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aKademy Team Announces International Lineup 83

Posted by michael from the free-software-olympics dept.
Telex4 writes "The aKademy Team is proud to announce the schedules for the KDE Community World Summit 2004, code-named 'aKademy', taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany from August 21st to 29th. Featuring speakers from IBM, Novell, SUSE, Conectiva, Trolltech, HP and many community hackers and activists, it promises to be a highlight of the Free Software calendar. With presentations both for developers and users, tutorials from the experts in their field, and plenty of opportunities to discuss significant issues like usability and Qt4/KDE4, you can't afford to miss it. For more information, you can read the full announcement. Go to the conference web site and register now to avoid disappointment!"
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  • I can't attend the conference, but I certainly am looking forward to the simultaneous release [kde.org] of KDE 3.3. It promises to be great, with lots of bugfixes and new features [kde.org], like groupware support for kontact.

    • Looking forward to this.... (Score:5, Interesting)

      by reality-bytes ( 119275 ) on Friday July 23, 2004 @08:04PM (#9785412) Homepage
      We've been gradually weening a few customers from Exchange etc over the last few months and continued development of Kontact/Kolab/OpenGroupware only helps us.

      We get a real feeling of 'security' with open-souce groupware; we know where we stand and can get support/patches in a hurry if we know which buttons to press. In emergencies, we can even sub-contract developers to make patches for us!

      The only thing that suprises me is that open-source groupware hasn't come further than it has in recent years.
      • We've been gradually weening a few customers from Exchange etc over the last few months and continued development of Kontact/Kolab/OpenGroupware only helps us.

        Do you find a lot of user resistance or strange incompatibilities in the process? Do the "Outlook" users find that OpenGroupware works well enough/as well/better than Exchange for them?

        • In terms of Outlook users, we found little by way of user resistance, in some cases it was like we slipped it into the customers drink (the ease with which we migrated people).

          Unfortunately, things are not so easy when it comes to Office and Productivity suites. There are still little quirks of some software that *some* users will not let go of.
        • I'm a software developer and my last project was to create OpenGroupware-to-Outlook connector. So I had to become very familiar with OpenGroupware internals.

          Well, OpenGroupware SUCKS. Its web-interface is hard to use and slow - you need to make 3 clicks just to mark job as "Done", contacts management is even worse.

          OpenGroupware server is hard to install and use - there is no good Debian/RPM packages, so you have to read tons of HOWTOs.

          From developer perspective OpenGroupware is a nightmare. XMLRPC int

  • What, no SCO speakers? (Score:3, Funny)

    by GrueMaster ( 579195 ) on Friday July 23, 2004 @07:00PM (#9784992)
    Where's the Darl when you need him?

  • also for newbies? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by toetagger1 ( 795806 ) on Friday July 23, 2004 @07:04PM (#9785011)
    Is this an event that could potentially be used to bring my friends who I want to convince to switch to Linux, of is this only for hardcore users?
    • It's for anyone who wishes to attend. From the conference website [kde.org]:

      Who is it for?

      The event is of high interest for

      * all active KDE contributors: programmers, artists, documentation writers, translators, promotors and other supporters,
      * most KDE power users,
      * as well the general public interested in Linux and Unix desktop systems.

      All of them will find many very interesting topics covered here. They are all invited to come, attend and participate in our discussions and work.

    • Re:also for newbies? (Score:2, Interesting)

      by NetNifty ( 796376 )
      Sounds like it from : "Tutorials and trainings by experienced instructors" and: "Who is it for? The event is of high interest for * all active KDE contributors: programmers, artists, documentation writers, translators, promotors and other supporters, * most KDE power users, * as well the general public interested in Linux and Unix desktop systems."

    • Re:also for newbies? (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Homology ( 639438 )
      Is this an event that could potentially be used to bring my friends who I want to convince to switch to Linux, of is this only for hardcore users?

      KDE runs just fine on *BSD as well. In fact, I'm using KDE on OpenBSD. Just in case you are considering other free alternatives to Linux :-)

  • See Also - dot.kde.org (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 23, 2004 @07:10PM (#9785071)
    Trolltech and the KDE E.v have announced a supplemental agreement to the KDE Free Qt Foundation. [kde.org] Might this fortell some maneuvers behind an upcomping Trolltech corporate purchase or merger? OTOH, perhaps this is only to reassert the agreement given Qt4's reengineered library structure (the new library will have core and utility classes split out from GUI classes), but some of the language could be interpreted as relieving fears of a would-be Trolltech corporate suitor. Stay tuned. It should be a very exciting summer/early fall for KDE and Trolltech.
  • Why isn't Microsoft hireing these people?

    I don't understand why this is not happening. It would pretty much end their "problem" with people changeing to Desktop Linux.

