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Akademy 2010: call for papers

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A call for papers has been issued regarding the upcoming Akademy KDE community conference which is to be held in Tampere, Finland, from 3rd to 10th July. The themes for this event are to be KDE beyond the Linux desktop (netbooks, mobile phones etc) and integration with social networking systems like Facebook and Twitter/identi.ca, but talks on other KDE-related topics are welcome.

KDE looking for helpers at S.CA Linux expo

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KDE is looking for helpers to be behind the stall at SCALE 8x (Southern California Linux Expo, at the Westin hotel near LAX, 20-21 Feb 2010); they should be users of KDE apps like KOffice, Amarok or the Plasma workspace. Volunteers get free admission. See the link for contact details.

Speakers wanted for FOSDEM 2010

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Camp KDE story contest open

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Camp KDE 2010: presentations deadline set

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The deadline for requesting to give a presentation/talk at Camp KDE 2010 (University of California, San Diego, 15-22nd Jan 2010) has been set for 0:00 on December 5th. If you want to give a presentation, then indictate this when registering.

Four keynotes confirmed for Gran Canaria

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Four 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.

aKademy 2009: Call for papers

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This 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

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KDE 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

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Details 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.

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