Re: conf.kde.in 2014 details

Hi Jos,

It would help to have a dot article. We have couple of more talks that
should be added sometime this week. Or else everything is good to be
published. Thanks a  lot for asking and helping.

Regards,

Pradeepto

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Jos Poortvliet <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
> This needs a dot article, right...



-- 
Pradeepto Kumar Bhattacharya
KDE e.V. Board of Director | Proud KDE Contributor
The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org

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