From kde-i18n-doc Tue Apr 13 13:41:14 2004 From: Thomas Diehl Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:41:14 +0000 To: kde-i18n-doc Subject: Fwd: [aKademy] Invitation to the KDE Translation Teams. Message-Id: <200404131541.14267.thd () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-i18n-doc&m=108186352708855 ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Subject: [aKademy] Invitation to the KDE Translation Teams. Date: Samstag, 10. April 2004 18:17 From: "Kurt Pfeifle" To: Thomas Diehl [...] Dear KDE Translation Teams, as you may have read on the "dot" annuncement, we chose "KDE Community World Summit" to name our annual conference. Last year it was code-named "Kastle" (hinting to the fact that it was hosted in a former castle), this year it is "aKademy" (inspired by the facts that it will be hosted in the building of the "Filmakademie Ludwigsburg" -- "Academy for Movie Arts in Ludwigsburg", and that as a side-program it will also host a bunch of one-day tutorials led by world-class instructors). (These tutorials will have to be paid for and we aim to get them filled up with IT professionals and admins from companies and public sector administration of the local area. The tutorial income and profit will help to finance the overall "aKademy" events.) Ah -- you ask what these other events are? OK, here's the deal: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Event: KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy" ================================================ Event-Module 1: Conference of KDE Developers and Contributors 21st/22nd August Event-Module 2: Coding Marathon for KDE Developers and Contributors 23rd-27th August Event-Module 3: Ten Tutorials for KDE and Linux Users and Admins 23rd-27th August Event-Module 4: KDE User and Administrator Conference 28th/29th August Event-Module 5: Festival at "International Software FreedomDay" 28th August Date of full aKademy: August 21st to 29th Location: Filmakademie Ludwigsburg/Stuttgart Region, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------ More info is available at http://conference2004.kde.org/ (Bookmark this page, because there will be more announcements and infos forthcoming!) "aKademy" 2004 Program Overview ------------------------------- The KDE aKademy 2004 is a meeting of KDE contributors, active KDE supporters and KDE power users from all over the world. It will feature... ... a two-day "Conference for KDE Developers and Contributors" (21st/22nd) of primarily technical talks and mini-tutorials; ... followed by a five day "KDE Coding Marathon" (23rd - 27th) -- a big opportunity for interested groups of developers and contributors to gather together in computer labs for various organized and unorganized hacking sessions, spontaneous workshops, Birds-of-a-Feather meetings and KDE software design discussions until the following weekend; ... accompanied by five days of publically accessible general "Linux- and KDE Tutorials" (half- and full-day, 23rd - 27th), led by world-class instructors in their respective fields; ... followed by another weekend (28th/29th) for a public "2004 KDE User and Administrator Conference" at the same venue, where we will be showcasing all the exciting technologies and applications which make KDE the leading, most innovative and best integtative Korporate Desktop Environment.(See the separate Calls for Papers/Presentations and invitations for the different sub-events). All KDE developers, documentation writers, translators, promoters, other contributors as well as KDE power users should consider their active participation for the complete, or at least a part of this grand "2004 KDE Community World Summit". I invite your teams and its active and interested members to come and participate in "aKademy". We are especially pleased if you take the chance to put up a workshop/BoF/meeting/hackfest/discussion club/whatever during the week of the "Coding Marathon" (23rd to 27th of August). Of course, the "Contributors' and Developers' Conference" (21st/22nd of August) as well as the "User and Administrator Conference" (28th/29th of August) are also opportunities for you -- but you rather might prefer to listen to the talks and watch the presentations going on there than to conduct your Team's business. Translations of Doumentation and the User Interface are extremely important aspects to KDE and its success. This was true in the past and will be even more true in the future. aKademy will be a uniq opportunity for you to interact with each other and with people from other parts of the KDE project. You can now meet that one guy you know so well from IRC in person and finally drink that pint of beer you were so long talking about. You can meet active people from the new KDE Quality Teams and integrate them into your work. You can do a lot of more stuff for the advance of KDE translations to your $LOCALE which I don't know about because *you* are the experts! Please do also consider to submit talks for the 2 conferences (Developer and User). You would halp the organizers a lot if you would indicate as early as possible what you plan and how many of you intend to come (ask around in IRC for quick results). As soon as the registration is open (watch out for a "dot" article), please fill in the forms. If we know early on that the 200 International Youth Hostel beds we reserved are not enough we can look for more cheap accomodations. If we see we booked too many, we will cancel part of the pre-reservations and late birds won't get only much more expensive hotel beds. Thanks to you all, and I am looking forward to meet you in Ludwigsburg! Kurt Pfeifle ------------------------------------------------------------------ Co-Organizer of the KDE Communitiy World Summit 2004 ("aKaDEmy") http://conference2004.kde.org/ ------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- KDE translation: http://i18n.kde.org Deutsche KDE-Uebersetzung: http://i18n.kde.org/teams/de