[dot] KDE Displays at SCALE 6x Expo

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1203380148/

From: Aaron Johnson <aaronforjesus at gmail.com>
Dept: booth-duty-or-bust
Date: Monday 18/Feb/2008, @16:15

KDE Displays at SCALE 6x Expo
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   To Southern Californians February means several things. Winter storms
bring snow to the San Gabriel Mountains. Most college students will have
returned to school for another semester. Early flowering plants have
started to bud and bloom, attracting bees. Most important of all
however, is the coming of SCALE, the annual Southern California Linux
Expo.
    Aaron Johnson, Celeste Lyn Paul, and Mike Elliott representing KDE
at SCALE 6x
     From February 8th to the 10th, Linux enthusiasts from the greater
Los Angeles area (and beyond that!) converged at the Westin Hotel near
Los Angeles Airport to celebrate Linux and Free Software. KDE was once
again there showing attendees the best Free Software desktop. Starting
things off, one of KDE's usability helpers Celeste Paul gave a talk on A
Quick and Dirty Intro to User ­Centred Design in Open Source Development
[http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/conference-info/speakers/Celeste-Lyn-Paul/].


     In the mean while, two KDE desktops were demonstrated at the KDE
booth. The fully featured, reliable and well supported KDE 3.5 was shown
to many of those stopping by the stall.  What most folk were interested
in, though, was the newly released KDE 4.0. Despite being run on a Via
C3 laptop with only 256 MB of RAM (minus 32MB for the onboard video
chip), so no KWin effects, many people were impressed. After being
impressed by the features of KDE 4, many said that they would try it out
after the release of KDE 4.1 (which we recommended as the one for
average users, rather than early adopters). Others were helped in
getting CDs to try out the current KDE 3.5. Just like the past several
years, everyone had a great time, and plans are already being made for
KDE to return next year.