Malaga Named as Location for 2005 KDE Conference
Wednesday, 2 February 2005 | Jriddell
After an evaluation process of several possible locations, Malaga in southern Spain has been chosen as the location of the 2005 KDE conference by the KDE e.V. membership in a recent vote. The conference will be held by KDE e.V. in cooperation with different sponsors.
Antonio Larosa Jimenez has been appointed the Assembler, the project manager for the conference. It is his rightful duty and privilege to decide on a conference name. Antonio will have a budget available provided by KDE e.V. for his expenses during the first phase of the meeting preparations.
All KDE contributers are encouraged to actively support Antonio. The conference is the main KDE event of the year.
Comments:
Great! - VÃctor Fernández - 2005-02-02
Great! I live in Valencia (Spain). I was thinking about traveling to Germany if the conference was there, but now I have it only 600 km away. :)
Re: Great! - Ian Monroe - 2005-02-02
Well you are kind of traveling to Germany, since Malaga is pretty much a German province.
Re: Great! - Josep Payo - 2005-02-02
Yes, right, seems is following the Mallorca</a> experience :) http://www.infomallorca.net Greetings from Barcelona! http://www.bcn.es -- Josep Payo Tijuana Time - Josep Payo Weblog http://blog.solucio.com/
Re: Great! - jesuscliment - 2005-02-02
Where in? Your name sounds familiar... From Gandia, perhaps?
Re: Great! - Víctor Fernández - 2005-02-02
No, I'm from La Pobla de Vallbona (25km away from Valencia). I'm in PoLinux and I'm the one behind Plastikfox. Your name is also familiar to me, from Barrapunto I think.
Re: Great! - th1nk3r - 2005-02-02
Victor, I will go with you, when buy the tickets? xD
Re: Great! - Víctor Fernández - 2005-02-02
¡Hombre, th1nk3r! ¿Cómo va todo? Supongo que lo comentaremos por la lista por si se quiere apuntar más gente. Tenemos localizado un albergue que está de puta madre, así que podríamos ir en manada, jejeje.
Re: Great! - NabLa - 2005-02-02
Sure! I live in Sevilla, I think that I will take a look to the event :)
off-topic : atlantik is back... - Mathieu Jobin - 2005-02-02
well, to make a story short... As you guys may know already, Atlantik server has been down for a while. but looks like they are back on track. I'm currently playing using 0.7.5 (3.4 cvs) against somebody using 0.7.1 (3.3) which means it probably works for most of us. come on folks, lets play atlantik .....
Time / date - Brad Hards - 2005-02-02
Has the date been set? 13 megametres is a long way to come, and it takes a while to organise if you don't want to pay a fortune.
Re: Time / date - Anonymous - 2005-02-02
Likely August to September
Re: Time / date - Brad Hards - 2005-02-02
I guessed late summer, but I was hoping for a bit higher resolution (like, perhaps which week, or a couple of options, rather than a couple of months:-). Even knowing when the schedule will be released would help...
Re: Time / date - Anonymous - 2005-02-02
There are not so many weeks spanning from August to September.
Re: Time / date - anonymous - 2005-02-02
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Re: Time / date - Anonymous - 2005-02-02
Language confusion aside it's only one week.
I will be there! - Ignacio Monge - 2005-02-02
See you in Malaga!
Antonio, you rock! - suy - 2005-02-02
Great! In the akademy, Antonio told us, the spanish guys who came there, that Malaga was a candidate for the next conference. I am really happy with this decision, because the amount of spanish people that likes KDE, is big, but we don't make many meetings, and sometimes we don't seem very active. I live a bit far from Malaga, but in the time I'm at the conference, I will try to do my best in helping. I had a great time at Ludwigsburg, and I hope we'll have a lot of fun in Malaga. Enjoy!
I'll be there! - Gonzalo - 2005-02-02
If the conference is held in late September, I'll be there. I expect to be back in Granada by then and it should be a short drive. BTW, KDE keeps on getting better and better. You guys rock! To the rest of the KDE developers. We, Spaniards, are going to teach you how to party. :)
(hopefully) I'll be there! - David Vignoni - 2005-02-02
Wow, it's a lot of time I didn't go to Spain, there are many lowcost flights from italy. But, when it will happen? Dave
Malaga Named as Location for 2005 KDE Conference - Torsten Rahn - 2005-02-02
Hope it won't rain in Malaga during the conference :-) Torsten
Re: Malaga Named as Location for 2005 KDE Conference - TeXTer - 2005-02-02
Here, in Seville, didn't rain since november, and it was only for a few days, before that...since spring, I think. Lol..my "engrish" scaries me :-S
Re: Malaga Named as Location for 2005 KDE Conferen - Víctor Fernández - 2005-02-03
To clarify for non-spanish people, Seville is close to Málaga (around 100km away if I don't remember bad). And in Málaga it doesn't rain usually too.
Re: Malaga Named as Location for 2005 KDE Conferen - fernando - 2005-02-10
225Km away from Sevilla, and 100Km away from Granada. Hearonly rain from winter.
Great news - Anonymous - 2005-02-02
That's great news! Many, many people in Spain love KDE :-) Thanks to all KDE developers and contributors for their hard work!
RE: - I_LOVE_KDE - 2005-02-02
Is there anybody we can reffer to for helping us getting visas for Spain ?? (We are from Serbia)
RE: - Anonymous - 2005-02-02
Visa spam already starts? You will get no invitation if you're not known as KDE contributor.
Good idea - cinefilo - 2005-02-03
I´m from Malaga and very well because I hope help in organization with Linux-Malaga :) Congratulations to Antonio Larrosa.
KDE/FreeBSD - anonymous - 2005-02-11
Anyone coming from the KDE/FreeBSD team?
Andalucia - Anonymous - 2005-02-11
For those who have never been in Andalucia: 1) The sun is shining almost everyday in the summer, so be prepared for that! 2) Most people in Andalucia is monolingual. They speak another kind of Spanish (they eat consonants among other things). Sometimes is like are they talking in Spanish or what? 3) The people there is kind of funny and love to party all night-long. 4) They've got bullfights and flamenco (kind of folk music). 5) Some people think that Spain is Andalucia. Wrong! Every region is different. It's much like other parts of Europe (full of contrasts). 6) I don't have anything against Malaga but there are much more beautiful cities in Andalucia (and cleaner too) like Granada; there you can visit the Alhambra (a famous Arabian monument), the mountains (Sierra Nevada), ... and many other places. Did you know that Andalucia is bigger than Switzerland? 7) Enjoy your stay! :)
Re: Andalucia - Ian Monroe - 2005-02-21
Is Granada really cleaner then Malaga? At least the air in Granada was very dirty when I was there, apparently they have the highest per-capita Vespa/Moped usage in Spain. Haven't been to Malaga. I agree, Granada is a good place to visit though. I was there for a couple of weeks taking Spanish classes, but still didn't get to do everything I wanted.