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  Akademy 2008 Call for Sponsorship
Community and Events Posted by Kenny Duffus on Wednesday 12/Mar/2008, @10:17
from the making-it-happen dept.
The organisers of Akademy 2008 are looking for sponsorship. Akademy is the KDE World Summit, this year taking place in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium in August. Sponsorship is an opportunity to promote your company or product to the developers, users, deployers and consultants who will attend the conference from around the world.
sponsorship brochure

Akademy plays a central role in KDE community, enabling contributors to give presentations, discuss and develop software face to face, allowing them to get to know the people they work with often on a daily basis over electronic communication channels. Becoming a sponsor will provide a marketing avenue for your company to the hundreds of attendees and 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 please contact us at akademy-sponsoring@kde.org. If you know of any companies in your local area who could also be potential Akademy sponsors, please let us know too.



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akademy2008 logo sucks.
by andre on Wednesday 12/Mar/2008, @13:50
It really does. :(
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Attendies Akademy 2007 -> Attendees
by Speling eror on Thursday 13/Mar/2008, @08:55
Attendies Akademy 2007 -> Attendees
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Looks nice!
by Ascay on Thursday 13/Mar/2008, @12:46
The brochure looks quite nice, I can't really unterstand the complaints.

Keep in mind that the margins are for printing. Page 3-5 have a minor font issue. On my system it is nearly noticeable but I've seen some pretty fucked up Linux installations with heavy font problems. Maybe it looks much worser on such systems. E.g. on the screenshot in the news "Sponsorship Brochure" looks absolutely terrible - on my system it looks perfect. What a difference.

Besides the content per se is well done. Short paragraphs but enough information. Nice to read even on a display.
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ugh...
by mike on Friday 14/Mar/2008, @10:49
WAKE UP PEOPLE!

a negative comment is posted on the dot, and all of a sudden there is a flurry of people debating moderation schemes.

That's right, let's ignore the people we'd care not to listen to, to further delude ourselves.

oh wait, i have an idea!!!! the negative posters must be some gnomies, or couldnt possibly be contributors. WRONG again.

It says on the brochure that it was created in conjunction with two individuals, the akademy team, the community, and the ev. Do we not see a problem here?!?!?!?!?!? WAKE UP! this crap survived a review?!?!? BY WHO?! SERIOUSLY!?!

QUALITY CONTROL PEOPLE!!!

do you see why people could have strong opinions about this?! they're supporters (not gnomies or windows users you idiots!) You want sponsors with LOTS of money to align themselves with a fantastic DE, and THIS!!! is what you send them!?!??! COME ON, WAKE UP! it looks like it was slapped together in an afternoon. What's with the messed up fonts? compressed to shit rasters? what's with the margins? The pages look like they're shoved in the corners, i could go on and on. (but no aaron. I don't have a lot of extra free time and energy)

do you really mean to suggest that AFTER it's officially released I should suggest 50+ things to clean up this rubbish publication so there would be TWO official brochures?! how does that look?

There are many problems with the brochure and the process that released it. If instead this was released as a sample to improve with community input, great, but instead a piece of junk is presented as *the* brochure.

so i rest, it is horrible, it does suck. consistency was no where to be found.

and before the devs fire up their keyboards to shout at me. they should think about the process with which their code is scrutinized and corrected and reworked before it's officially released. Why would something so essential as a sponsorship brochure not be subject to this process?!
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What really sucks
by Uwe Thiem on Saturday 15/Mar/2008, @06:32
"This sucks" sucks.

Uwe
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nothing sucks
by litb on Sunday 16/Mar/2008, @07:57
the logo looks awesome. i especially like the colors of 2008, and how it plays nicely with the background of the sky. continue this good artwork! saying "it sucks" does not tell us anything to improve it. please stop that!
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