Promo/Events/Release Parties/4.8

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• Date: DD/MM/YY (preferably within one week of release on 25th of January)
• Time: 00:00 - 00:00
• 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 4.8
  • have a few beer
  • have fun

Asia

India

Durgapur, West Bengal

• Date: 04/02/12
• Time: ~17:00
• Place: NIT Durgapur
• Organizer: Tirtha Chatterjee (wyuka) (tirtha DOT p DOT chatterjee AT gmail DOT com)

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Smit Shah (Who)
  • Samikshan Bairagya (Samxan)

• What are you doing?
  • Who will give a workshop on developing for KDE 4.8
  • Who, wyuka and samxan will give a talk on the ways to get involved in the KDE community
  • Overnight hackfest (lots of fun + features + bugfixes)

North America

United States

Bellingham, Washington

• Date: Saturday 2012-01-28
• Start Time: ~14:00
• Place: 2601 North Park Drive [1]
• Organizer: Anthony Penzinski (anthony"在"penzinski.com)
• Purpose: As the SuSE people like to say, to "have a lot of fun".
• Details: Potluck meal, light drinking, stimulating conversation, strange eclectic music. Family friendly. Noob friendly. Microsoft friendly! ;^{)
• Parking: If you come in a car, there should be room to park along Broadway in front of the Roeder Home, and along North Park Drive.

New York City

• Date: Thursday 2011-12-29
• Time: ~18h30
• Place: Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn
• Organizer: Jason Donenfeld (jason at zx2c4 dot com)
• Blog entry: [2]

Europe

Czech Republic

Prague

• Date: Friday 24th of February
• Time: 17:00
• Place: SUSE Linux s.r.o. (Map)
• Organizer: Theo
• More info: Theo's blog post (in English), Michal's blog post (in Czech)

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

• What are you doing?
  • Short talks
  • Drink coffee, beers
  • Distribute KDE swag and KDE 4.8 LiveDVD's
  • Eat the Kake (KDE Cake)
  • Have fun!!

Denmark

Copenhagen

• Date: Friday 27th of January
• Time: 17:00 or 19:00
• Place: Brewpub, Vestergade 29, 1456 København K
• Organizer: Martin Schlander (cb400f on irc) (martin at sslug dk)

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Martin Schlander (QuickFeed: yes)
  • Sune Vuorela (QuickFeed: yes)
  • Morten Sjøgren (QuickFeed: yes)
  • Alexander Færøy (QuickFeed: yes)
  • Lars Aronsson (QuickFeed: yes)
  • Jon Bendtsen (QuickFeed: yes)
  • Bryan Østergaard (QuickFeed: yes)
  • Claus Christensen (QuickFeed: yes)
  • Allan Sandfeld

• What are you doing?
  • 17:00 - 18:45: QuickFeed at the Brewpub restaurant (optional, 320 DKK)
  • 19:00 - ?: Have a few beers and a lot of fun at the Brewpub pub section while talking about KDE and other interesting things

France

Limoges

• Date: 26th of January
• Time: 18:00
• Place: IUT du Limousin (University of Limoges)
• Organizer: Ludovic Grossard (grossard at kde org) / alternatives87

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Sylvain Floury
  • Ludovic Grossard
  • Alix Mascret
  • Olivier Toussaint

• What are you doing?
  • talks (what's new in 4.8, highlights on some KDE softwares)
  • have fun
  • after that, have dinner together (gnu-bouffe as we say :) )

Toulouse

• Date: 25th of January
• Time: 20:00
• Place: Le paradis du fruit - 16, bd de Strasbourg - 31000 Toulouse
• Organizer: Jean-Nicolas (morice-net on irc) (jeannicolasartaud at gmail com)
• Details: [KDE 4.8 release webpage]

• Who is coming? (Add yourself [on the form] if you want to come!)
  • Kévin Ottens
  • Jean-Nicolas Artaud
  • Find the list at the bottom of [this page]

