Re: Fwd: [aKademy] Invitation to Skolelinux Development Team members.
I am interested (i am too member of the french kde translation team).
regards
sam
Selon "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <cobaco@skolelinux.no>:
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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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