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  LinuxTag 2003: A Great Success
Community and Events Posted by Daniel Molkentin on Wednesday 16/Jul/2003, @21:19
from the actually-now-the-worlds-largest dept.
As always, the KDE Team participated in this year's LinuxTag which took place in Karlsruhe, Germany. LinuxTag is a platform for Free Software projects and Linux related companies with an exhibition area and a wide range of talks. With more than 19,500 visitors, this year's LinuxTag has become the largest Linux event in the world. Even away from the KDE booth, there was a lot of KDE stuff to see. (Update: Pictures of KDE/GNOME dinner added.)

As usual, the KDE booth in the exhibition area was crowded. There, both KDE 3.1 and CVS HEAD were shown on four machines. As a special feature, KDE was shown on an Opteron which was made available by AMD. There were almost no problems getting it to compile, and it worked great. Many people dropped by to see the latest developments and were fascinated by the whole range of promising new features and applications such as Kontact, KDE's future Groupware suite and Kexi, a database management system for office users. Many users also used the opportunity to talk directly to the developers in order to provide feedback and suggestions. KDE developers used the hacking area to jointly develop new ideas and hack on KDE.

There was a lot of socialization. A lot of new project participants had a chance to meet some of the other developers. LinuxTag's Social Event on Friday was big fun this time and a good opportunity to talk (and have a beer!) with members of other projects or companies. Thursday night, KDE and Debian guys had dinner together. On Saturday, Gnome and Debian folks joined us for a dinner organized by KDE's Ralf Nolden. All those events were really enjoyed by the participants. Yet that did of course not stop people from unpacking their laptops at some point and starting to hack. It's a passion.

At the booth of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Intevation and the KDE PIM developers Ingo Klöcker, Marc Mutz, Tobias König and Daniel Molkentin presented Kolab which had its first official release there. Again, the feedback from the visitors, among them a lot of IT decision makers from companies and government agencies was very positive. So expect Kolab to hit your desktop at work very soon! Credativ showed a KDE desktop on Debian basis, also running Kolab. The "Office Productivity Booth" demo'ed KDE's printing capabilities in action.

A lot of KDE related talks took place at the conference area. In his speech, Ralf Nolden presented KDE and gave an overview of new features in KDE 3.2. Bo Thorsen, who was kindly assisted by Martin Konold, gave a talk on Kolab which was very well received. Bernhard Reiter from the FSF Europe reported on his experience with Kroupware and Ägypten. Andreas Brand from the University of Frankfurt gave an interesting overview of KDE's social structure which he analyzed by studying the community and conducting interviews at the last LinuxTag. David Faure presented the power of Valgrind and KCacheGrind in his talk about effective software debugging.

We found many companies running KDE, among them giants such as HP and SAP. At the booth of Ark Linux, KDE hacker Bernhard "Bero" Rosenkränzer demonstrated a Linux distribution with impressive seamless integration of system management tools within KDE as well as an OpenH323 based video conferencing software for KDE based on GnomeMeeting.

LinuxTag once again proved to be a very good platform for a mix of hacker gathering and representation with a unique atmosphere. We all look forward to meet you at LinuxTag 2004!

The inevitable photo series:



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KDE Meeting?
by Navindra Umanee on Wednesday 16/Jul/2003, @23:21
Oh it would be so awesome to have a native OpenH323 app bundled with KDE!

Currently I'm using GNOME Meeting, which is not too bad, but the interface could certainly use KDE'fying... not just look'n'feel wise, but annoying stuff you expect to work like better autocompletion in the callto:// bar, the chat window being more resizable, sound notifications not working (lack of aRts support).

Anyway, a decent KDE version would just plain rock!

PS Those Ark Linux system tools look pretty wicked too.
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  • Re: KDE Meeting?
    by Richard on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @01:19
    As usual there is already some code out there. Unfortenately the current
    developers have no time to continue working on it.

    Info at:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/konference/
    http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/konference/konference/

    Richard
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  • Re: KDE Meeting?
    by Daniel Molkentin on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @02:34
    Hi Navindra!

    I had a reason for not adding a link to the Conference Software as it does not have a homepage yet. It's not Konference but a new project by Natasha Sainty from arklinux.

    See http://www.arklinux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/video_conference/
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maybe the presentations are online?
by emmanuel on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @00:55
are the presentations (ppt, kpresenter, OO, png, html) online?
could be a nice read...

emmanuel
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  • Re: maybe the presentations are online?
    by Arno Nym on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @03:24
    No, at least not yet
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    • Re: maybe the presentations are online?
      by Sage on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @09:05
      David Faure's debugging presentation sounds very interesting - an online version would be really nice for some of us far away. thks.
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      • Re: maybe the presentations are online?
        by Fafnirx on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @09:26
        It was really interesting. But I'm not sure if the slides without the presented tests of valgrind and expecially kcachegrind are helpfull.
        Fafnirx
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        • Re: maybe the presentations are online?
          by Ariya on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @11:23
          I agree, it was absolutely interesting (this is just for teaser: http://ariya.pandu.org/gallery/linuxtag/davidfaure.jpg).