• What are you doing?
  • eat healthy food and drink fruit cocktails
  • have fun and drink beer, for those that don't like cocktails
  • discuss about some future events around KDE

Paris

• Date: 9th of February
• Time: 19:00
• Place: Au Père Fouettard - 9 rue Pierre Lescot - Paris
• Organizer: Parinux
• Details: [KDE4.8 Feast]

• Who is coming (Add yor self to the form on [KDE4.8 Feast]

• What are you doing?
  • eat and drink
  • KDE technology presentation and demo (both plasma-desktop and plasma-notebook)

Germany

Karlsruhe

• Date: 28th of January
• Time: 19:00
• Place: Stövchen (table is reserved for Pintscher)
• Organizer: Lydia Pintscher (lydia at kde org)

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Lydia Pintscher
  • Martin Gräßlin
  • Kai Uwe Broulik (also celebrating birthday that day, will maybe bring a cake or something)
  • Eckhart Wörner
  • Thorsten Zachmann
  • Volker Lanz
  • Frank Karlitschek
  • (Dennis Nienhüser. Maybe I'm able to join very late)
  • Manuel Nickschas
  • Jonathan Kolberg
  • Patrick von Reth
  • Florian Jacob
  • Sven Krohlas

• What are you doing?
  • have nice food and drinks
  • talks? (Who wants to give one?)
    • I plan to prepare something about software patents --Sven423 13:40, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
  • have fun
  • What’s about keysigning?

Ulm

• Date: 27th of January
• Time: 19:00
• Place: Herrenkellergasse 4, Ulm (aka Hotel M & M)
• Organizer: Mark Kretschmann (kretschmann at kde org), Myriam Schweingruber (myriam at kde org)

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Mark Kretschmann
  • Myriam Schweingruber
  • Manuel Nickschas
  • David Weber
  • Burak Aktas
  • Martin Aumüller
  • Ralf Engels
  • Harald 'Princess Butterfly' Sitter
  • Wolf-Michael Bolle
  • Ian 'Princess Pony' Monroe
  • Benoît Sauts(with GF)

• What are you doing?
  • Party
    • please bring drinks, finger food will be provided, but some awesome salad or cake is a good idea. Please coordinate with M & M :)
    • keysigning eventually?

Berlin

• Date:28th of Jan together with housewarming?!?
• http://kders.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/kde-release-party-berlin-now-with-food/
  • Camila Ayres
  • Jos Poortvliet
  • Olivier Goffart
  • Björn Balazs (welcome to Berlin, Camila & Jos!)
  • Steffi Winkler
  • Daniel Laidig
  • Arthur Schiwon
  • Sebastian Grüner (probably bringing cake)

Greece

Thessaloniki

• Date: tba - likely weekend of 28/29th of January
• Time: tba
• Place: tba
• Organizer: Kostas Koudaras (warlordfff at opensuse dot org)

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Efstathios Iosifidis (diamond_gr at freemail teleia gr)
  • Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas
  • Antonis Tsiapaliokas
• What are you doing?

Athens

• Date: tba
• Time: tba
• Place: tba
• Organizer: Christos Loukas (commixon at gmail com)

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Petros Vidalis (pvidalis at gmail dot com) (not so sure but I think I will be there)

• What are you doing?

Larissa

• Date: 27-1-2012
• Time: 18:00
• Place: LinuxTeam ATEI Larisas Lab
• Organizer: Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas (terietor at gmail com)

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas
  • Antonis Tsiapaliokas
  • Eirini Karapetsa
  • Dimitris Papapoulios
  • More people will attend..

• What are you doing?
  • Giorgos will have a talk about KDE SC 4.8 and KDE el
  • Have foods,drinks and a nice cake
  • Have a nice time

Serres

• Date: 22/2/2012
• Time: 22.00
• Place: Cafe Bar Goya, Serres
• Organizer: SerLUG

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
• What are you doing?
  • Have a nice time

Kastoria

• Date: 25-2-2012
• Time: 13:30
• Place: Linux Team ATEI Kastoria Lab
• Organizer: Vennos Alexandros & Tuska Euaggelia

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Alexandros Vennos
  • Euaggelia Tuska
  • Dimitra Dimitriadou
  • Vasilis Kuriazopoulos
  • Teo Emmanouilidis
  • Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas
  • Antonis Tsiapaliokas
  • More people will attend..

