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:

Ian Geiser and I traveled to Monterrey, Mexico to attend the KDE booth in the ExpoLinux 2004 Business Summit (1st to 3rd November). The Expo was located in a place called Cintermex, specially adapted for conferences and expos. There were like 25 booths with local business showing business solutions. The biggers being Novell, IBM and Hewlett Packard. We were in a normal booth, and the fact that ours was one of the most visited was very interesting.

During 13th and 14th October KDE-NL was present at LinuxWorld in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Bas Grolleman, a member of the Dutch KDE community wrote an account of the event. Here on the Dot is a translation of that account.

For the past year and a half, I've been a co-sponsor of the KDE Quanta+ project helping Eric, Andras and the entire Quanta+ team deliver one of the best web development applications in the world -- Free or otherwise. It has been my pleasure and an honor to be part of bringing Quanta+ to you.

During October a lot of conferences and events in Germany will take place
where KDE will be present. The KDE Project is still in urgent need for some

Last week saw the first LinuxWorld Conference & Expo franchise in London. Representing the KDE project were Jonathan Riddell (Umbrello), Jeff Snyder (Kompare), Richard Smith (Kopete), George Wright (KLatin), Martijn Dekkers, Ben Lamb and David Pashley (on the Debian stand).

This week Linux World Expo comes to the Netherlands where KDE-NL will showcase the enterprise features of the KDE desktop. The event wil take place at Jaarbeurs Utrecht and can be easily reached by train and car. Our laptops with KDE are kindly sponsored by IT provider KovoKs.

KDE will be present at Berlinux 2004 which takes place on 22nd and 23rd October in Berlin's technical university. Among the talks will be also one about KDE as enterprise desktop (in German).