Re: conf.kde.in 2014 details

On Thursday 09 January 2014 10:11:13 Pradeepto Bhattacharya wrote:
> 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.

Meanwhile, I was not aware that there's a deadline in there: the 15th for 
early bird registrations. I just finished the article:
http://dot.kde.org/2014/01/15/confkdein

(I shortened your mail a bit)

Sorry for the lateness. I think I should just publish it so people get at 
least half a chance still...

http://dot.kde.org/2014/01/15/first-talks-confkdein-public-registration-open

Hugs,
J

> 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...


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