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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] LinuxFest Northwest
From:       Chani <chanika () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-03-31 20:16:18
Message-ID: 200903311316.25091.chanika () gmail ! com
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> This is from a kde-promo post I did a while back:
> [Based on the possibility that the KDE team might do several
> presentations]...
>
> "Presentation series (this is a tech conference so people will be
> interested in details)
>     Introduction to KDE 4
>     KDE 4 technical background, design, architecture
>     plasma/widgets
>     APIs and frameworks (several presentations)
>     contributing - to KDE; maybe hands-on building Plasma widgets"
>
> There will be people in attendance who are new to Linux and open
> source. There will be some, a little more sophisticated, who are aware
> that there are different desktop environments; and some who are
> familiar with Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc.
>
> There will be a preponderance of technical people. As above, there are
> ranges of skills, specialties, background, opinion. The people at my
> KDE4 blug presentation really sat up when the conversation turned to
> Phonon, Solid...the gears of KDE4.
>
> There will be some people who would like to develop widgets if they
> found out how and why. There will be some who are potential KDE
> contributors.

:) well, writing plasmoids is something I can talk about.
I'm thinking I'll expand my javascript plasmoid thing, add explanations of 
making a config dialog, formfactors, the Plasma Way of doing certain things, 
etc...


> A presentation that addresses any of these areas will fly.
> Important--this is an event attended primarily by technical people.
> Marketing fluff won't cut it.

good, I was never very good at fluff ;)

>
> Please don't get to worked up about the Wednesday deadline. The Fest
> can accommodate many more presentations. I've already told the
> schedulers that KDE will exhibiting and presenting.
>
> If that seems to be true to y'all, would someone please register?
> http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/present.html
> AND
> http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/exhibit.html

hmm. I'm looking at 
http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/dxp/register.dxp?type=Presenter
and.. hmm. it wants a "short biography"? ... I'm not quite sure what to put in 
there.

>
> That will hold a place. Fill in whatever is known at the present. Use
> a general title (example - KDE 4--Desktop of the Year), and a
> similarly general description. Say in the description how you are
> associated with KDE.
>
> Make it simple. LFNW is far on the informal end of the tie<->t-shirt scale.

yay :)

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