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Re: Next european linux meeting?
by Andy "Storm" Goossens on Saturday 02/Feb/2002, @15:57

Always remember older booths and try to learn something on what could be improved. Follow this simple rule and the next booth will even be better :-)

Sean Pecor said (see above) already a few good things that could be done at FOSDEM. If time is too short to arrange them for FOSDEM, just use them for the booth after that.

Something different:
I was thinking maybe we should make a KDE CD. Put the sources on it and the binaries (yeah... I know, KDE doesn't provide binaries...) and other useful stuff. A CD can be distro specific: e.g. a Mandrake KDE CD and that could create a way to let Mandrake sponsor those CD's. :-)

Everybody happy... the user gets his KDE, KDE gets more users, and the distro that helped us gets attention too

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Re: Next european linux meeting?
by Rob Kaper on Sunday 03/Feb/2002, @03:56

FOSDEM is somewhat different: it's not a regular exhibition, it's a meeting by and for developers only. So the booth (if any) will have a larger social function and less of a promotional purpose.

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Re: Next european linux meeting?
by Philippe Fremy on Sunday 03/Feb/2002, @07:20

Yes, we should probably keep a page somewhere relating how to make a successful booth, with things that will draw attention from the visitors and give them some incentive to get concerned about KDE.

Gerard had many copies of a sheet of paper presenting briefly the project and asking help for translation. All people would first take the sheet and read, and then come to us to speak. Or they would stop to read the paper and then I would come to talk to them. Else, they probably wouldn't have stopped. So having a small brochure is very helpful.

The big K poster and the T-shirts were visible and attracted people too. We should not hide. :-)

We had no demo of advanced feature, but we should definitely prepare something for the FOSDEM. We will have to show Gnome and GnuStep developers what you can do with an "advanced" desktop!

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Re: Next european linux meeting?
by Bob on Sunday 03/Feb/2002, @12:05

We will have to show Gnome and GnuStep developers what you can do with an "advanced" desktop!

<troll>So you are going start coding for Gnome? Don’t you like KDE "Kiddy Desktop Environment"?

KDE looks slick acts sick. Once KDE 3.0 is released you can wait 6 months later and KDE 4.0 will show up. KDE is only good as a KDE development tool. Maybe someday you will realize that Bob Businessperson "ME" sees this as a put-off. We see once every three years with MS as a pain. KDE will Kill KDE. Overwork your maintainers and they will quit. Stay a moving target and business people wont even look at you.</troll>

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Re: Next european linux meeting?
by Carbon on Monday 04/Feb/2002, @12:43

Sorry, but your arguments don't make much sense. It doesn't matter if KDE versions are released fairly often, since binary compatibility between running desktops is maintained (given that you have compatibility libraries installed).

Also, the time span between releases is several years, not six months. About the same time span exists between major releases of GNOME and GnuStep as well, and only a slightly larger one (about 50% larger) between major sub-releases of the Linux kernel, and major releases of XFree86.

KDE really isn't a moving target, and it certainly is useful as more then a KDE development tool; I use it for several hours every day, typing code for various projects in various languages (Konsole is a godsend), browsing the net with Konqi, listening to music, etc.

Constructive critisicm is good, but please back up your arguments some more.

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Re: Next european linux meeting?
by Hetz on Tuesday 05/Feb/2002, @16:46

Sorry Sir, but you're very wrong here..

At my previous job, all the developers came to work were from Windows world, and not a single developer knew about Linux..

I installed to them 2 demo machines - both machines with Red Hat 7.2 - one of them is running Gnome & one is running KDE (and KDevelop). Guess which desktop enviroments they wanted on their 60 workstations? (KDE)

I told the management that KDE is a very fast developing desktop enviroment - but it will be fully backward compatible - they took it with open hands.

So I really don't get your point, sir...

Hetz

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