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List:       kde-events
Subject:    Re: [Kde-events] KDE events: London Linux Expo 2001 and KDE @ LinuxTag
From:       Torsten Rahn <tackat () suse ! de>
Date:       2001-07-11 23:30:47
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Andreas Pour wrote:
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> Torsten Rahn wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > Ok, third draft.
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> Nice job, Torsten!  I have moved a paragraph around, edited a bit for

Credits go to Christian Steinr=FCcken, Eva Brucherseifer and Martin Konol=
d
(and of course to me ;^) who did most of the work :-)

Judging from the diminishing amount of feedback I think Andreas can send
his latest version to dot.kde.org and linuxtoday.com.

IMHO the "author" of this article should be the "kde-event team" if
possible (although the content is mostly based on eva's and my work).

Greetings,
Tackat





> grammar, added a bunch of links and converted
> to pure HTML.  Attached.
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> Ciao,
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> Dre
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>     ---------------------------------------------------------------
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> DATELINE JULY 11, 2001
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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>                        KDE Report: LinuxTag 2001
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> Sixty KDE Developers Converge on Stuttgard, Germany for LinuxTag 2001
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> July 8, 2001 (Stuttgart, Germany). More than 60 KDE-developers from
> all over the world gathered at the KDE booth during LinuxTag 2001.
> Among them were KDE developers from the United States, Austria, the
> Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Special guest-star from the
> US was Noatun-developer Charles Samuels, who will probably release
> KJetLag (which consists of lots of sleep() calls) soon after he
> returns to the US this week ;-).
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> On six TFT equipped demopoints, KDE developers displayed the latest
> stable version of the award-winning KDE desktop, the KOffice office
> suite and the KDevelop development IDE. They also offered a preview of
> KDE 2.2 Beta 1, KDevelop 3.0 pre-alpha (a/k/a Gideon) and Reaktivate.
> The latter enables Konqueror, the KDE web browser and file manager, to
> embed ActiveX controls, such as the popular Shockwave movies, for
> which to date no native Linux/Unix solution exists. The well decorated
> and overcrowded 24 square meter KDE booth and its crew enjoyed the
> feedback and interest of several thousand visitors, among which
> remarkably many stopped by to talk to the KDE women team.
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> On Thursday Margareta Wolf, State Secretary of the German Federal
> Ministry of Economics and Technology, expressed her interest when she
> obtained information on current issues concerning Linux and the KDE
> project, but also shared here concerns about pending patent
> legislation in the EU and its potential impact on the development of
> Open Source Software.
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> The event was highlighted with several KDE-related lectures. These
> included a presentation on "Universal Components" by KDE founder
> Matthias Ettrich; a tutorial on "Developing a GUI Using Qt" by Jesper
> K. Pedersen of Klar=E4lvdalens Datakonsult AB; a presentation on "aRts
> und Brahms - Multimedia in KDE 2.x" by Jan W=FCrthner and Stefan
> Westerfeld; and, last but not least, a presentation entitled "KDE 2.2
> - Your Personal Desktop", by KDevelop developer Ralf Nolden.
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> In addition to the lectures, developers hosted several workshops on
> KDE development. Particularly noteworthy was Michael Goffioul's
> presentation on CUPS and the KDEPrint System, of which a KPresenter
> slide show is available for download.
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> A considerable number of well known representatives of the Linux
> community attended the KDE booth, including people from Prolinux,
> LinuxUser and LinuxMagazin, and Tuomas Kuosmanen (a/k/a "TigerT"). Rob
> Malda (a/k/a CmdrTaco of Slashdot fame), frequently popped by the KDE
> booth and proudly displayed the latest KDE beta on his laptop.
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> Several sets of photos from the event and the KDE booth are available:
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>    * Tackat's photos
>    * Rob Kaper's photos
>    * LinuxTag team photos
>    * Winfried Tr=FCmper's photos (KDE photos)
>    * Deti Fliegl's photos
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> The KDE-events-team would like to thank all KDE-developers and people
> who contributed to the event for once more making LinuxTag 2001 a huge
> success for KDE. Specifically we'd like to thank:
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>    * Klar=E4lvdalens Datakonsult AB, TrollTech AS and others for
>      providing the admission charge for the LinuxTag social event;
>    * SuSE for providing the five TFT monitors, hotel rooms and
>      miscellaneous hardware;
>    * The KDE League for paying for promotion material and KDE
>      t-shirts;
>    * RedHat for supplying three demo points; and
>    * Frontsite for the "dragon food";
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> and of course we'd like to thank the people who organized LinuxTag
> 2001.
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> About LinuxTag
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> LinuxTag is the largest Linux and Open Source exhibition in Europe.
> This year 15,000 visitors and 110 exhibitors (among them more than 30
> free software projects) attended. The event was hosted in Stuttgart,
> Germany from July 5 through July 8.
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> About KDE
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> KDE is an independent, collaborative project by hundreds of developers
> worldwide to create a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop
> environment employing a component-based, network-transparent
> architecture. KDE is working proof of the power of the Open Source
> "Bazaar-style" software development model to create first-rate
> technologies on par with and superior to even the most complex
> commercial software.
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> Please visit the KDE family of web sites for the KDE FAQ, screenshots,
> KOffice information, developer information and a developer's KDE 1 -
> KDE 2 porting guide. Much more information about KDE is available from
> KDE's web site.

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