[Kde-events] Hey dude, what's that, KDE? Some random notes about CeBit.

[Carsten Niehaus]

Am Montag, 10. März 2008 19:08:08 schrieb Jonathan Riddell:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 06:40:55PM +0100, Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> > Hello Events :)
> >
> > I'm still rather new to KDE as devel, so don't shoot me yet, but I
> > thought I could share some experiences made during my four days of CeBit.
> > I don't know how much of this has been discussed so far, and don't want
> > to point fingers. I'd just like to improve the experience for both -
> > visitors and us staying at the booth.
>
> Is anyone down to do the Dot News article?

I took Alex's article about CeBIT 2007 and updated it. That means I removed 
not fitting parts and wrote some new lines. 

This is of course suboptimal but all I can provide.

Eike, Frederik et al: Would you be so kind and add a couple of lines?

Harald: You have photos for the dot. Could you select a couple of nice ones?


Carsten
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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 us and other open source projects the opportunity to present their work. 
 
On Thursday, when the exhibition started we occupied booth F52. 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 Fedora community, but also by users who volunteered and by that did 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. I guess the most asked question was "How stable is KDE4?". For these visitors we could show some bleeding edge KDE 4 applications and were able to convince many visitors that KDE 4.1 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 while on Sunday, Carsten Niehaus and Frederik Gladhorn did a live demonstation of KDE4 and its applications. 
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