          The night after, I rushed to download the latest valgrind, cachegrind, and kcachegrind and jumped to start grindifying kspread.
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          • Re: maybe the presentations are online?
            by anon on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @19:33
            That is one hell of a large presentation screen!
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            • Re: maybe the presentations are online?
              by Ariya on Friday 18/Jul/2003, @03:08
              I told you it's just a teaser :-P
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printing.kde.org
by Olaf Jan Schmidt on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @01:32
In case you got a 404: The link to print.kde.org should point to printer.kde.org instead.
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  • Re: printing.kde.org
    by Chris Howells on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @02:02
    OK, you got the right thing in the subject, but the wrong thing in the body.

    It's printing.kde.org :)

    Chris Howells
    (printing.kde.org Webmaster)
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More pictures ...
by Klaus Staerk on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @01:53
More pictures (with comments) are available at http://www.kde.de/events/linuxtag2003/
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article fixes
by Navindra Umanee on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @02:18
link fixes etc, applied. thanks.
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Video Conference - not Konference
by David Sainty on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @02:35
All, we don't have a web site for the Video Conference project/app yet. Konference, which is linked in the article (http://konference.sf.net/) is a different project.

- Video Conference may be viewed in CVS at:

http://www.arklinux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/video_conference/

- Packages are available currently for Ark Linux (requires pwlib and openh323)
- We'll try to get a web page up soon. :-)
- You can find the Ark Linux team, including the main author of Video Conference, on freenode #arklinux and find out more about Ark Linux at:

http://www.arklinux.org/
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  • Re: Video Conference - not Konference
    by uga on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @04:36
    Uhm.... I downloaded the version from CVS, but I was unable to build it (PVideoOutputDeviceRGB is not defined anywhere here). Should those of us not using ark report bugs somewhere?
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    • Re: Video Conference - not Konference
      by Navindra Umanee on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @05:15
      The RPM from current seems to work on Mandrake if you use --nodeps, as long as you have the dependencies for gnome meeting already installed.
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      • Re: Video Conference - not Konference
        by uga on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @05:40
        Thanks! I'll give it a try that way. Although I'd prefer to be able to compile it, since I use kde from HEAD usually for coding.
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    • Re: Video Conference - not Konference
      by Arno Nym on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @05:17
      PVideoOutputDeviceRGB should be somewhere in the OpenH323/Plib packages (as it starts with a P). Probably you have the wrong version...
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      • Re: Video Conference - not Konference
        by uga on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @05:37
        I found only "PVideoOutputDevice" (without RGB) which is defined in the pwlib (v1.4.7) headers. I tried to replace it with this class name, so one file compiled, but I got several errors later on, related to virtual functions.

        It seems that the latest version for pwlib out there is 1.5.0. I'll try to see if it works with that version.
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      • Re: Video Conference - not Konference
        by uga on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @05:55
        Yeap! its there :-) ptlib/videoio.h from Pwlib 1.5. Thanks very much for the hint.
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    • Re: Video Conference - not Konference
      by Henning on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @06:02
      I converted the SRPM and tried to compile videoconference under Debian unstable.
      Then I installed libpt[-dev] and libh323[-dev] but it still fails to compile. I guess videoconference does not like my gcc 3.3.1 :-(

