[dot] KDE at CeBIT 2008

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From: Carsten Niehaus, Frederik Gladhorn, Harald Sitter and LydiaPintscher <> on Tuesday 11/Mar/2008, @07:56
Dept: where-is-Mike


KDE at CeBIT 2008
=================

   KDE was present at CeBIT 2008 in Hannover, the world's largest IT
fair. The booth was located inside the LinuxPark in Hall 5, where Linux
New Media had given KDE, Amarok and other open source projects the
opportunity to present their work. Read on for more details.

     On Thursday (when the exhibition started) we occupied booth F52 and
F16. Fortunately, this year our network situation was quite good as all
of our Notebooks had WiFi. We attracted a lot of visitors and it turned
out that the booth was a bit small for us.

     Thanks to our great community the KDE booth was always very well
staffed, both by experienced KDE contributors and our friends in the
Fedora community, but also by users who volunteered and so made their
first-time contributions to the KDE world. It's nice to see such
enthusiastic new contributors coming to KDE!

     We had a lot of interesting chats with visitors. There were very
different groups of visitors. Some of them were experienced KDE users
and maybe we were able to motivate some of them to contribute to KDE
themselves. Then there were also visitors completely new to Linux, we
could show them that nowadays Linux with KDE is a viable (if not even
more powerful) alternative to the commercial offerings. The most asked
questions were "How stable is KDE4?" and "When will Amarok 2 be
released?". For these visitors, we could show some bleeding edge KDE 4
applications and were able to convince many visitors that KDE 4.1 and
Amarok 2 will truly be impressive.

     During the event, members of the KDE projects gave a couple of
talks in the Linux Forum. On Saturday, Franz Keferböck talked about
graphic effects in KDE4 and Sven Krohlas gave an introduction to Amarok,
while on Sunday, Carsten Niehaus and Frederik Gladhorn performed a live
demonstration of KDE4 and its applications.

     Until next year...