garcia with a talk on Intel's Classmate PC
[http://www.intel.com/intel/worldahead/classmatepc/].

     Once the talks are over you may be interested in refreshments, so
on Saturday we have at the Chateau [http://www.chateaugateau.co.uk/], an
evening of art, music and food.  On the Monday we will be welcomed by
Glasgow's Lord Provost [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Provost] with
a receiption at the city chambers
[http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/YourCouncil/Council_Committees/CityChambers/].
 The buffet at the reception is provided by our platinum sponsor
Trolltech [http://www.trolltech.com].  As previously announced, on the
Thursday our Day Trip to Loch Lomond
[http://akademy2007.kde.org/codingmarathon/day-trip.php] will have a
barbecue on the beach.

     Remember that while attendance is free, you must register to come
to Akademy [http://www.kde.org.uk/akademy/] (including Edu day and the
Text Summit).