Fwd: [aKademy] Invitation to Skolelinux Development Team members.
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Hi all,
we recently received an invitation to send a Skolelinux-delegation to the
yearly KDE-developper gathering which will take place 21-29 of August in
Ludwigsburg (near Stuttgart/Germany).
They've reserved 5 places for Skolelinux project members, on the same terms
as the KDE developers :-)
(If their's more then five people of us interested in going, we'll need to
look at how to get everyone a place, people actively involved with KDE,
such as translators, qualify for one of the slots reserved for
KDE-contributors).
The conference organizers need to now how many people to expect by the end
of April. So if you're interested, please reply as soon as possible.
I for one I'm interested, who else?
Also keep the CC, so or KDE-contact can follow the discussion.
Those interested please read the forwarded message below:
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Subject: [aKademy] Invitation to Skolelinux Development Team members.
Date: 2004-04-10 20:07
From: "Kurt Pfeifle" <kpfeifle@danka.de>
Dear Skolelinux Team Members,
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
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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'd like to also invite delegates from the Skolelinux development 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...
We believe that the initial success of Skolelinux is in part due to the
fact that you use KDE technology. But we also believe that the bulk of
work you had to put into Skolelinux to make it what it is now is due
to the inefficiencies of KDE technoloty ;-)
So aKademy should be a good chance to get an intense interaction going
between developers from the 2 projects. We can learn a lot from you and
you can help improve KDE by contributing from your experiences and
explain to us what your needs are.
Likely, you will also be able to see during aKademy the first public
presentations of 2 new killer technologies, deeply builtin to KDE's
infrastructure and shipping with future KDE versions:
* Kiosk mode with a GUI (to remotely administrate user profiles and
store them in a central database)
* NX compression technology (which allows you to run a fullscreen
KDE Terminal Client session with less than 40 kBits/sec bandwidth,
i.e. across a modem link!)
Both of these will directly benefit Skolelinux in its "classical"
environments acting as Terminal Servers and Clients.
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 developers
from the KDE programs you work on and personally discuss with them your
ideas. You can do a lot of more stuff for the advance of KDE and
Skolelinux which I don't know about because *you* are the experts!
Please do also consider to submit talks and presentations for the 2
conferences (Developer and User). (Calls for Papers due to be published
next week).
You would halp the organizers a lot if you can indicate as early as
possible what you plan and how many of you intend to come (ask around
in IRC for quick results?).
Please discuss in your team(s) how many delegates you would like to
send. (Please consider, that some of you are already active KDE
contributors doe to their translation and documentation work and that
these may come on the respective KDE contributor "tickets".
Since normally long-standing KDE contributors are more prioritized
in case there will be overbookings of conference seats, this could
lead to a situation where Skolelinux delegates could "miss the boat".
We don't want that because we highly appreciate the work you all do and
therefore we plan to reserve a small contingent of seats to Skolelinux
delegates. However, you yourself should be sorting out whom you send,
should there be a "run" onto the 5 reserved seats....
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 will only get 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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cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis):
Coördinator Belgisch Skolelinux team
Coördinator Nederlandse Skolelinux vertaling
Skolelinux België- http://i18n.skolelinux.no/belgium
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