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Trolltech 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).

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From KDE Dot News:

Improvements 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.

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The 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.

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From KDE Dot News:

The 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).

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From KDE Dot News:

The 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".

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From KDE Dot News:

Registration for Akademy 2008, the KDE developers' summit, is now open. For anyone who wants their accommodation arranged for them, the deadline is 15th June. The event is to be held at the De Nayer Institute in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium, from Friday 8th to Friday 15th June.

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From KDE Dot News:

The KDE project will be attending this year's LinuxTag in Berlin (info in English here). Speeches in English will include such topics as "Desktop interfaces in a mobile Web 2.0 world" by Aaron Seigo, what's new in KDE 4 by Sebastian Kugler, and Akonadi by Till Adam; talks in German will be on Kontact, Nepomuk, usability, KOffice 2, multimedia, Amarok and KDE 4 on OpenSUSE.

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Akademy 2008 - Call for Presentations

Kevin Ottens has posted a reminder (via Planet KDE) that the deadline for papers for Akademy 2008 is 1st May, i.e. this Thursday. Information as to what sort of presentations are welcome can be found here. Submissions should contain a 150-word abstract, a short biography (up to 100 words) and a picture (250x250px max).

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UKUUG (not-an-acronym of UK Unix Users' Group) is holding a talk on OpenMoko, the operating system commonly used on the Neo1973 device as a basis for open-source development for Qtopia-based phones, at UCL this Wednesday coming (9th April), at 1830 BST (for approx 2 hours) in Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1 (map here). The speaker is Ole Tange, a former Hostmaster for .dk and currently a software developer who has worked with Unix since 1991 and with GNU/Linux since 1992. More details at UKUUG here.

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From KDE Dot News:

Talks are being sought for a joint session with GNOME developers at FOSDEM 2008 (ULB Campus Solbosh, Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, no. 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium). Talks should be about issues which transcend free desktops rather than KDE-specific ones; see last year's KDE and Cross-desktop talks for a guide. See the KDE Wiki page for accommodation details, and add yourself to the page or contact Bart Coppens if you want to give a talk.

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From KDE Dot News:

The winners of the contest to answer why one should get free admission to the KDE 4 release event (Mountain View, CA, 17-19 Jan 2008) have been announced. They are Aron Stansvik, a bookseller from Örebro, Sweden, and Kyle Cunningham, a computer science student at the University of Minnesota, and a KDE and Drupal contributor. Both will be speaking at the conference, and the content of their entries will be revealed then.

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From KDE Dot News:

The Spanish KDE conference, Akademy-es, is to be held in Zaragoza next weekend (17th and 18th Nov). Location details are here and the programme, including talks on CMake, KOffice and ODF and Semantik on Saturday, here. On Sunday, there will be a demonstration of KDE 4 with an "interactive and participatory session".

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Q: What are you doing exactly 3 months from today? « Komandeering Developers Everywhere

Wade Olson (via Planet KDE) announces that the KDE 4 release party (17-19 Jan 2008) at the Google campus in Mountain View, CA, is now open to all now that the core invitees are confirmed; anyone who can and wants to come should email Wade and Troy Unrau at release-event[at]kde.org (spaces are limited). Meals, accommodation and visa assistance is provided, but travel costs are not covered. The contest to answer why should you go to the event is still open until midnight on 21st October (answer at the same email address).

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From KDE Dot News:

The KDE project have published details of the release event for KDE 4: it will be at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA, on 17th to 19th January 2008. Besides key KDE developers, around 200 people from the media, the IT industry, Linux distros and various open-source projects have been invited. There are to be talks from international KDE hackers and the major talks and keynotes will be available live on the Internet through Fluendo.

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From KDE Dot News:

The KDE developers' conference Akademy is to be held next year at the De Nayer Institute, outside Mechelen in Belgium. The conference is to run from Fri 8th to Sat 16th August 2008. As usual, the event will consist of the conference, the KDE e.V. general assembly, five days of tutorials, workshops and BoF sessions, and a six-day coding marathon to run at the same time as the KDE e.V. meeting and tutorials.

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Trolltech Developer Days 2007 — Trolltech

Trolltech has extended the deadline for the "early bird" registration scheme for its Developer Days in October. Anyone who registers before 14th Sept will save $200 off the price of the Redwood City, CA, event, or E200 for the Munich event (reducing them to $399 or E399 respectively). The events themselves are to take place in California on 3rd and 4th of October and in Munich on the 16th and 17th.

