aKademy Team Announces International Lineup

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aKademy Team Announces International Lineup

Posted by michael on Friday July 23, 2004 @10:53AM 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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What, no SCO speakers? by GrueMaster · 2004-07-23 11:00 · Score: 3, Funny

Where's the Darl when you need him?
also for newbies? by toetagger1 · 2004-07-23 11:04 · 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 · 2004-07-23 11:08 · 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 · 2004-07-23 11:09 · 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 · 2004-07-23 12:04 · 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 :-)
See Also - dot.kde.org by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-23 11:10 · 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.
Hackfest by farley13 · 2004-07-23 11:43 · 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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Looking forward to this.... by reality-bytes · 2004-07-23 12:04 · 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 · 2004-07-23 19:04 · 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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cheerleaders by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-23 12:41 · Score: 2, Funny

boothbabes. hot ones. want me to switch, let's see the kde kutie korps. let's see 'em.

might as well have a GOOD reason to do things, I always say.....
Re:Why isn't Microsoft hireing these people? by bluGill · 2004-07-23 13:06 · 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.
Re:Need a scripting language for use with KDE? by pnatural · 2004-07-23 13:42 · Score: 4, Informative

The ruby bindings have a ways to go yet. The kde-bindings list is full of errors and minor bugs wrt ruby.

A better binding is PyKDE -- which is now part of KDE CVS, has lots of testing, full featured, etc.
Re:How long... by afd8856 · 2004-07-23 18:25 · Score: 2, Insightful

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

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More info on the KDE Wiki by PhilRod · 2004-07-23 22:34 · Score: 2, Informative

There's a lot more information about what will be going on at the KDE wiki at http://wiki.kde.org. There are plenty of opportunities to contribute, too - even if you're not a programmer or 'power user'. Take a look, for example at KDE Community World Summit under "Coding Marathon" for a list of teams that will be present.
As an example, I'm on the documentation team, and we've got plenty planned. Check out KDE Documentation @ aKademy for more details.
OK, that's enough advertising for one comment...
PhilRod

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