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Strong KDE Presence at LinuxWorld NYC

Posted by Mark Bucciarelli on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @11:19
from the all-your-awards-are-belong-to-us dept.
The preparations for the KDE presence at the upcoming LinuxWorld NYC are now complete. It should be a blast! We have ten KDE volunteers staffing the booth, some great demo hardware (generously provided by SUSE), a seven-foot banner, Kolab Server/KDE Groupware demos on a 21" LCD (provided by Ian Reinhart Geiser), and a laptop we will give away to one lucky booth visitor. It is also worth a mention that KDE has been named finalist in two categories of the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards: Best Open Source Project and Best Development Tool (KDevelop). The North American PR momentum continues to grow!

On the technical side, in addition to the two SUSE machines running KDE 3.2, Ian Reinhart Geiser will have a minicube with Debian unstable and XFree 4.3 and have demos for:

KDE Groupware with Kolab and SourceXtreme's Kolab connector
KDevelop 3.0 and Quanta
KConfigXT, KDE EDU, KDE Desktop Services, and KJSEmbed

All this in addition to general Q&A on KDE deployment and development in companies.

Sticking with the KJSEmbed theme, on Thursday George Staikos will present a talk on desktop scripting (KJSEmbed, DCOP, and other fun stuff) that is only available to people with conference passes.

In addition to the technical demos, we also have a bit of press relations set up. George will be doing a 15 minute SysCon radio show on "What's New in 3.2" and Brian Proffitt (managing editor at Linux Today) will stop by on Wednesday to get an update on progress on the Conquering the Enterprise Desktop initiative.

A final note of thanks to Nathan Krause at NALeKRA. He approached the KDE e.V. with an offer of thanks for all the great work done on KDE, and as a token of his appreciation he donated a laptop to KDE that we will give away at the booth. Thanks Nathan!

If you are going to the show, be sure to stop by and say hello!

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Great !
by domi on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @12:01

Congratulations and thanks to everyone involved !

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Wow!
by David on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @12:07

In the Linux World Product Excellence Awards KDE has a pretty strong presence. In the Front Office Award Ximian is no where to be seen. I have to say, Xandros is an truly excellent distribution, and it should get a heck of a lot more press - as should all KDE distributions.

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Re: Wow! by DA on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @20:43

Re: Wow! by anon on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @21:33

Re: Wow! by Rik Hemsley on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @04:35

Re: Wow! by Ian Reinhart Geiser on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @07:29

Re: Wow! by David on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @02:48
Re: Wow! by George Staikos on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @05:14
Re: Wow! by ac on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @09:27

Re: Wow! by anon on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @12:21

Best Of Show
by manyoso on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @13:04

We'll be up for Best Of Show too! Hey... nothing wrong with thinking big ;)

"Best of Show" will be awarded to the product deemed by the judges to be an important advancement in the state of the art, and a major step forward for Linux in the market place.

It looks like it's up to KDE and Gentoo for the Best Open Source Project. I just can't see Sun's JXTA or Real's Helix Player (bllleeeccckkkkk) competing with all of KDE. Hell, I can't see much competing with all of KDE ;)

Oh and KDevelop should win hands down over the other tools. Now, if they had put up Quanta then maybe we'd have some competition...

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Re: Best Of Show by ac on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @16:22

Re: Best Of Show by Vikram Dendi on Tuesday 27/Jan/2004, @23:31

Kolab
by Thorsten Schnebeck on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @13:20

Presenting Kolab in a mixed Unix-Windows client setup is great stuff.
Any chance to enter the "Best Productivity Application" contest also? :-))

Bye

Thorsten

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Re: Kolab by uga on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @14:27

Re: Kolab by Ian Reinhart Geiser on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @19:24

Re: Kolab by muleli on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @23:24

Re: Kolab by datadevil on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @02:12

Re: Kolab by uga on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @03:38

Re: Kolab by datadevil on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @02:14

Re: Kolab by Ian Reinhart Geiser on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @06:15

Re: Kolab by datadevil on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @09:10

SOunds GREAT!
by Alex on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @14:10

PR really is very important, especially with all the FUD that has been spread about KDE and the great PR GNOME is doing too.

Can't wait to hear how the conference will go~

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aweww
by anon on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @14:28

I'm torn between Gentoo and KDE in the best product award. Oh well, I'll be happy if either win. :)

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Re: aweww by Alex on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @17:44

Re: aweww by Andr� Somers on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @23:46

Re: aweww by Alex on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @10:29
Re: aweww by Roberto Alsina on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @10:35

Re: aweww by Derek Kite on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @18:54

Re: aweww by Roberto Alsina on Saturday 17/Jan/2004, @05:11

Re: aweww by Derek Kite on Saturday 17/Jan/2004, @07:16

Re: aweww by Dominic on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @18:55

Re: aweww by uga on Saturday 17/Jan/2004, @04:33
Re: aweww by Roberto Alsina on Saturday 17/Jan/2004, @05:15

Re: aweww by Janne on Sunday 18/Jan/2004, @10:06

Re: aweww by Roberto on Sunday 18/Jan/2004, @15:54

Re: aweww by Janne on Sunday 18/Jan/2004, @22:29

Re: aweww by Tom on Saturday 17/Jan/2004, @03:49

Re: aweww by Roberto Alsina on Saturday 17/Jan/2004, @05:09

Re: aweww by Caleb Tennis on Sunday 18/Jan/2004, @05:28

Re: aweww by Roberto Alsina on Sunday 18/Jan/2004, @08:48

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Re: aweww by Roberto on Sunday 18/Jan/2004, @15:47

Re: aweww by Janne on Sunday 18/Jan/2004, @22:32

LinuxWorld show
by JC on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @16:04

I want to go :)))
Well, I have to find some time next week to go to nyc see the KDE booth. It seems pretty nice this year.

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KDE on OSX
by Benjamin Meyer on Thursday 15/Jan/2004, @16:10

I will be walking around on Thursday & Friday with my Apple Laptop for those who wish to see KDE on it :)

-Benjamin Meyer

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Re: KDE on OSX by David on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @02:50
Re: KDE on OSX by William Janoch on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @20:02
Re: KDE on OSX by Richard Bonomo on Thursday 21/Jul/2005, @12:15

USA?
by Gerd Br�ckner on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @09:23

I don't know whether it is good to have development based in the USA. DMCA, Software patents, export regulations .... So I guess it is better to remain a Europe-centered DE before the US make trouble with their crude law.

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Re: USA? by Ian Reinhart Geiser on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @09:51

Re: USA? by Eric Laffoon on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @11:54
Re: USA? by Tom on Friday 16/Jan/2004, @12:56

Award results
by Thorsten Schnebeck on Wednesday 21/Jan/2004, @13:14

http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn?ID=1024

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