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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!"

8 of 83 comments (clear)

  1. also for newbies? by toetagger1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is this an event that could potentially be used to bring my friends who I want to convince to switch to Linux, of is this only for hardcore users?

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    1. Re:also for newbies? by ErichTheWebGuy · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It's for anyone who wishes to attend. From the conference website:

      Who is it for?

      The event is of high interest for

      * all active KDE contributors: programmers, artists, documentation writers, translators, promotors and other supporters,
      * most KDE power users,
      * as well the general public interested in Linux and Unix desktop systems.

      All of them will find many very interesting topics covered here. They are all invited to come, attend and participate in our discussions and work.

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    2. Re:also for newbies? by NetNifty · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Sounds like it from : "Tutorials and trainings by experienced instructors" and: "Who is it for? The event is of high interest for * all active KDE contributors: programmers, artists, documentation writers, translators, promotors and other supporters, * most KDE power users, * as well the general public interested in Linux and Unix desktop systems."

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    3. Re:also for newbies? by Homology · · Score: 2, Interesting
      Is this an event that could potentially be used to bring my friends who I want to convince to switch to Linux, of is this only for hardcore users?

      KDE runs just fine on *BSD as well. In fact, I'm using KDE on OpenBSD. Just in case you are considering other free alternatives to Linux :-)

  2. See Also - dot.kde.org by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Trolltech and the KDE E.v have announced a supplemental agreement to the KDE Free Qt Foundation. Might this fortell some maneuvers behind an upcomping Trolltech corporate purchase or merger? OTOH, perhaps this is only to reassert the agreement given Qt4's reengineered library structure (the new library will have core and utility classes split out from GUI classes), but some of the language could be interpreted as relieving fears of a would-be Trolltech corporate suitor. Stay tuned. It should be a very exciting summer/early fall for KDE and Trolltech.

  3. Looking forward to this.... by reality-bytes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We've been gradually weening a few customers from Exchange etc over the last few months and continued development of Kontact/Kolab/OpenGroupware only helps us.

    We get a real feeling of 'security' with open-souce groupware; we know where we stand and can get support/patches in a hurry if we know which buttons to press. In emergencies, we can even sub-contract developers to make patches for us!

    The only thing that suprises me is that open-source groupware hasn't come further than it has in recent years.

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    1. Re:Looking forward to this.... by reality-bytes · · Score: 2, Interesting

      In terms of Outlook users, we found little by way of user resistance, in some cases it was like we slipped it into the customers drink (the ease with which we migrated people).

      Unfortunately, things are not so easy when it comes to Office and Productivity suites. There are still little quirks of some software that *some* users will not let go of.

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  4. Need a scripting language for use with KDE? by tcopeland · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Try Ruby with the Korundum bindings - example code is here.

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