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2002
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KDE Reports from LinuxTag 2002A full report by Daniel Molkentin follows. LinuxTag 2002 is over, but the memories will remain: about 40 KDE developers Report: KDE at LinuxTag 2002 June, 9th (Karlsruhe, Germany). This year's LinuxTag was once again a successful gathering for over sixty KDE developers from all over Europe who presented their award-winning desktop environment to more than 13,000 interested visitors at "Europe's largest OpenSource Event". As a special guest, David Faure (of Konqueror and KOffice fame) attended the fair to share opinions with On six dedicated demopoints, the LinuxTag visitors were invited to learn about the current KDE 3.0.1 release, Personal Information Management (KDE Pim), the KDE Edutainment project, the award-winning KDevelop IDE as well the future of KDE. The Opie Team showed their impressive achievements on syncing KDE with their amazing handheld environment. In addition to the demopoints, the booth provided a hacking area where KDE Developers fixed bugs and implemented new features suggested In direct neighbourhood of our booth, KDE's Kurt Pfeifle was among the staff of the Linux Printing booth. He presented KDEPrint using an Apple Powerbook running KDE on top of MacOS X. By employing CUPS and the Internet Printing Protocol, Kurt showed the ease of Linux printing to an astonished crowd. At the booth of the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), the KMail developers Marc Mutz and Ingo Klöcker and the employees of Klarälvdalens Datakonsult, Intevation and g10 code showed the latest version of Among the interested vistors was Brigitte Zypries, secretary of state who was especially interested in the KDE EDU Project. As a surprise, a team from the german TV station 3Sat came to portrait the Opie Project. It will be aired on Monday, Juni 17th in the TV show "Neues". In the free conference, Ralf Nolden's talk about "the enterprise desktop for the home user", Kurt Pfeifle's speech about "modern printing for a KEnterprise Desktop Environment" and Karl-Heinz Zimmer's talk about the Aegypten Project earned a vast amount of interest. Developers had the opportunity to attend the speeches of Jesper Pedersen about Qt Designer and Ralf Nolden who presented "Developing with KDevelop" in 3 different flavors: "beginner", "advanced" and "embedded". Martin Konold's speech "Escaping A large amount of photos have been taken by various developers:
Lots of fun and opportunities to meet and win new friends have been taken on- and offside the fairground guaranteeing the KDE project a healthy social basis for further successful cooperation and development. Last but not least, the KDE LinuxTag team would like to thank the following companies for their support:
The KDE Team is looking forward to LinuxTag 2003 hoping it will be as successful and nice as all LinuxTag events have been up to now. Thanks again to all the sponsors and visitors. See you in 2003! |
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Comments
Thanks for the report
Good to hear how well things go over there in Europe. Thanks for the report!
Rob: Those aren't tigers. They are leopards. Come over here and you can see them in the wild. ;-) Elephants and giraffes, too.
Uwe
Re: Thanks for the report
And that cute thing with the black eye patches is a meerkat, isn't it? (I know it's one of the O'Reilly animals.)
Uwe probably knows....
Re: Thanks for the report
Okay, fixed both the tiger and meerkat annotations. If anyone has more anecdotes that match the pictures, let me know!
More photos...
... are linked at media.linuxtag.org . I hope someone has a high detail photo of all developers grouped?
Outlook trap?
"Martin Konold's speech "Escaping from the Outlook trap" contained some very interesting plans for the future of personal information management with Linux/KDE targeting both server and client side."
I'd be interested to know more about this... any transcripts?
Re: Outlook trap?
http://www.erfrakon.de/vortrag/LinuxTag2002/index.html
(German only, sorry)
Grilled Tux
Where can i find this grilled Tux picture which was part of the keynote ?
I can't remember the URL :(
Re: Grilled Tux
It was created by Agnieszka Czajkowska (www.imagegalaxy.de), but I don't think you can find it there. But of course all images are contained in the keynote presentation available at http://www.klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se/Public/publications/keynote-linu....