• What are you doing?
  • Giorgos will have a talk about KDE SC 4.8 and KDE el
  • Have foods,drinks and a nice cake
  • Have a nice time

Italy

Torino

• Date: 26/01/12
• Time: tba
• Place: tba
• Organizer: Vincenzo Buttazzo (vbuttazzo DOT yahoo DOT com)

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

• What are you doing?
  • Talk about 4.8
  • Meet other KDE fans!

The Netherlands

Culemborg

• Date: 27 January (Friday)
• Time: 19:00 - 22:00
• Place: KovoKs, Randweg 3-b, 4104 AC Culemborg (directions)
• Organizer: Alexander van Loon (a dot vanloon at alexandervanloon dot nl) and Tom Albers
• Other info:
  • Please mention if you want to eat along with the pizzas so we know how much should be ordered. Please give a small financial contribution so we can pay for the drinks.

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Alexander van Loon
  • Tom Albers
  • Sebastian Kügler
  • Heinz Wiesinger
  • Arjen Hiemstra
  • Freek de Kruijf

• What are you doing?
  • Sebastian will give a presentation and demo of Plasma Active.
  • Arjen Hiemstra will talk about the work done on Gluon and Calligra.
  • Pizzas and drinks will be taken care of.

• NOTICE: this release party has been cancelled due to lack of interest. We apologize for the late notice.

Slovenia

Ljubljana

• Date: January 31 (Tuesday)
• Time: 19:00 — 22:00
• Place: Kiberpipa, Kersnikova 6 (link to map)
• Organizer: Jure "JLP" Repinc ([email protected])
• More info:
  • openDesktop.org
  • LinkedIn
  • Kiberpipa

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Jure Repinc
  • Andrej Vernekar
  • Miha čančula
  • Matija Šuklje
  • Andrej Čremožnik
  • Jaka Kranjc

• What are you doing?
  • 3 presentations
  • food and drinks
  • handing out small goodies
  • have fun

Spain

Madrid

• Date: January 20th (Friday)
• Time: 22:00
• Place: Pizza Marzano, Gran Vía, 69
• Organizer: Albert Astals Cid ([email protected])

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come (or mail me at [email protected]))
  • Albert Astals Cid
  • Javier Llorente
  • Rafael Fernández López
  • Jaime Torres Amate (y mujer)
  • Raúl Sánchez Siles
  • Rafael Rodríguez
  • Athanasios-Ilias Rousinopoulos

• What are you doing?
  • have nice food and drinks
  • have fun

Barcelona

• Date: Friday, January 27th
• Time: 22:00 (to be confirmed, will make the reservation once we know who comes)
• Place: Sant Andreu Jabugo. Plaça Palmeres 5, 08030 Barcelona
• Organizer: Aleix Pol Gonzalez ([email protected])

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Aleix Pol Gonzalez
  • Víctor Blázquez Francisco
  • Josep Ma. Ferrer
  • Albert Astals Cid
  • Carlos Cabezas
  • Orestes Mas
  • David Gil (as I am new and nobody will know me, my blog is Expolio Intelectual)
  • Miquel Adroer (http://miquel66.caliu.cat/)
  • Miquel Sabaté Solà
  • Albert Vaca Cintora
  • Álvaro Villalba Navarro
  • Carmine De Rosa (+1)
  • Alfons Callado Pallarès
• What are you doing?
  • have nice food and drinks
  • have fun

Málaga

• Date: January 27th (Friday)
• Time: 21:30
• Place: Las Garrafas restaurant.
• Organizer: Agustin Benito Bethencourt & Antonio Larrosa ([email protected])

