Promo/Events/Release Parties/4.6

This page is for KDE SC 4.6 release party listings. Please follow the following template for readability and keep it sorted.

If you have question email lydia at kde org or kde-promo at kde org.

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Country

<Place>

• Date: DD/MM/YY (preferably within one week of release (26. January))
• Time: 00:00UTC/00:00LOCAL - 00:00UTC/00:00LOCAL
• Place: 12 Krazy Ave, Krazytown, Krazyland (link to map)
• Organizer: Luis (email)
• Other info:
  • Bring your own beer!

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Brian
  • Melissa

• What are you doing?
  • Melissa will give a talk about 4.6
  • have a few beers
  • have fun

Europe

France

Toulouse

• Date: March 18th and 19th
• Time: 20h on the 18th, 14h on the 19th
• Place: Centre Culturel Bellegarde, Toulouse
• Organizer: Toulibre LUG (contact: Kevin Ottens)
• Website: http://www.toulibre.org/kde46
• Giving a presentation
  • David Faure
  • Aurélien Gâteau
  • Kevin Ottens
  • Sébastien Renard
  • Pierre Ducroquet
  • Philippe Nénert
  • Anne-Marie Mahfouf
  • Guillaume de Bure
  • Stéphane Mankowshi

• Who is helping (or just coming)
  • Benjamin Port
  • Nathan Sala
  • Kévin Kin-Foo
  • Mario Bensi
  • Jean-Nicolas Artaud
  • Geoffray Levasseur
  • Cédric Descamps
  • Hélène Dervillez
  • Valentin Rusu
  • Guillaume Hormière

• What are you doing?
  • End-user presentation
  • Cocktail
  • Two tracks of presentations on the saturday
  • Closing dinner

Germany

Berlin

• Date: 28th of January 2011
• Time: 19:00
• Place: Restaurant Sadhu, Falkensteinstr. 41, (U Bahn Schlesisches Tor)
• Organizer: Claudia (KDE e.V.)
• Other info:

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Claudia Rauch
  • Cornelius Schumacher
  • Frank Karlitschek
  • Volker Krause
  • Daniel Laidig
  • Frank Osterfeld
  • Bernhard Beschow
  • Mirko Boehm
  • Kevin Funk
  • Milian Wolff
  • Stephen Kelly
  • Sönke Hahn
  • Arthur Schiwon
  • Tobias Koenig
  • Oswald Buddenhagen

• What are you doing?
  • have a few beers/cocktails and/or food
  • have fun
  • meet KDE people

Karlsruhe

• Date: 29.1.
• Time: 18:00
• Place: Vogelbräu KA (Kapellenstraße 50)
• Organizer: Lydia (lydia at kde org)
• Other info:
  • Anyone want to give a talk?
    • If there is interest I could give a talk on KWin GLES

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Lydia
  • Andreas (ademmer at opensuse org)
  • Martin
  • Volker
  • Nils
  • Michael
  • Manuel
  • Kai Uwe and Raoul (not yet certain)
  • Sven B.
  • Mark Kretschmann
  • Myriam Schweingruber
  • Gregor V.
  • Gerhard D. (Gerardo)
  • Marcel S.
  • Rolf S.
  • Niko S.
  • Sebastian V.

• What are you doing?
  • talks?
  • have a few beers and food
  • have fun
  • talk about KDE

Greece

Larissa

• Date: 08 Feb
• Time: 11:00 am
• Place: LinuxTeam Lab, TEI Of Larissa
• Organizer: LinuxTeam (linuxteam at teilar dot gr)
• More info: LinuxTeam Website (in greek), tampakrap's blog post

• Who is coming?
  • Theo Chatzimichos
  • George Bratsos
  • Dimitris Papapoulios
• What are you doing?
  • Small presentation about Plasma, PIM and various apps
  • Distribute KDE 4.6 livecd's and usb's, plus stickers/flyers
  • Install KDE distros to anyone interested and provide support
  • Talk, drink coffee :)