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FrOSCon is due to start this weekend, and the KDE people will have their own room and give several talks. The KDE room will be shared with developers from Amarok and Kubuntu DE. There will be talks on Marble, Amarok 2, Kubuntu in Germany and in the main track one on KDE 4. If you are in the Bonn area, drop by Sankt Augustin this weekend and meet the developers and community.

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The LugRadio people have released Ogg Theora videos of presentations recently given at their LugRadio Live event in Wolverhampton. Among them is one by Ben Lamb, entitled Konquering the Desktop with KDE 4. (38Mb download, runtime 33:15.) Alan Cox (Red Hat), Chris DiBona (Google), Nat Friedman (Novell), and many others, also have talks among those videos.

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From KDE Dot News:

The keynote speakers for the upcoming aKademy gathering of KDE hackers in Glasgow (Dep't of Computer Sciences, Uni. of Strathclyde, 30th June to 7th July) have been announced. They are:

• Lars Knoll of Trolltech, talking about plans for Qt 4.4 and their relationship with KDE
• Mark Shuttleworth, talking about "10 Challenges to Open Source"
• Dan Kohn of the Linux Foundation, talking about the state of desktop Linux standardisation
• Sulamita Garcia on Intel's Classmate PC.

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From KDE Dot News:

The deadline for registration and payment for accommodation at aKademy is this coming Monday for anyone who wants the team to arrange accommodation for them (register here). The Thursday of the event will be spent away from the computers at Loch Lomond.

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You Need a Passport to get to the British Isles | www.kdedevelopers.org

Jonathan Riddell with a timely warning for anyone who wants to attend the conferences which are taking place in the UK this year, among them Debconf, Akademy, Guadec and Python UK: you need a passport or national identity card to enter the UK, and this includes EU citizens. You cannot enter (or leave, if they check) the UK with a photo driving licence, for example, and the UK is not a signatory to the Schengen agreement, which allows passport-free movement within the area.

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From KDE Dot News:

A joint KDE-Gnome meeting is to take place in Spain (Faculty of Computer Science, A Coruña, 23-25 March) with a KDE 4 update from Aaron Seigo and Albert Astals Cid will talk about Okular.

Also, at FOSS MEET at NIT Calicut (I can't access the site to get the date, but I presume this is in what is now Kozhikode, Kerala), Pradeepto Bhattacharya of KDE India will talk about KDE 4 and why you should develop with Qt.

KDN also have a report on KDE's presentations at SCALE 5x in LA earlier this month.

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From KDE Dot News:

There is to be a KDE booth at OpenMind 2007, a Free Software and content event, in San Giorgio a Cremano in Naples, Italy from this Thursday to this Friday. Giovanni Venturi, KDE Italia webmaster, KDE Italian translator and KSniffer developer will present KDE 3.5 and will give an update on the state of KDE 4 and Qt 4 on Saturday.

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From Adriaan De Groot's blog, via Planet KDE:

The submission deadline for aKademy 2007 has been extended, due to a systems failure yesterday which left people unable to make submissions. The new deadline is Friday 23rd Feb.

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From KDE Dot News (by Jonathan Riddell):

The organisers of Akademy 2007 have put out a Call for Sponsorship. Akademy is the KDE World Summit, this year taking place in Glasgow at the end of June. Sponsorship is an opportunity to promote your company or product to the developers, users, deployers and consultants who will attend the conference. It will also provide a marketing avenue for your company to the thousands who read our website and publications. Most importantly, it gives vital support which ensures that hundreds of KDE contributors can meet together to plan the future of the free desktop. If your company would like to sponsor Akademy contact us at akademy-sponsoring@kde.org. If you know any companies in your local area who could also be potential Akademy sponsors please let us know too.

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From KDE Dot News:

The KDE project are to have a room at the upcoming FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, ULB campus Solbosh, Brussels, 24-5 Feb 2007) and are looking for KDE contributors to give talks about the projects they are working on. They are also looking for people to man their (always busy) stall. Sign up at the KDE-FOSDEM wiki page. X.Org are also to have a significant presence at the event this year.

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From KDE Dot News:

The next aKademy conference for KDE contributors will be held next June and July at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. It will be organised by a local team headed by Kenny Duffus; the schedule is as follows:

• 29th June (Fri): Arrival
• 30th June & 1st July: Contributors' conference
• 2nd July: KDE e.V. Membership Meeting (for members only)
• 3rd - 7th July: Hacking sessions & workshops
• 8th July: departure

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LinuxWorld Conference & Expo - London Olympia 2

The KDE booth at the upcoming Linux World Conference & Expo, to be held at the Olympia on 25-26 October this year, needs people to man it, according to George Wright (via Planet KDE). Anyone who can volunteer should add their names to the KDE UK Wiki.

