[kde-announce] EVENT: KDE at LinuxWorld NYC, Jan 21 - 23

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By Mark Bucciarelli

The preparations for the KDE presence at the upcoming LinuxWorld NYC are now 
complete. It should be a blast! We have ten KDE volunteers staffing the 
booth, some great demo hardware (generously provided by SUSE), a seven-foot 
banner, Kolab Server/KDE Groupware demos on a 21" LCD (provided by Ian 
Reinhart Geiser), and a laptop we will give away to one lucky booth visitor. 
It is also worth a mention that KDE has been named finalist in two categories 
of the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards: Best Open Source Project and 
Best Development Tool (KDevelop). The North American PR momentum continues to 
grow!

On the technical side, in addition to the two SUSE machines running KDE 3.2, 
Ian Reinhart Geiser will have a minicube with Debian unstable and XFree 4.3 
and have demos for: 

* KDE Groupware with Kolab and SourceExtreme's Kolab connector
* KDevelop 3.0 and Quanta
* KConfigXT, KDE EDU, KDE Desktop Services, and KJSEmbed
 
All this in addition to general Q&A on KDE deployment and development in 
companies. 

Sticking with the KJSEmbed theme, on Thursday George Staikos will present a 
talk on desktop scripting (KJSEmbed, DCOP, and other fun stuff) that is only 
available to people with conference passes. 

In addition to the technical demos, we also have a bit of press relations set 
up. George will be doing a 15 minute SysCon radio show on "What's New in 3.2" 
and Brian Proffitt (managing editor at Linux Today) will stop by on Wednesday 
to get an update on progress on the Conquering the Enterprise Desktop 
initiative. 

A final note of thanks to Nathan Krause at NALeKRA. He approached the KDE e.V. 
with an offer of thanks for all the great work done on KDE, and as a token of 
his appreciation he donated a laptop to KDE that we will give away at the 
booth. Thanks Nathan! 

If you are going to the show, be sure to stop by and say hello!

Links:
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn?ID=10240
http://www.nalekra.com

[E-mail:mark@hubcapconsulting.com]
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