      In file included from vcgrabber.h:40,
      from videoconference_part.cpp:45:
      vcdevice.h:54: error: syntax error before `{' token
      vcdevice.h:55: error: virtual outside class declaration
      vcdevice.h:55: error: non-member function `const char* GetClass(unsigned int)'
      cannot have `const' method qualifier
      vcdevice.h: In function `const char* GetClass(unsigned int)':
      vcdevice.h:55: error: `PVideoOutputDeviceRGB' undeclared (first use this
      function)
      vcdevice.h:55: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for
      each function it appears in.)
      vcdevice.h:55: error: syntax error before `::' token
      vcdevice.h:55: error: incomplete type 'VCDevice' cannot be used to name a scope
      vcdevice.h: At global scope:
      vcdevice.h:55: error: virtual outside class declaration
      vcdevice.h:55: error: non-member function `BOOL IsClass(const char*)' cannot
      have `const' method qualifier
      vcdevice.h: In function `BOOL IsClass(const char*)':
      vcdevice.h:55: error: incomplete type 'VCDevice' cannot be used to name a scope
      vcdevice.h: At global scope:
      vcdevice.h:55: error: virtual outside class declaration
      vcdevice.h:55: error: non-member function `BOOL IsDescendant(const char*)'
      cannot have `const' method qualifier
      vcdevice.h: In function `BOOL IsDescendant(const char*)':
      vcdevice.h:55: error: incomplete type 'VCDevice' cannot be used to name a scope
      vcdevice.h:55: error: syntax error before `::' token
      vcdevice.h:55: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void
      vcdevice.h: At global scope:
      vcdevice.h:55: error: syntax error before `(' token
      vcdevice.h:60: error: syntax error before `*' token
      vcdevice.h:61: error: syntax error before `int'
      vcdevice.h:62: error: destructors must be member functions
      vcdevice.h:65: error: virtual outside class declaration
      vcdevice.h:66: error: virtual outside class declaration
      vcdevice.h: In function `BOOL IsOpen()':
      vcdevice.h:66: error: `GetFrameWidth' undeclared (first use this function)
      vcdevice.h: At global scope:
      vcdevice.h:67: error: virtual outside class declaration
      vcdevice.h:67: error: non-member function `PStringList GetDeviceNames()' cannot
      have `const' method qualifier
      vcdevice.h:68: error: virtual outside class declaration
      vcdevice.h:70: error: syntax error before `private'
      vcdevice.h:91: error: syntax error before `}' token
      /usr/include/ptlib/pdirect.h:458: warning: inline function `static BOOL
      PDirectory::Remove(const PString&)' used but never defined
      make[2]: *** [videoconference_part.lo] Error 1
      make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/video_conference-0.2/src'
      make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
      make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/video_conference-0.2'
      make: *** [all] Error 2
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      • Re: Video Conference - not Konference
        by uga on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @07:50
        > vcdevice.h:54: error: syntax error before `{' token

        Your problem is the same as mine. In that line it's trying to inherit from class PVideoOutputDeviceRGB which doesn't exist in your headers (pwlib 1.4.x probably?) That's why you get the error.

        If you install version 1.5 of pwlib it _should_ compile fine.
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  • Re: Video Conference - not Konference
    by None on Monday 28/Jul/2003, @02:49
    Congratulations for the port of GnomeMeeting! Are there screenshots?
    That will show the KDE superiority again!
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Are there transcripts?
by Derek Kite on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @07:24
Anywhere? I'd like to read the Kolab presentations.

Derek
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  • Add me to the request list ;)
    by Datschge on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @09:04
    I'd like to read more about all those mentioned speeches as well.
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Nice roundup :)
by Stormy on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @08:46
Well... Now I wish I could be there :)
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Dinner? You had dinner?
by Sinuhe on Thursday 17/Jul/2003, @11:33
Wow! Having dinner implies that you actually found a restaurant in Karlsruhe?

I couldn't find a sensible one at all -- not even after having driven an hour through the more urban parts of the city in search of a pizzeria. No, truth be told, there were two in the south-west of the city, but both were closed, one from 15:00 to 18:00, and the other one from 14:30 to 17:30. What in the world is wrong with restaurants in Germany? And those that are open are self-service (the vegetarian one near the centre of the town was not that bad, however)!
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  • Re: Dinner? You had dinner?
    by Norbert on Friday 18/Jul/2003, @01:04
    Well, to be honest: there are hundreds of restaurants in Karlsruhe (I used to live there for many years) and many good ones. I wonder who you asked to find one...
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  • Re: Dinner? You had dinner?
    by Anno v. Heimburg on Friday 18/Jul/2003, @07:03
    > not even after having driven an hour

    That's your mistake right there: If you had *walked* through the pedestrian zone that covers most of the inner city, you'ld have had trouble *not* finding a place to eat.
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Kolab announcement?
by Thorsten Schnebeck on Friday 18/Jul/2003, @03:17
Kolab server and client are now 1.0.
Hmm, time for an announcement on all sites (dot, kde.org, kolab.org)?

Bye

Thorsten
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Typo
by Bob on Friday 18/Jul/2003, @04:48
The sentence "there was lots of socialization" should read "There was lots of socializing."

Socialization refers to the process whereby an invididual is made accustomed to his/her society. It also means the act of making a sector of the economy government-run.
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  • Re: Typo
    by Derek Kite on Friday 18/Jul/2003, @07:49
    Maybe the sentence was right. It is a bunch of computer programmers we're talking about here :-}

    Derek
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fli4l-Gallery from LinuxDay
by Carsten on Wednesday 23/Jul/2003, @01:18
On http://www.fli4l.de/gallery/lt2003 you can see the fli4l-Gallery from LinuxDay in Karlsruhe.

Carsten
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