Re: conf.kde.in 2014 details

On Thursday 02 January 2014 23:00:21 Pradeepto Bhattacharya wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Happy new year to all. Please share and forward this email.
> 
> We are very excited to announce the second edition of conf.kde.in, the
> biggest KDE conference in India. This three day conference scheduled
> in February will bring together Qt developers, KDE contributors, open
> source enthusiasts and users from all across the nation. The event
> will give you the opportunity to learn, share, contribute, innovate
> and create while providing you endless possibilities with Qt/KDE
> technologies.
> 
> conf.kde.in is an excellent platform for you to learn about FOSS and
> start contributing to it. The participants will be introduced to the
> KDE community, and shall also be given an overview of the latest
> developments in it. The talks, interactive sessions shall help
> strengthen your basis and shall familiarize you with what it’s like to
> be a part of the KDE community and help you to contribute to KDE SC
> and maybe for future participation in programs like Google Summer of
> Code and Season of KDE. Last year, KDE was the largest participating
> organizing in GSoC with a selection of 60 students.The sessions will
> range from the beginner to the advanced level, to facilitate all kinds
> of participants.
> 
> 
> *Talks*
> 
> 
> There shall be a vibrant gamut of talks at the event; ranging over a
> variety of technical as well as non technical talks covered by members
> of the KDE community from the extremes of India as well as the world.
> Be a witness to this cultural as well as intellectual infusion of
> ideas and experiences, of knowledge and guidance; by people from
> different walks of life, all with a common passion - open source, KDE;
> ready to ignite the same passion in you through their words and their
> minds.
> 
> 
> 1. How I got involved in KDE and How to attack a problem - Sujith H
> 
> 2. Hacking on KStars: Progress and challenges - Rishab Arora
> 
> 3. One app to rule all your media - Sinny Kumari
> 
> 4. KDE unlike a coconut - Smit Shah
> 
> 5. Plasma Workspace 2: Little introduction - Bhushan Shah
> 
> 6. Baloo - Metadata and Search - Vishesh Handa
> 
> 7. Cute (Qt) C++ idioms - Nikhil Marathe
> 
> 8. Qt Project - Frederik Gladhorn
> 
> 9. Language learning with KDE - Samikshan Bairagya
> 
> 10.Effective Open-Source Speech Recognition in Your Application - Peter
> Grasch
> 
> 11.Where KDE is and where it is going - Jos Poortvliet
> 
> 12. C++11: A Language Renaissance - Kévin Ottens
> 
> The above is the incomplete list of talks, we are adding more talks as
> we get confirmation from the speakers. The updated list of talks can
> be found at http://kde.in/conf/accepted-talks.
> 
> Every speaker at conf.kde.in is a bonafide contributor to KDE, some of
> them contributing over a decade. Attending the conference will give
> you the opportunity to meet seasoned open source contributors, discuss
> with them, exchange ideas with them, learn from them and also teach
> them something new.
> 
> Many of these contributors work for great companies (which themselves
> are involved in various open source projects) like Mozilla, openSUSE,
> Red Hat, Blue Systems, ThoughtWorks, KDAB, Digia etc. Also you will
> find that many of these contributors were students until recently.
> 
> *Wondering what KDE/Qt is?*
> 
> KDE is one of the largest international free software community. It
> has an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run
> on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and OS X systems.
> KDE is known for its Plasma Workspace, an environment provided as the
> default working environment on many Linux distributions, such as
> Kubuntu, Pardus, and openSUSE.
> 
> To find more information about KDE, please visit  http://www.kde.org/
> 
> Qt is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used for
> developing application software with a graphical user interface (GUI)
> and also used for developing non-GUI programs  such as command- line
> tools and consoles for servers. Qt is most notably used in Adobe
> Photoshop Elements, Skype, VLC media player, VirtualBox, Dassault
> DraftSight and Mathematica, and by the European Space Agency,
> DreamWorks, Google, HP, KDE, Lucasfilm, Autodesk Maya, The Foundry's
> Nuke, Panasonic, Philips, Blackberry applications, Samsung, Siemens,
> Volvo, Walt Disney, Animation Studios and Research In Motion. Qt runs
> on multiple platforms which include Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, Embedded
> Linux, Blackberry 10, Android, Sailfish and Ubuntu Phone OS.
> 
> 
> To find more information about Qt, please visit  http://qt-project.org/
> 
> 
> *Details about conf.kde.in*:
> 
> Venue:   Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication
> Technology, Gandhinagar
> 
> Date:      21st - 23rd Feb, 2014
> Time:     9 AM - 6:30 PM
> 
> The registrations for the conference are now open. Please register
> yourself here (http://cki2014.doattend.com/) and avail the “Early
> Bird” discount till 15th Jan. There are limited seats so hurry up! You
> will find accommodation options at http://conf.kde.in/accommodation.
> 
> We are working very hard to make conf.kde.in 2014 a huge success. And
> it will happen with the help of your participation. Looking forward to
> meet you all. Stay tuned for regular updates about this event on our
> Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/kdeindia) / Twitter
> (https://twitter.com/kdeindia) page.
> 
> For any queries, feel free to reach us at [email protected]
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Pradeepto

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