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aKademy Team Announces International Lineup

Posted by michael on from the free-software-olympics dept.

Telex4 writes "The aKademy Team is proud to announce the schedules for the KDE Community World Summit 2004, code-named 'aKademy', taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany from August 21st to 29th. Featuring speakers from IBM, Novell, SUSE, Conectiva, Trolltech, HP and many community hackers and activists, it promises to be a highlight of the Free Software calendar. With presentations both for developers and users, tutorials from the experts in their field, and plenty of opportunities to discuss significant issues like usability and Qt4/KDE4, you can't afford to miss it. For more information, you can read the full announcement. Go to the conference web site and register now to avoid disappointment!"

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  1. Hackfest by farley13 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Here's hoping KDE is actually better after the http://conference2004.kde.org/hackfest.php !

    That sounds like a good lotta fun! I wonder how many of the core dev. will be coding away ?

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  2. Re:Why isn't Microsoft hireing these people? by bluGill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some of them have a good job. Most people I know are not willing to pick up their family and move to washington when they already have a job that pays enough. Remember, that means the wife (sadly female programmers are rare enough that I don't count them) needs to quit her job too. that means leaving the grand parents, and friends behind.

    If MS had offered me a job 6 months ago when I was looking I would have been forced to re-consider. Now however I'm making enough money. I'll take a new job around home for little more than I'm making, if it is otherwise good. Even around home though I'm making enough that I can afford to tell MS I don't want your job. Course if they offered me a couple million a year I'd work for them, but 3 years latter I'd be retired, and working on KDE again for the fun of it, so MS wouldn't gain anything. (actually they'd loose, right now I don't have the energy to program after work....)

    My experiences are not the same as everyone else, but some of the above applies to most people.

  3. Re:How long... by afd8856 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it really OK to bad-mouth some very fine open source projects? (in your signature)

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