Portugal

Porto

• Date: 05th of February
• Time: 15:30
• Place: Café Bar Galerias de Paris,
• Rua Galeria de Paris 56 – Porto
• Organizer: Jorge Salgueiro jorge.salgueiro at gmail dot com
• Other info: http://tinyurl.com/4t87qt9

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Jorge Salgueiro
  • Nuno Pinheiro nuno at oxygen-icons dot org
  • Carlos Martins
  • Bruno Miguel
  • Helder Meneses
  • Fernando Pereira (@BUGabundo)
  • Ana Carvalho
  • Ricardo Lafuente
  • Pedro Ribeiro
  • Ricardo Gonçalves
  • Rizó Isrof
  • Leo Soares

• What are you doing?
  • Small presentation of what is new in 4.6
  • Snacks, drinking
  • Talk about KDE

Spain

Madrid

• Date: 29th of January (Saturday/Sábado)
• Time: 2:00pm
• Place:

Fass
C/Rodríguez Marín, 84
(paralela al Paseo de la Castellana,
a la altura del Santiago Bernabéu)

<Metro> Concha Espina
Mapas: OpenStreetMap, Google Maps

• Organizer: Javier Llorente (javier at opensuse org)
• Other info:
  • Anyone want to give a talk?

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Javier
  • Ereslibre
  • afiestas
  • javaguirre
  • jeymcjey
  • apt-drink
  • Rafa Grimán
  • Raúl

• What are you doing?
  • talks?
  • have a few beers and food
  • have fun
  • talk about KDE

Barcelona

• Date: 19/02/2011 (Saturday/Sábado)
• Time: 9:30pm
• Place: Restaurant "Dalt la Vila" (Badalona) More info here

• Organizer: Josep Ma. Ferrer (txemaq at gmail dot com)

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Josep Ma. Ferrer
  • Aleix Pol
  • Manuel Tortosa
  • Albert Astals Cid
  • Marc Deop
  • Orestes Mas
  • Adrià Arrufat
  • Albert Vaca
  • Miquel Sabaté
  • Miquel Canes
  • Víctor Blázquez
  • Joan Maspons
  • Pedro López-Cabanillas
  • Alvaro Villalba

• What are you doing?
  • Dinner & beers
  • Talk about KDE & FOSS, and fun

Scotland

Edinburgh

• Date: 26th of January
• Time: 20:00
• Place: Jonathan's flat, http://jriddell.org/contact.html
• Organizer: Jonathan Riddell [email protected]
• Other info: Burns supper, haggis, neaps, tatties. Bring KDE themed poetry

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • tmguire
  • coling
  • Kenny Duffus
  • Jonathan Riddell (presumably)

• What are you doing?
  • Eating haggis, neaps and tatties
  • drinking irn-bru and whisky
  • talk about KDE

Switzerland

St. Gallen

• Date: Feb. 2011
• Time: 19:00 - ...
• Place: Restaurant Bierhof, Rorschacher Strasse 34, 9000 St. Gallen (map)

• Organizer: Thomas Thym (ungethymATgmailDOTcom)
• Other info: Together with Linuxtreff St. Gallen (LUG)

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Thomas Thym
  • A couple of cool members of Linuxtreff SG
  • [enter your name here]

• What are you doing?
  • KDE cake!
  • food and drinks
  • rock your desktops
  • talk, celebrate and have...
  • fun! :D

wallis/Valais

• Date: 11th and 12th of February 2011
• Time: not yet known
• Place: Randa at the Tokamak3 place ;-)

• Organizer: Mario Fux (foxmanATlugoDOTch)
• Other info: There we'll do some website hacking for the local linux user group LUGO and setup of the registration system for the Randa 2011 meeting.

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Mario Fux
  • A couple of cool members of LUGO
  • [enter your name here]

• What are you doing?
  • food and drinks
  • rock your desktops
  • talk, celebrate and have...
  • fun! :D
  • hack PHP, Qt and KDE

Latin America

Argentina

Córdoba

• See our wiki page.