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Trolltech has opened registration for this October's Developer Days, which are to take place in Munich on the 11th and 12th and San Jose, CA, on the 26th and 27th. Keynote speakers are to be Jose Carlos Arcas of Siemens AG Automation and Drives EA in Munich and Bjarne Stroustrup, inventer of C++, in San Jose. Preliminary agenda here, fees (which will rise in September) here, registration here.

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From KDE Dot News:

The KDE people are looking for volunteers to help out at their stall at the LinuxWorld Expo at the Olympia 2 conference hall, 25-26 Oct this year. They hope to have a bigger presence, demonstrating KDE 4 progress and the efforts made at aKademy 2006. Anyone interested should contact the kde-gb list.

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The schedule for LugRadio Live 2006 has been published, and it includes a half-hour presentation by Jonathan Riddell on KDE 4 and Ubuntu Dapper on Sunday 23rd July. The event itself is to be held at the Wolverhampton University Student Union on Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton (England) (travel details here), on Sat 22nd and Sun 23rd July. Tickets £5 (£3 concessions; in advance on home page by PayPal or full price by cash at the door). Other speakers include Sarah Ewen (Sony; PlayStation), Michael Lamb (Microsoft; Security), Michael Meeks and Ted Haegar (Novell), Simon Phipps (Sun; "The Zen of Free"), Mark Shuttleworth and Scott James Remnant (Canonical/Ubuntu), Martin Vogel and Bill Thompson (BBC), Ian Lynch (ODF), Gareth Bowker (FSF; on GPL3), Bastian Nocera (Red Hat) and Richard Moore (IBM). There is also to be a live recording of a LugRadio show (don't come just to hear this; last year's had very little on-topic content).

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From KDE Dot News:

A write-up of the talk by Mark Shuttleworth (Canonical / Ubuntu) to the recent LinuxTag in Wiesbaden, Germany, on the proposed improvements to the KDE desktop in Ubuntu; this includes shipping free CDs of Kubuntu as well as of the GNOME-based Ubuntu. It was also announced that Canonical is to hire people "from the KDE world" to work on K/Ubuntu.

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KDE are on stall 937a at the LinuxTag in Wiesbaden, Germany (near Frankfurt am Main), where they will be showing off the developments for KDE 4, plus what's new in KDE 3.5 and KOffice 1.5. Other KDE-related activities include talks by Ariya Hidayat on plans for KDE 4 and Daniel Molkentin on Qt 4. For more details see KDE Dot News.

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From KDE Apps:

The annual KDE world summit, Akademy, will be held at Trinity College in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, from 23rd to 30th September. The event will consist of a contributors' conference, the KDE e.V. AGM, and a five-day hacking session with workshops (26th-30th). The conference will be organised by Marcus Furlong who has organised a GUADEC in Dublin in the past and "contributes to KDE by taking a sh*tload of work on him".

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Trolltech announces that it is to be present at VON Spring 2006, at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. Their booth is #115; Benoit Schillings, their CTO, will participate in the Open Source Panel: Open Source Service Provider Solutions, March 14, 4 pm.

VON Spring 2006

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Trolltech has announced that its developer Matthias Ettrich is to host a web seminar on the topic "Overcoming the Challenges of Cross-Platform, Rich Client Development". Ettrich is to discuss "strategies for overcoming the challenges inherent in cross-platform rich-client development" and how semiconductor manufacturer Synopsis uses Qt to "develop high-performance cross-platform applications". People who attend the seminar, and fill out a feedback form afterwards, will be entered into a draw to win an Archos PMA 400 Personal Media Assistant. The seminar is to take place on 29th March at 12pm eastern time. There's no mention of a price, or of what audio/video format the seminar is to take.

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From KDE Dot News:

K.N has published a write-up of their appearance at the FOSDEM (Free & Open Source Developers' European Meeting) in Belgium over the weekend. Summaries of the talks (including one by RMS and several on Kubuntu and KOffice. Several links to photos of the event. (More: Raphael Langerhorst, Bram Schoenmakers, Sebastian Kuegler, Pascal Bleser.)

