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Subject:    [kde-promo]  Announcing the Desktop Summit 2010
From:       Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-10-05 22:13:03
Message-ID: 201010060013.07664.jospoortvliet () gmail ! com
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Hi dear GNOME and KDE friends,

Tomorrow around 1400 Berlin/Amsterdam/Paris time or 12:00 UTC the Desktop Summit \
webpage will go online and we'd like to send out press announcements. The press \
announcement is attached, would you be willing to send it to your press contacts?

The GNOME news site, KDE's DOT and the  KDE e.V. and GNOME Foundation sites will all \
feature content on this. Please spread the word!

More over, all promo/marketing folks : If you want to help with the promo surrounding \
the desktop summit, please subscribe to the Desktop Summit Marketing Mailinglist:

https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/ds-marketing

Note that we NEED HELP so think about joining :D

Note that the tag for the Desktop Summit will be #DS2011 on flickr, identi.ca \
etcetera!

Thank you,

Jos Poortvliet


["desktop summit announcement.txt" (text/plain)]

DESKTOP SUMMIT 2011 from 6 till 12 August in Berlin

Berlin, 5th October, 2010 - The Desktop Summit is a co-located event which features \
the yearly contributor conferences of the GNOME and KDE communities, GUADEC and \
Akademy. Next year the conference will take place from 6 to 12 August, 2011  in the \
city center of Berlin at the Humboldt University, Unter den Linden. The event will \
feature keynotes, talks, workshops and team building events.

The GNOME and KDE communities develop the majority of Free Software desktop \
technology. Increasingly, they cooperate on underlying infrastructure. By holding \
their annual developer flagship events in the same location, the two projects hope to \
foster collaboration and discussion between their developer communities. Furthermore, \
KDE and GNOME aim to work more closely with the rest of the desktop and mobile open \
source community. The summit presents a unique opportunity for main actors to work \
together and improve the free and open source desktop for all.

Almuth Nehring-Venus, Permanent Secretary for Economics, Technology and Women?s \
Issues, Berlin Senate:

"We are proud to be able to welcome the participants of the Desktop Summit 2011 to \
the capital region next year. I hope that the joint conference of the two largest \
Free Desktop projects GNOME and KDE will provide an  additional boost for our Open \
Source/Open Standard initiative within the framework of Berlin?s IT strategy and \
therefore also to further  high-value jobs in our region." At the Desktop Summit \
2011, KDE and GNOME expect well over a thousand core  contributors, prominent open \
source technology leaders, representatives from government, education and corporate \
backgrounds, and hundreds of open source desktop engineers, usability experts and \
designers. At the Desktop Summit 2011 KDE and GNOME expect well over a thousand core \
contributors, prominent open source technology leaders, government, education and \
corporate representatives and hundreds of open source desktop engineers, usability \
experts and designers. Local and international IT industry are invited to learn about \
and join in developing the latest innovative desktop technology. The event is locally \
supported by the TSB Innovation Agency Berlin GmbH and the Berlin Senate. 

The registration for the Desktop Summit will open on 1 February 2011 and a call for \
papers will be issued. Talk submissions will be due on 15th of March and on 15 April \
the conference program will be announced. Saturday  6 August kicks off 3 days of \
joint keynotes, talks and social events  followed by four days of collaborative \
workshops. The conference  officially ends on Friday, 12 August.

About the Desktop Summit:

The Desktop Summit is a joint initiative by GNOME and KDE to encourage the \
development and use of a free desktop. The shared objectives include the exchange of \
technology, cooperation on projects and developing new opportunities with Free and \
Open Source  Software on the desktop.

The first Desktop Summit in 2009 was a huge success: More than 850 free software \
advocates from 46 countries gathered together in Las Palmas on Gran Canaria to \
discuss and enhance the free desktop experience. The summit accomplished its goal of \
increasing co-operation and throughout the conference there were many examples of \
improvements to current and development of new shared technologies.

About GNOME and the GNOME Foundation
 
GNOME is a  free-software project whose goal is to develop a complete, accessible and \
easy to use desktop for Linux and Unix-based operating systems. GNOME also includes a \
complete development environment to create new applications. It is released twice a \
year on a regular schedule.  
The  GNOME desktop is used by millions of people around the world. GNOME is a  \
standard part of all leading GNU/Linux and Unix distributions, and is popular with \
both large existing corporate deployments and millions of  small business and home \
users worldwide.  
Composed of hundreds of volunteer developers and industry-leading companies, the \
GNOME Foundation is an organization committed to supporting the advancement of  \
GNOME. The Foundation is a member directed, non-profit organization that provides \
financial, organizational and legal support to the GNOME project and helps determine \
its vision and roadmap. More information about GNOME and the GNOME Foundation can be \
found at http://www.gnome.org and http://foundation.gnome.org.

About KDE and KDE e. V.

KDE is an international community that creates Free Software for desktop and  \
portable computing. Among KDE's products are innovative workspaces for  Linux and \
UNIX platforms, the KDE Platform for rapid development and a comprehensive range of \
applications. KDE offers hundreds of software  titles in many categories including \
communication and groupware, office  producitvity, web applications, multimedia, \
entertainment, education,  graphics and software development.

KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with  ease of use \
and modern accessibility principles in mind. Applications  built on KDE Platform 4 \
run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and  Mac OS X.

KDE e. V. is a nonprofit association that represents the international community \
supported KDE operating legally, financially and organizationally. More informations \
about KDE and KDE e. V. can be found at http://www.kde.org and http://ev.dke.org

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For further informations and interviews please contact us:

Offical contact Desktop Summit 2011:
Mirko Böhm, Spokesman
c/o KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH & Co. KG
Tempelhofer Ufer 11, D-10963 Berlin
phone +49 (0)30 - 5 21 32 54-70
http://www.desktopsummit.org

Press contact Desktop Summit (WORLD):
Jos Poortvliet, jos@opensuse.org
mobile +31(0)6 22 37 75 45

Press contact Desktop Summit (DACH):
Thomas Keup, thomas.keup@opencoffee.de
mobile +49(0)171 - 4 18 00 84

Organizer GNOME Foundation:
Stormy Peters, Executive Director
e-mail: stormy@gnome.org
http://foundation.gnome.org/

Organizer KDE e. V.:
Claudia Rauch, Business Manager
e-mail rauch@kde.org
http://ev.kde.org/


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