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Subject:    [kde-promo] Re: November 24-26 Paris Conference - IMPORTANT
From:       Charles de Miramon <cmiramon () kde-france ! org>
Date:       2003-10-17 19:12:26
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Le Vendredi 17 Octobre 2003 18:47, vous avez écrit :
> Dear Charles de Miramon
> 
> As director of MERIT at the University of Maastricht, I would like to
> inform you that we are no longer organising the conference on the topic of
> Open Standards and Libre Software in Government at UNESCO Paris, November
> 24-26, 2003. Until now, MERIT was responsible for the logistics and through
> the FLOSSPOLS project, EC funding for the conference. This is now wholly
> withdrawn.
> 
> We have taken this decision in consultation with the European Commission,
> whose support for this conference was earlier being provided through the
> proposed FLOSSPOLS project at MERIT.
> 
> We sincerely regret the inconvenience this may cause you. For more
> information please contact us by e-mail at nov2003@infonomics.nl
> 

Dear professor Soete,

I'm sorry to hear about the mess around the Unesco conference. On behalf of 
the KDE promotion team, I would like to take this opportunity to express our 
interest in working in the future with the European Commission and the MERIT 
project.

I know that the European Commission (and maybe your project) can finance 
trans-european workshop for spreading  new technologies and best practices 
around their members states. I think the KDE project fully qualifies to be 
the object of a workshop. 

We have great free software products :

- a world class business desktop (http://www.kde.org)
- a companion groupware server : the Kolab server (http://kroupware.org/news/
pr-20030725.html)

The KDE promotion team is trying to make our technological solutions known to 
the IT community beyond the core of the Gnu / Linux fans. A workshop on KDE  
organized in Maastricht by the MERIT project for IT specialists in  
government agencies in the different European countries would certainly be a 
fruitful occasion to reach a new population and give them practical 
information how to implement a Free software desktop to change their 
organization and help them make the right decisions.

Our products have made huge progresses during the last years and our new 
version (3.2) scheduled for the start of 2004 will bring numerous new 
features for the professionnal desktop user. This rapid pace of development 
means that a large number of people are still unaware of the power and ease 
of use of KDE and still believes that it is impossible to use Gnu / Linux on 
the desktop. A workshop would be a good opportunity for the IT community to 
understand how the KDE project is structured and how it is evolving.

It is also important for our developer community to get some feedback from big 
users of information technology to better adapt our product to their needs. 
We would like to foster an early-adopter community around Europe to help in 
testing, polishing, bug-hunting, criticising...

I would add that Maastricht is, in my point of view, a good location for 
organizing such a workshop when a large part of our core developers are 
working in the Netherlands or in Germany.

I'm looking forward to create a working relationship between the Merit project 
and the KDE community

Met vriendelijke groet,
Dr. Charles de Miramon

PS : I'm forwarding a carbon coby of this e-mail to the KDE promotion mailing 
list
-- 
cmiramon@kde-france.org
http://www.kde-france.org

 
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