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Subject:    Fwd: [aKademy] Invitation to the KDE Translation Teams.
From:       Thomas Diehl <thd () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-04-13 13:41:14
Message-ID: 200404131541.14267.thd () kde ! org
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Subject: [aKademy] Invitation to the KDE Translation Teams.
Date: Samstag, 10. April 2004 18:17
From: "Kurt Pfeifle" <kpfeifle@danka.de>
To: Thomas Diehl <thd@kde.org>

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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:


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  Event: KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy"
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 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

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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

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  Co-Organizer of the KDE Communitiy World Summit 2004 ("aKaDEmy")
  http://conference2004.kde.org/  ------------  <pfeifle@kde.org>
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