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come (or mail me at [email protected]))
  • Antonio Larrosa
  • Agustin Benito Bethencourt
  • Alberto Barrionuevo
  • Alberto Salmerón Moreno
  • Alvaro Manuel Recio Perez
  • Mari Carmen Correa
  • Jesús Escapa
  • Alberto Sanz
  • Almudena Aguado
  • Javier Ramirez
  • ~12 developers from the GStreamer Hackfest 2012

• What are you doing?
  • have nice food and drinks

Switzerland

Visp

• Date: January 27th (Friday)
• Time: arround 19:00
• Place: Restaurant Mühle, right beneath the main station
• Organizer: Mario Fux ([email protected])
• Info: After the LUGO General Assembly

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come (or mail me at [email protected]))
  • Mario Fux
  • Oliver Summermatter

• What are you doing?
  • have nice food and drinks
  • have fun
  • Probably some demo of the new software

Finland

Helsinki

• Date: 12/01/12
• Time: 18:00
• Place: Hiomotie 32, Helsinki, FI 00380
• Organizer: Laszlo Papp ([email protected])

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Laszlo Papp
  • Juhapekka Piiroinen
  • Aapo Rista
  • Henri Ranki
  • Mike Bradshaw
  • Samu Voutilainen
  • Jason Robinson

• What are you doing?
  • Talk about KDE 4.8.
  • Have free food, drinks and sauna -> fun :)

South America

Brazil

Teresina

• Date: 27 January
• Time: 19:00
• Place: Ateliê do Chef
• Organizer: Aracele Torres ([email protected])

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Aracele
  • Chicão
  • Lucas

• What are you doing?
  • Beer and Pizza and KDE Stuff!

São Carlos

• Date: 27 january
• Time: 20:00h local time
• Place: Estação Trem Bão, Av. São Carlos [3]
• Organizer: Filipe Saraiva ([email protected])
• Costs: Cada um paga o que consumir

• Who is coming?
  • Filipe
  • Vitor
  • Daniel
  • Rodrigo

• What are you doing?
  • Beer
  • Beer
  • Talk about KDE 4.8
  • Talk about KDE Community
  • KDE 4.8 demonstration
  • Beer

Florianópolis

• Date: 28th January
• Time: after 9PM
• Place: Chop do Gus - Kobrasol
• Organizer: Domingos Teruel ([email protected])

• Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
  • Domingos Teruel
  • Luiz Octavio Cobucci
  • Jhonny
  • Julio Cesar Tomaschitz

• What are you doing?
  • Beer, 'Salgadinhos', and KDE Stuff!
  • Have a lot of fun!

Rio de Janeiro

• Date: 27/02
• Time: 19h
• Place: Lanchão & CIA - Rua do Ouvidor, Centro. Rio de Janeiro - RJ
• Organizer: Diogo Leal ([email protected])

• Who is coming?
  • Diogo Leal
  • Tomaz Canabrava

Argentina

Capital

• Date: 26/10/12
• Time: 19:00 - 23:00
• Place: Orsai Bar - Humberto Primo 471, San Telmo
• Organizer: Alvaro

• What are you doing?
  • Have a few beers
  • Perhaps give some lightning talks

Corrientes

• Date: 27/01/12
• Time: 20:00 - 04:00
• Place: BioWare Informatica - Hipolito Irigoyen (link to map: comming soon)
• Organizer: Martín - Jorge

• Who is coming?

• What are you doing?
  • Talk about 4.8 and install it
  • Have a few beer with paninis

Peru

Cuzco

• Date: 26/01/12
• Time: 20:00 - 02:00
• Place: Cafe-Restaurant Aldea Yanapay - Calle Ruinas 415, 2do piso
• Organizer: Ronny Yabar

• Who is coming?
  • Jamel Hilares
  • Michel Castillo
  • Ronny Yabar

• What are you doing?
  • Talk about KDE 4.8 new features and demos.
  • KDE Peru community and how to gain new contributors.
  • Beer, pisco sour, some food and have a lot of fun.