KDE/Gnome/Freedesktop.org Stall at Linux User Expo 2004
http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk/village.htm
Timetable
| Tuesday 5th October | 08:00 - 20:00 Setup | |
| Wednesday 6th October | 08:00 - 09:30 Exhibitors only | 09:30 - 17:00 Show Open |
| Thursday 7th October | 08:00 - 09:30 Exhibitors only | 09:30 - 16:00 Show Open |
People
| Name | IRC nick | email | Mobile | Tue 5th - setup day | Wed 6th | Thu 7th | Notes |
| Jonathan Riddell | Riddell | jr-AT-jriddell.org | 07941938912 | Yes | Yes | Yes | KDE Coordinator |
| Charles Samuels | njaard | [email protected] | 07717 053432 | ? | ? | ? | Arriving at UK on 22nd Sept |
| Jeff Snyder | je4d | [email protected] | 07748 983635 | ? | ? | ? | |
| George Wright | George | [email protected] | 07939 912 988 | No | Yes | Yes | Will have fairly recent CVS HEAD |
| Dafydd Harries | daf | daf at muse dot 19inch dot net | 07840555635 | ? | ? | ? | Will come if I can. |
| Ben Lamb | | kde-AT-zurgy.org | 07940 538948 | No | No | Hopefully | |
| Thomas Wood | thos | thos at gnome dot org | | ? | Yes | Yes | GNOME Coordinator |
| Maria Blackmore | maria | maria at cats dot meow dot at | 07740 470660 | Yes (late) | Yes | Yes | GNOME bod |
| Mike Martin | | mike at redtux.org.uk | 07969876356 | ? | Yes | ? | Random helper |
| David Pashley | JD | david at davidpashley.com | 07966657947 | Yes | Yes | Yes | On the debian stand. Not available for lunch cover |
| Martijn Dekkers | | martijn dot dekkers at gmail dot com | 07968750428 | at some time | Yes | Yes | Will bring some kit, and will be around at some parts of the day |
Stall
- We have a cool 6 metre length of wall and desk for KDE/Freedesktop.org/GNOME
- Jonathan has t-shirts (square K logo), badges (square K Logo) and a couple of other bits
- Jonathan has a nice big KDE Desktop poster
- Maria has an ethernet switch and cables, a 21" monitor, and a large rack mount PDU
- Martijn will bring some 4 ways, 2 x 20" LCD Panels, may bring another 17" LCD, a dual-head P4 PC, an Apple G4 (both with gentoo and kde33), and some odds and ends
Things we need
- 4 way power adapters
- blue tac
- KDE 3.3 flyers, freedesktop.org/x.org flyers, GNOME flyers (see http://gnome.org/~thos/onesheet.pdf) (chowells has a colour laser printer and is happy to print flyers/posters from a PS or PDF or probably Scribus file)
- Computers with KDE 3.3 and head, x.org 6.8 and nice extentions, GNOME 2.8 (I can bring a Shuttle PC box loaded with the above - Ben)
- Work out what the middle poster we want Brian to print for us would be, some combination of freedesktop.org, x.org, KDE and GNOME (what kind of dimensions will the poster be, can we just send him a PS/PDF file? - chowells)
Other
- Pizza party expected, AFFS doing one?: we will be ensuring that something outside Expo happens, check our wiki. Probably tagging along with Lonix/Gllug to ensure critical geek mass [alex@affs]
- See Debian's page http://wiki.earth.li/DebianLinuxExpo2004
- See AFFS's page http://www.affs.org.uk/~alex/LinuxWorldExpo2004
- I am not sure if you guys are aware of it yet, but Matthias Ettrich will be attending the show to give a talk. I was asked to put some names forward for people who be good to talk at the show, and I naturally put Matthias forward. I am doing a talk before him on emerging desktop technologies and he is doing a talk on Qt. Look forward to seeing you all there. -- Jono Bacon
Report
Last week saw the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo held in London. Representing the KDE project were Jonathan Riddell (Umbrello), Jeff Snyder (Kompare), Richard Smith (Kopete), George Wright (KLatin), Martijn Dekkers, Ben Lamb and David Pashley (on the Debian stand).
We ran a joint stall with the GNOMEs which gave us one of the biggest spaces in the .org village and was used to jointly promote <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org">freedesktop.org</a> and <a href="http://www.x.org">X.org</a>. Only one GNOME turned up so we spread ourselves, and the excellent collection of machines that had been lent to us, along the stall.
The most popular demonstration of KDE 3.3 was Kontact. A lot of people were interested in how well it could talk to Exchange. x.org 6.8 impressed everyone with its composite extension featuring transparent windows and nice shadows. XComposite runs slowly but the FreeNX demonstration showing a remote X desktop was as fast as it could be, even connecting to a server in Germany over a busy wifi link. The FreeNX server is likely to become a freedesktop.org project soon; the knx client is in kdenonbeta but badly needs developers to work on it and integrating it with KDE's existing remote desktop application. We also demonstrated KOffice and were pleased to report a number of satisfied users and many more interested in the database frontend Kexi.
We were proud to demonstrate <a href="
http://www.scribus.org.uk">Scribus DTP</a>. The Scribus developers say they have considered making Scribus a part of KDE but some of their users did not want the depencies so it remains pure Qt.
There were a number of people interested in KDE's lockdown framework Kiosk. We discussed a large KDE deployment taking place this week which makes heavy use of it
demonstrating the power and flexibility of KDE & Kiosk in the enterprise environment.
Several people asked how to start developing for KDE, we pointed them towards <a href="http://quality.kde.org">the KDE Quality teams</a> and the <a href="
http://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=JJ%3A&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED">Junior Jobs in Bugzilla</a>.
One of the highlights of the expo was the presence of KDE founder Matthias Ettrich who attended as a speaker to give a talk on "Qt: the engine for professional desktop applications on Linux and beyond". Matthias thinks that KDE should have positions elected to give developers official titles (this should mean he has fewer requests to do talks). He is also concerned about the clutter in KDE including Konqueror.
The killer feature in attracting punters to our stand was the new animation from Basse <a href="http://www.kimppu.org/basse/kde/">Konqi And The Magical Rope Of Curiosity</a> which looks excellent on a 20" dual screen monitor.
This was an excellent show not least because of the number of happy KDE users. Our thanks go to drochaid for printing the flyers, Ben and Martijn for lending us computers and Brian for organising the .org village.
["We discussed a large KDE deployment taking place this week", this is like waving a red flag in front of a bull. IMHO we should make this less specific until the time is right to do a proper announcement. Ben]
Photos
Michael Wood http://orion.x3n.me.uk/photo/linux/expo2004/
Thomas Wood http://www.thos.me.uk/Photos/Linux%20Expo%20-%20October%202004/
George Wright http://www.gwright.org.uk/images/?dir=pictures/KDE/LWCE-2004
David Pashley http://www.davidpashley.com/linuxworld2004/
Jonathan Riddell http://muse.19inch.net/~jr/tmp/linuxworld-photos/?pindex=1
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