    (playing Devil's Advicate of course, I really hope this doesn't happen)

    • Some of them have a good job. Most people I know are not willing to pick up their family and move to washington when they already have a job that pays enough. Remember, that means the wife (sadly female programmers are rare enough that I don't count them) needs to quit her job too. that means leaving the grand parents, and friends behind.

      If MS had offered me a job 6 months ago when I was looking I would have been forced to re-consider. Now however I'm making enough money. I'll take a new job around

    • Who says hiring them would stop them? Most of KDE's work was done by people playing around on nights and weekends.

      (That's of course why so many ex-MS customers prefer GNOME -- they prefer something backed by a big corporation -- but that's another matter)

      Microsoft would try some special employment contracts, I'm sure, but it'd take a lot of money to hire up every KDE contributor for enough money to buy their loyalty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, just to see new contributors spring up to replace them.

      Bu

      • That's of course why so many ex-MS customers prefer GNOME -- they prefer something backed by a big corporation

        What "big corporation" would that be? Novell? They support KDE as well! Everybody constantly says how corporations are switching to Gnome, whereas some individual users are the ones using KDE. But I don't see that happening. I see companies switching to Gnome, but I see them switching to KDE as well. I don't think Gnome has that much bigger market-share with corporates than KDE has. Hell, KDE migh

        • The big corporation would be Sun. Back in the day, so many slashdot posters were saying KDE is dead because it doesn't have backing of someone like Sun.

          What market, by the way? To my knowledge, KDE and GNOME give everything away. There is no economic transaction involved.

          • The big corporation would be Sun.

            Sun supports their Java desktop (which is based on Gnome). I don't think they offer any official support to regural Gnome. And Gnome doesn't really advertise their desktop as "Now with Sun backing!".

            And besides, looking at Suns Linux-related comments, I'm not sure that is having Sun aboard an asset or a liability.

            What market, by the way?

            Corporate users. In this case it simply refers to number of users. I was not talking about revenues and such. Just because I used wor

    • Well, because you see -- to hire someone they have to agree to it. Last I checked there's no provision for hiring people by force. ;-)

      Also, as opposed to the job climate for traditional development positions, believe it or not, core developers of large, well recognized OSS projects don't exactly have a hard time finding employment. When you could work for quite a few companies -- why would one chose to work for their "competitor"?

      Also, in addition to what was said in a later post, MS's development is ce
  • No.... What I can't afford is plane tickets to Germany and the time off work, you insensitive clod!

    (Yes I am just jealous-- I would love to go if I could)

  • Hackfest (Score:2, Insightful)

    by farley13 ( 773489 )
    Here's hoping KDE is actually better after the http://conference2004.kde.org/hackfest.php [kde.org] !

    That sounds like a good lotta fun! I wonder how many of the core dev. will be coding away ?
  • Try Ruby [ruby-lang.org] with the Korundum [rubyforge.org] bindings - example code is here [kde.org].

  • cheerleaders (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    boothbabes. hot ones. want me to switch, let's see the kde kutie korps. let's see 'em.

    might as well have a GOOD reason to do things, I always say.....
  • Through incredible luck (as opposed to planning) the last weekend of aKademy coincides with the first annual Software Freedom Day [softwarefreedomday.org] on August 28th, so the KDE people are throwing a big party [kde.org]! Anyone know if they plan to hand out Knoppix discs in the Stuttgart area as well?
    • So at least expect a newly released Knoppix-3.6 ISO image on the download servers for the time of aKademy! Sounds cool! We're working on our own Knoppix version now for SFD, but that will be based on v3.4. I doubt we'll have time to make a 3.6 version :-(

  • There's a lot more information about what will be going on at the KDE wiki at http://wiki.kde.org [kde.org]. There are plenty of opportunities to contribute, too - even if you're not a programmer or 'power user'. Take a look, for example at KDE Community World Summit [kde.org] under "Coding Marathon" for a list of teams that will be present.

    As an example, I'm on the documentation team, and we've got plenty planned. Check out KDE Documentation @ aKademy [kde.org] for more details.

    OK, that's enough advertising for one comment...

    Phil

  • All aKademy schedules (Score:1, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Here is an overview of what's goin' on at aKademy. You may say, these KDE-ers are crazy, trying to organize a full 9-day event, but here are the schedules:

    DevConf -- the Developers' and Contributors' Conference:
    http://conference2004.kde.org/sched-devconf.php [kde.org]

    Tutorials -- Fifteen One-Day Tutorials for IT Professionals with world class instructors:
    http://conference2004.kde.org/tutorials.php [kde.org]

    CodeMarathon -- the 5++ day, 24 hours Coding Marathon and Hackfest of KDE enthusiasts:
    http://conference2004. [kde.org]

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