• Date: January 22nd.
• Time: 23:00 (local time).
• Place: Influencias Bar (Ayacucho 354, between San Juan and Duarte Quiroz), Córdoba, Córdoba.
• Organizer: KDE-AR.

• Who is coming? People from Córdoba, Rosario and Buenos Aires.

• What are you doing?
  • Have fun.
  • Have fernet and food.
  • Enjoy Córdoba.

Brazil

Alegrete (RS)

• Date: DELAYED - TBD
• Time: 19:00 (Local time)
• Place: Ponto Certo (in front of UNIPAMPA)
• Organizer: wagner.reck_gmail.com - KDE-RS

• Who is coming?
  • Wagner
  • Joseane
  • Yucatan
  • Lucas Arbiza
  • Rumenigue

• What are you doing?
  • have a few beers
  • have fun
  • Socialize a bit

Belo Horizonte (MG)

• Date: 26/jan
• Time: 19:00
• Place: Frango Frito - R. Guajajaras esquina com R. Juiz de Fora. Barro Preto
• Organizer: KDE-MG (geral at listas dot kde-mg dot org)

• Who is coming?
  • Amanda
  • Daniel
  • Eduardo
  • Estefanio
  • Felipe
  • Henry
  • Lamarque
  • Leonardo Amaral
  • Natalia
  • Samara
  • Thales Oliveira
  • Tulio Magno

• What are you doing?
  • have a few beers
  • have fun

São Paulo (SP)

• Date: 31-01-2011
• Time: from 07:00PM
• Place: Puppy

       Avenida Paulista, 1001 - São Paulo, SP
       (11) 3288-5923 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (11) 3288-5923      end_of_the_skype_highlighting ‎
        How to arrive

• Organizer: Domingos Teruel <mingomax at gmail.com>

• Who is coming?
  • Domingos Teruel
  • Julio Cesar
  • Piter PUNK
  • Michael Douglas

• What are you doing?
  • Beer and snacks
  • Meet cool people
  • Talk about KDE

Porto Alegre (RS)

• Date: 26/jan
• Time: 19:00
• Place: Pinguim - Rua Lima e Silva
• Organizer: Camila Ayres <smayres at gmail.com>

• Who is coming?
  • Camila Ayres
  • Huberto

• What are you doing?
  • Beer and snacks
  • Nerdy talks

Teresina (PI)

• Info
  • Date: 26/jan
  • Time: 19:00
  • Place: Ateliê do Chef
  • Organizer: KDE-PI
  • More Info: KDE-PI website

• Who is coming?
  • Filipe Saraiva
  • Francisco Fernandes
  • Aracele Torres
  • Pedro Leonardo
  • André Igor

• What are you doing?
  • Beer, beer and beer!
  • Mangueira!
  • Pizza!

Salvador (BA)

• Info
  • Date: 12-02-2011
  • Time: 5:00 pm
  • Place: Largo da Dinha - Rio Vermelho
  • Organizer: LiveBlue
  • More Info: LiveBlue website

• Who is coming?
  • Sandro Andrade
  • Paulo Almeida

• What are you doing?
  • Beer !
  • Talk about KDE ...
  • Eat Acarajé and Abará ...
  • Have fun

North America

United States

Northeast Ohio

• Date: January 22nd
• Time: 6 PM
• Place: Luigi's Restaurant, North Main Street, Akron, OH
• Organizer: Trever Fischer (IRC: tdfischer, Mail: tdfischer at fedoraproject.org)
• Other info:
  • Last I heard, Luigi's does not take debit or credit, so pay in cash.

• Who is coming?
  • Trever
  • James Cain
  • Some people from UA's student ACM chapter

• What are you doing?
  • Food and beer
  • Fun
  • Talk about KDE
  • Introduce new people to KDE
  • Complain about ohio

Asia

Iran

Tehran

• Date: 10/02/11 (preferably within one week of release (26. January))
• Time: 1pm (Local time)
• Place: Keshavarz blvd, Saman building, Cafe Prague
• Organizer: Emil Sedgh
• Other info: This is a KDE and Debian (Squeeze) release party.