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KDE Contributor Conference 2003 "Kastle" Report
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.
Welcome to the KDE Kontributor Konference!
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KKK? That's not good
Toronto-area transit rider? Rate your ride.
8:00 am: Session 1: Why can't we get past using the letter K?
-j
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
you just know he's thinging "whoa, there's a girl here. how'd she get in?!?! *stares*"
Blockquoth the poster...
But only in Internet Explorer, it would seem. Certainly not in Mozilla Firebird. It beggars belief that people who are trying to convince the world of the virtues of alternative and open systems can't even code cross-browser [d]HTML.
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.
I read the KOffice Developers' Meeting page and it says that they'll be switching to OpenOffice.org's file format for all major applications. As someone who occasionaly uses both OpenOffice.org and KOffice this is great news, and will also provide an easy way to translate between current KOffice formats and OpenOffice.org. Maybe we have on our hands a new, truly cross-platform file format.
Thank you.. thats a really good point.
Try to convince your boss that you should ditch the number #1 OS in the world with the #1 office suite in the world for a product called "GNU/Linux" that runs a desktop called "KDE" and an office suite called "KOffice" with tools like "KWord", "KPresenter", etc etc.
It gets silly when they ask what the things stand for. "KDE" stands for "Kool Desktop Environment". "GNU" stands for "GNU is Not Unix". Seriously. I've been made to look like a retard because of these silly names.
Say what you will about MS, but their names are at least bland and corporate friendly.
Put identity in the browser.
I keep upto date with KDE from CVS (using Gentoo's excellent KDE CVS ebuilds) and noted, along with the large number of changes, that in the last week or so the default splash screen has been changed to the group photo. :)
It's nice an' all, but could we have it changed back please?
Just like the 2 guys on the left I was also like "whoa, there's a girl here. how'd she get in?!?! *stares*" (mrgreenfur).
Kudos to the KDE Developers too, some good work going on.
Um, no it doesn't.
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.Money for nothing, pix for free
Quickly sed'ed for correctness : http://mksp.zerodeux.net/contributors.html.
True its often over done, but at its root it makes a LOT of sense.
If its prefixed with K, you pretty much can guess its integrated with KDE..
Don't forget, G goes with Gnome.. I don't see people bitching about that, and its just as effective/silly/etc.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
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...
A great way to capitalize all the discussions at the Kastle: the devs are starting the 3.2 release cycle now . The integration of PIM stuff in 3.2 will make for a complete, extremely consistent desktop environment (except for KOffice that will need onesome extra time to mature, incorporate the OpenOffice filters, etc.)
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).
It is true, or at least reasonably true, to say that the K doesn't stand for anything now. Claiming that it was chosen for any reason other than because KDE was originally called the Kool Desktop Environment is not true.
Seriously, they started with a bad name. They very sensibly ditched it. No need to go on about it but no reason to pretend it never happened either.
I suspect your post was moderated as a troll because the complaint you made already gets made several times in every vaguely KDE-related thread. It's getting old.
The continued, annoying repetition makes the "I'm sick of all the K's!" posts feel like trolls even when they aren't meant that way.