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).

Next week sees the Linux
World Expo (renamed from Linux Expo UK) in London's
Olympia where KDE are teaming up with Gnome to run one of the
biggest stands in the .org
village. As well as representing the desktop environments, we

Coming week the 4th edition of SANE will start, an international 5-day event on System Administration and Network Engineering. Wednesday evening 29th September, the Free Software Bazaar will take place which is part of SANE 2004. Bazaar is forming a bridge between the tutorials and the conference and is a perfect opportunity to meet software developers and get involved in these projects. This event takes place in the evening and it can be visited for free. Richard M.

A new KDE website has been launched! KDE.org.uk promotes the K Desktop Environment and showcases activities of KDE developers and contributors around the United Kingdom. If you want to help with creating more content on KDE.org.uk or get involved in KDE events in the UK, please contact the KDE.org.uk team.