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KDE Contributor Conference 2003 "Kastle" Report

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. Welcome... by s20451 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Welcome to the KDE Kontributor Konference!

    KKK? That's not good ...

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    1. Re:Welcome... by cioxx · · Score: 3, Funny

      In fact, not far off. Notice the Nazi helmet

    2. Re:Welcome... by digitalunity · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You fucking troll. Do some research.

      On Trolltech's website, they plainly state that SCO Group(technically, it's the Canopy Group) holds 1.6% of Trolltech. The employees quite obviously have a controlling interest in the company.

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  2. Conference Schedule by chundo · · Score: 3, Funny

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

    -j

  3. Group photo. by saintlupus · · 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

  4. the dude on the left by mrgreenfur · · Score: 3, Funny

    you just know he's thinging "whoa, there's a girl here. how'd she get in?!?! *stares*"

  5. window.status ? by CaptainBaz · · Score: 4, Informative

    Blockquoth the poster...

    obligatory group photo (use mouse pointer and look at the status bar to see the names!)

    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.

  6. That group photo is a fake! by Snosty · · 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 gowen · · Score: 5, Funny
      You went through the photo looking for chicks?
      Actually, they probably call themselves Khicks...
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    2. Re:That group photo is a fake! by jooon · · Score: 3, Funny

      three girls, and a guy wearing a skirt. That's a Kilt. I guess you see the pattern. :)

  7. This is great! by Vann_v2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  8. OO.o format by Daengbo · · Score: 4, Informative
    File format
    We will switch to the OASIS (OpenOffice.org) file format for all the major applications. This has many advantages:
    • file format shared with the OpenOffice.org suite, we don't have to reinvent the wheel
    • we'll be able to drop our OOo import filters and use the export filters as a compatibility layer for older KOffice versions documents
    • we can actively participate in the standard file format creation in the the case of Kexi and Kugar which are applications that don't currently exist in OOo
    I can't believe how awesome this is. As they say, koffice users can now swap files with OO.o users on Windows. I somehow wonder how they will get the frame orinted approach in koffice to save well in the OpenOffice format, but I am all for the interoperability this will offer.
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  9. Re:Stop with the stupid Ks... by richie2000 · · 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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  10. Here is a XHTML compliant version by zerodeux · · Score: 3, Informative

    Quickly sed'ed for correctness : http://mksp.zerodeux.net/contributors.html.

  11. Not everyone minds the Kisms by nurb432 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  12. KDE Developers Anonymous by ThyTurkeyIsDone · · 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...

  13. KDE-3.2 release cycle starts today ! by InodoroPereyra · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.)

  14. Re:Stop with the stupid Ks... by rking · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.