KDE Contributor Conference 2003 "Kastle" Report

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KDE Contributor Conference 2003 "Kastle" Report

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 1, 2003 @03:38AM from the read-all-about-it dept.

Last weekend the KDE Contributor Conference 2003 in Nove Hrady ("Kastle") ended. There's a conference report, all slides and papers have been published, and there are lots of photos including the obligatory group photo (use mouse pointer and look at the status bar to see the names!). Also part of kastle were the KOffice Developers' Meeting and the presentation of Qt 4.

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Welcome... by s20451 · 2003-09-01 03:39 · Score: 5, Funny

Welcome to the KDE Kontributor Konference!

KKK? That's not good ...

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1. Re:Welcome... by cioxx · 2003-09-01 03:58 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  In fact, not far off. Notice the Nazi helmet
Conference Schedule by chundo · 2003-09-01 03:45 · Score: 3, Funny

8:00 am: Session 1: Why can't we get past using the letter K?

-j
1. Re:Conference Schedule by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-01 04:04 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  It's their businessmodel.
  
  1) Do free stuff.
  2) ?
  3) Kall Keverything Ksomething.
  4) Profit!
Group photo. by saintlupus · 2003-09-01 03:47 · Score: 3, Funny

and there are lots of photos including the obligatory group photo

Wow, look at all the chicks.

*crickets*

So I suppose becoming an Open Source developer isn't going to get me lots of hot action, huh?

--saint
the dude on the left by mrgreenfur · 2003-09-01 03:48 · Score: 3, Funny

you just know he's thinging "whoa, there's a girl here. how'd she get in?!?! *stares*"
That group photo is a fake! by Snosty · 2003-09-01 03:50 · Score: 5, Funny

There are two women in that group photo. Clearly it is a fake designed to psychologically manipulate us into supporting KDE over Gnome.

Damn it, I think it's working.
1. Re:That group photo is a fake! by blancolioni · 2003-09-01 03:59 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  You went through the photo looking for chicks? You really have to get out of the house more.
2. Re:That group photo is a fake! by gowen · 2003-09-01 04:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You went through the photo looking for chicks?
  Actually, they probably call themselves Khicks...
  
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3. Re:That group photo is a fake! by nbarr · 2003-09-01 04:05 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  three girls, and a guy wearing a skirt. look better.
  
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4. Re:That group photo is a fake! by jooon · 2003-09-01 04:09 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  three girls, and a guy wearing a skirt. That's a Kilt. I guess you see the pattern. :)
5. Re:That group photo is a fake! by Rhone · 2003-09-01 07:39 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  See the KDE Women page for more psychological manipulation.
Re:Stop with the stupid Ks... by richie2000 · 2003-09-01 04:30 · Score: 3, Funny

"KDE" stands for "Kool Desktop Environment".
Um, no it doesn't.
The K in KDE does not stand for anything. It is the character that comes before L in the Latin alphabet, which stands for Linux. It was chosen because KDE runs on many types of UNIX (and perfectly well on FreeBSD). "
OTOH, putting the name of a seriously debilitating illness in front of all program names is OK? I guess it's fitting that billg talked about the Digital Nervous System a few year's back... MS is a disease.

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KDE Developers Anonymous by ThyTurkeyIsDone · 2003-09-01 04:52 · Score: 5, Funny

Hello group, my name is Klark... As is the kase with many of you, I love komputers and was about to embark on a kareer in the field of information and kommunikation teknology... but my troubles started when I got into KDE development... it wasn't really konspikuous at first when I started to spell everything with a k, sometimes even with a kapital K, but soon my kolleagues began to wonder whether I kouldn't spell... they asked me, "Are you on krack? Kut the krap!"... some even went as far as kalling me kompletely krazy! What kould I do? I must admit, I'm a kolerik person, kwick-tempered as you might say... sometimes I got inkredibly angry, and I kussed and kursed at my ko-workers... People should judge me by the kontent of my karakter instead of just kriticizing my kurious spelling! However, when I was sacked for being unkooperative, I developed an inferiority komplex and finally realized I had to kome to terms with my problem... so here I am, this is my koming-out... I know my kase is a komplex one, but I do hope it is kurable...