KDE Project Day at FOSS.IN/2007

KDE will be participating at
FOSS.IN/2007, India's premier
FOSS event in Bangalore. KDE Project Day is this Wednesday 5th December.
Project Day will have a complete starter course for eager
contributors to jump into KDE. Speakers would showcase various avenues
of contribution to KDE - artwork, documentation, translation,
development, marketing et al, basics of Qt/KDE programming and the
various frameworks as well as the state and future of KDE 4 and more. This is the biggest
ever representation and splash by KDE on Indian soil. Read on for details including the new KDE India website.

KDE Project Day schedule is as follows:

• Till Adam - The Pillars of KDE 4
• Pradeepto K Bhattacharya - How to be a part of the gang?
• Pradeepto K Bhattacharya - KDE 4 development setup
• Kevin Ottens - Qt/KDE Concepts and Frameworks: Overview
• Girish Ramakrishnan - Styling Qt Using Style Sheets
• Piyush Verma - Kdevelop3/4: Beyond C++...extending the Language Base.
• Kevin Ottens - Test Driven Development with Qt and KDE
• Prashanth N Udupa - Component Software Design/Development

The conf's complete schedule is available at
http://foss.in/2007/schedules/. There are some more Qt and KDE talks and
tutorials by core KDE dudes happening during the main conference:

• Kevin Ottens - KDE/ISI Student Projects
• Till Adam - Akonadi - Personal Information Unleashed
• Volker Krause - Developing PIM applications with Akonadi
• Simon Hausmann - QtWebKit

Also an old KDE contributor Holger Hans Peter Freyther is speaking on
"Using OpenEmbedded to power Open Devices". There are plans to have
a Qt/KDE hack centre and BoFs sessions as well.

The local KDE community (KDE India) team has been working on various
stuff for the KDE Project Day @ FOSS.IN/2007. We'll have a booth at
FOSS.IN. There will be KDE swag like stickers and posters. All artwork and printing work has been done by local volunteers for the first time. KDE and KDE-India T-shirts were kindly sponsored by Swati and Tarique Sani of SANIsoft. People we
expect to attend the KDE Project day and the conference as a whole
range from young students aspiring to contribute to KDE and FOSS in
general to developers/artists/translators/integrators who are
enthusiastic about the vibrant community. There is a lot of everything
for everyone :)

The gang is planning to have lot of fun at the conference and eat a
lot of awesome local food.

The KDE-India local community became two years old on 2nd December. It was
formed over a KDE BoF in Foss.in/2005. Since then we have reached a long way and there still remain many more goals to achieve.

On its second anniversary, KDE India team is proud to announce its new
wikified website: www.kde.in. The site aims to showcase Getting
Involved tutorials, event participation, regular interviews of Indian
FOSS contributors and personalities, Qt/KDE application reviews, localisation efforts and much more. If you have written something about the KDE project, an informative Qt/KDE tutorial or an interesting review on Qt/KDE application that is free and open source lately, then this is the time to get them published.