Events
Four keynotes confirmed for Gran Canaria
Sat, 2009-06-13 00:43 — adminFour keynote speakers have been confirmed as speaking at the upcoming Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, the joint KDE and GNOME developers' conference: Richard Stallman (FSF), Walter Bender of Sugar Labs, Robert Lefkowitz (distinguished engineer of the ACM) and Jakub Pavelek of Nokia.
Qt Software and Maemo to sponsor desktop summit
Tue, 2009-06-09 15:03 — adminaKademy 2009: Call for papers
Tue, 2009-03-17 15:53 — adminThis year's aKademy, the conference for KDE developers, is being held in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, from 3rd to 11th of July, jointly with the Guadec conference for GNOME developers as part of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. A call for papers has been issued, and there is to be a focus on beauty, portability and functionality. Talks should be either 30 minutes on a KDE topic or a cross-desktop topic, a technical paper with a 30-minute KDE presentation, or a 5-minute lightning talk. Submissions to akademy-talks@kde, org.
Call for KDE FOSDEM speakers
Mon, 2009-01-05 17:43 — adminKDE are looking for speakers to give presentations at FOSDEM, the European gathering of free and open source developers which is to be held in Belgium in February (7-8th Feb 2009). The KDE team will share a room with the GNOME and XFCE developers on Sunday and are interested talk which "transcend free desktops in general". Contact Bart Coppens if you are interested.
Camp KDE 2009 presentations announced; Kitware joined sponsors
Tue, 2008-12-02 03:24 — adminDetails of the presentations to be given at the Camp KDE event in Jamaica (17-18th Jan 2009) have been announced, following the request for proposals at the start of November. The talks, in no order, are:
- Pradeepto Bhattacharya: KDE and Global Culuture
- Kenneth Christiansen: Declarative user interfaces, using Qt and QEdje
- Marcus Hanwell and Gökmen Göksel: KDE and distros
- Eugene Trounev: KDE Games and graphics
- Holger Schroeder: KDE and Windows
- Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas: KDE and Business Software
- Jeff Mitchell: Why Enterprises Should Hire Open-Source Programmers
- Soren Howard: Amarok 2 and automatic playlist generation
- Sebastian Kugler: Plasma and small formfactor devices
- Till Adam: Akonadi
- Orville Bennett: KDE and Mac
- Bill Hoffman: CMake
- Zack Rusin: Accelerating Graphics
- Leo Franchi: Amarok 2 and use of libplasma in applications
Schedule will be published on the Camp KDE website; there will be BOF (birds of a feather) sessions on the 19th and 20th.
Also, it has been announced that Kitware, best known as the developers of CMake, has co-sponsored the event, joining Google, iXsystems and KDE e.V.
Registration opens for 2008 Developer Days
Sun, 2008-08-17 22:56 — adminTrolltech has opened registration for the 2008 Developer Days, with special "early bird" pricing available until 15th September. For the Munich event (13th-14th Oct), it costs €399 for early registration, or else €599; for the Redwood City, California event (29th-30th Oct), it costs $399 or $599 respectively. Pre-course Qt training costs €250 in Munich or $299 in Redwood. The agenda can be found here, with particular pages for the technical track and business tracks. The agenda includes presentations from Ariya Hidayat on WebKit and Qt graphics, Thiago Macieira on threading and on networking, Volker Hilsheimer on "Qt internals", and keynotes from Charles Davies of Symbian (in Munich) and Benoit Schillings (in both).
Akademy: Qt 4.5 graphics & web improvements announced
Mon, 2008-08-11 16:01 — adminImprovements to the graphics classes and WebKit module for Qt 4.5 has been announced at Akademy. A web view was demonstrated which could display OGG video content with one HTML 5 video tag; the classes use the Phonon multimedia back-end and animations will be possible using CSS. The new graphics canvas classes are up to 40 times faster than in Qt 4.4, featuring a new animations API, effects like blur, bloom, shadow and opacity for items on the GraphicsView, transition animations in user interfaces, and optimisations in painting operations. Qt 4.5 is expected in late 2008 or early 2009.
Trolltech Developer Days announced
Sat, 2008-07-26 03:00 — adminThe Trolltech website has announced this year's Developer Days, registration for which will open next month. The dates are:
- Munich (Germany): 14th-15th Oct 2008 (Tues-Weds), Hilton Munich Park, Am Tucherpark 7, 80538 Munich
- Redwood City, CA (USA):** 28th-29th Oct 2008 (Tues-Weds), Sofitel San Francisco Bay, 223 Twin Dolphin Drive, 94065 Redwood City, CA.
Full agenda and conference fees are to appear in August.
Akademy and GUADEC 2009 to be in Gran Canaria
Sun, 2008-07-13 15:04 — adminThe conferences for both KDE and GNOME, Akademy and GUADEC, are to be held in Gran Canaria (off Spain) in 2009, and hosted by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria (its tourist authority). Both events are expected to be held at the Alfredo Kraus auditorium and the adjacent Congress Palace in Las Palmas, from Friday 3rd to July 11th 2009. Gran Canaria was chosen because of its "position as Port to Africa and the excellent circumstances for holding such an event there"; it trumped bids from Tampere, Finland, and A/La Coruña, Galicia (Spain).
Akademy 2008 talks programme published
Thu, 2008-07-03 22:53 — adminThe talks programme for Akademy 2008 (De Nayer Institute, St. Katelijne Waver, Belgium, 9-15 Aug 2008) has been published. It can be found here; the two days of talks and BOF (birds of a feather) sessions includes keynotes on KDE websites, collaboration between KDE and Qt and "Digital Audio to Reduce Illiteracy, Poverty and Disease".