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Trolltech have announced six dates for regional developer conferences this year, in cities across the US and Europe. The US cities listed are Chicago, Houston TX, Boston MA; in Europe: Cambridge, Paris and Hamburg. Pricing is $199 in the US and €199 in Europe. Speakers listed are Eirik Chambe-Eng, Matthias Ettrich, Andreas Hanssen, Marius Bugge-Monsen, Gunnar Sletta, Scott Collins, Jasmin Blanchette and Trenton Schulz. For full details, including schedule:

Trolltech - Trolltech Developer Days 2005

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From KDE Dot News:

Badopi, the Barcelona Linux user group, is organising a Spanish-language KDE event, "aKademy-es", which is to take place in the city, 3rd-5th March; full details here.

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From KDE Dot News:

KDE are to be well-represented at the upcoming FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting), to be held on 25th and 26th February 2006 in Brussels. Two KDE-focused speeches have been announced: Raphael Langerhorst on KOffice 1.5 and Jonathan Riddell on Kubuntu; there is also a "devroom" to serve as the KDE people's central meeting point. People intending to attend the event should register at the FOSDEM Wiki.

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Trolltech is supporting a one-day event in Beijing on the 29th of this month called Chinese Mobile Phone Leadership: Leveraging Linux, at the Kerry Centre Hotel. It's "an exclusive conference which will bring together key stakeholders in the Chinese wireless phone market to discuss the strategic importance of Linux-based phones". Participants include MontaVista, Opera Software, Pollex, Teleca, Intel and a number of Chinese mobile phone companies. The event is organised by the China Academy of Telecommunications Research (CATR) of the Ministry of Information Industries (MII). Information in English about the CATR and registration links here.

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Andreas Aardal Hanssen has posted a report on the San José Developer Day on the Qt Developers' Blog. Not much detail but a few photos. Also, Ariya Hidayat has drawn attention to a Blogspot with details of fixed KDE bugs; it's auto-generated with a Python script.

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From KDE Developers:

Christian Tibirna reports that he is to give a presentation on KDE at SQIL (Semaine Québécoise de l'informatique libre - Quebec's Week for Free Computing), on invitation from Québec City Linux Users' Group (LINUQ. The talk will be in French, titled "Trucs et astuces avec KDE" (Tips and Tricks with KDE), and given on Sat 19th November at 2pm local time, in one of the conference rooms of Palasis-Prince Pavilion at Laval University. Any more tips and tricks are invited at the KDE Developers entry linked above.

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Trolltech are to hold two breakfast seminars at the upcoming Linux World Expo in Frankfurt. The seminars are on 17th November; there is a welcome speech by Elvind Throndsen, Qt Product Manager, at 8am; a speech by Qt Developer Harald Fernengel on "Linux Development with Qt" at 8.15am, and one by Scott Collins on "Shaping Thinking with UI" at 9am. The event is free, but there are only 45 places, and registration (at link above) will close on 11th November.

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From KDE Dot News:

A "strong KDE presence" is to be found at the Andalusian Free Software Conference (Jornadas Andaluzas de Software Libre), sponsored by the Andalucian regional government and the University of Cordoba, among others, to be held in Cordoba this weekend. Presentations are to be given on KDE's Kiosk feature, Guadalinex, Bulmages (KDE accounting software) and the FreeNX remote desktop software. Schedule here, all in Spanish as is the entire website.

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From KDE Dot News:

The KDE project are to be represented at two major events in Germany this month, Berlinux 2005 (Fri 21 and Sat 22) and Linux-Info-Tag Dresden (Sat 29). At the latter event there is to be a talk in German by Tobias Koenig on the future of KDE and the stall is to emphasise the educational and PIM aspects of KDE. Full details at the link above.

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Via Planet KDE, Aaron Seigo has written a report on his contribution to the San Diego Open Source Desktop Workshop, with three pictures. Mentions the contributions Microsoft has been making to recent open-source events (although not, one observes, to open source itself!) and more material support from Linspire.

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Trolltech note on their special events page that Trolltech's Scott Collins is to give a presentation, "Introduction to Qt 4", at the upcoming Frankfurt Linux World Expo (15th-17th Nov 2005). Collins' speech will be on the 16th at 6pm and is to last one hour. The presentation will be in English; here's an excerpt from the details on the Expo website:

It will highlight the major changes in Qt4 from previous releases, and show just how little code you need to achieve even very complex behavior. Key new facilities examined are: the painting engine (bringing easy double-buffering, alpha-blending, and more); the model/view framework; the improved text-rende