Simon Edwards will be talking about KDE application development using Python in the FOSDEM KDE Developer's Room. In the interview below he talks about the advantages of Python, how it compares to other languages and whether KDE should be rewritten in Python.

Please introduce yourself and your role in KDE

Once again KDE will be exhibiting at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. This year the show has moved to the Hynes Convention Center in Boston and KDE can be found at booth .ORG#3. Drop by for a demo of KDE 3.3 or the latest 3.4 beta 2, and meet some of the east-coast US KDE hackers. The show floor is open from tomorrow (Tuesday Feb 15) until Thursday.

In the second in our series of interviews with speakers in the FOSDEM KDE developers room Scribus developers Craig Bradney and Peter Linnell talk about the state of desktop publishing on Unix and its acceptance in the commercial DTP World.

Please introduce yourself and your role in Scribus

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.

Solutions Linux is the annual Parisian Linux and Open Source exhibition. The event runs in the Cnit exhibition center in La Défense from February 1 to February 3. The KDE Team will have a booth in the Pavillon des associations.
Come to meet developers, translators and other KDE fellows and watch the upcoming KDE 3.4 demonstrations.

KDE.ie has been launched by the new KDE representative in Ireland, Barry O'Donovan. If you are a KDE developer, contributor and/or enthusiast in Ireland then please join the kde-ie mailing list. If you know of any KDE contribututors, commercial supporters or candidates for case studies please contact kde-ie.

Scott Wheeler and Sirtaj Singh Kang with much appreciated help from Kabir Husain represented KDE at this year's Linux Bangalore, India's largest Linux and Open Source event.

The speakers list for FOSDEM 2005 has been released with many great names including some prominent KDE developers like Matthias Ettrich, Alexander Dymo and Harald Fernengel. This year you can again submit your questions for interviews to be published later on the FOSDEM website.

During this summer while aKademy was filling our minds and consuming our time other things were cooking in the Dutch KDE community. Some people from KDE-NL, the Dutch KDE community, were offered the opportunity to write a book about Linux and KDE.

Sirtaj Singh Kang and I will be presenting talks at this year's Linux Bangalore conference at the Indian Institute for Science. The fair runs December 1 - 3 and will feature tracks on various topics including Linux on the desktop. I'll be doing a talk on searching and contextual linkage and Taj will be presenting a roadmap for KDE's future.

We will also have a KDE booth. Ideally this booth will contain more than Taj, myself and my laptop. This is where you come in.

Things we could use: