Revision as of 07:54, 9 January 2010

This page is for KDE SC 4.4 release party listings. Please follow the following template for readability.

If you have questions about organizing a release party you can contact Jussi - jussi01 at kubuntu.org or Lydia - lydia at kde.org

Country

<Place>

Date: DD/MM/YY (preferably within one week of release (9. February))
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 4.4
 - have a few beers
 - have fun

Brazil

Salvador

Date: 13/02/10
Time: TBD
Place: Faculdade Area1 / Confraternização (Em Aberto)
Organizer: Cristiano Furtado
Other info:

Confection

 - Flyers KDE Party and Ekaaty Day (Arts responsable Erick)
 - Shirts (Arts Erick - Shirts Fac Area1)
 - Banners (Kde Party and Ekaaty Day (Arts responsable Erick)

Others

 - Snacks
 - Support team

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

 - Sandro Andrade
 - Cristiano Furtado
 - Henrique Watt
 - Vito Chiarella
 - André Brasil Wyzykowsky
 - Alexandre Raymond
 - Jordana Loppes
 - Erick Goes

What are you doing?

 - Have beer/other beverages
 - Show off koolness of KDE on Laptops
 - Discuss KDE and other important stuff
 - Have Fun!

Belo Horizonte

Date: 13/02/10
Time: TBD
Place:TBD
Organizer: Amanda SCI
Other info:

 - Be there.

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

 - Amanda
 - Felipe
 - Duda
 - lamarque vieira
 - Daniel Nascimento
 - Anderson Viana

What are you doing?

 - Have beer/other beverages
 - Show off koolness of KDE on Laptops
 - Discuss KDE and other important stuff
 - Have Fun!

Florianopólis

Date: 13/02/10
Time: TBD
Place:TBD
Organizer: Cristiano Furtado
Other info:

 - Be there.

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

 - Tomaz Canabrava
 - Helio Castro
 - Guax

What are you doing?

 - Have beer/other beverages
 - Show off koolness of KDE on Laptops
 - Discuss KDE and other important stuff
 - Have Fun!

Canada

London, Ontario

Date: 03/02/10
Time: 19:00 - 22:00 Eastern
Place: Fanshawe College, London, Ontario (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.01251&lon=-81.20852&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF), room B1012

 - Two hours drive from Toronto, or Detroit; much longer by sled-dog.

Organizer: Troy Unrau ([email protected])
Other info:

 - This is the London Ontario LUG monthly meeting - coinciding with the release

Who is coming?

 - Troy

What are you doing?

 - Troy will give a demonstration of 4.4 to the LUG
 - Discussion about hosting future Camp KDE event in Toronto region
 - General hysteria: the group is dominated by Ubuntu users who have no idea how cool KDE really is - after being inspired by the amazing power we wield over our computers, they will begin to worship us. Soon they will be asking us to rewrite the driver stack, and fix their grandmother's pacemakers, which we can do via telekinesis because we are just that awesome. Later, we might make some mom jokes.
 - Wrap up with some beer/pizza/etc.

Finland

Oulu

Date: 11/02/10
Time: 17:00UTC/19:00LOCAL - 21:00UTC/023:00LOCAL
Place: Cafe Bisketti, Rotuaari, Oulu
Organizer: Jussi Schultink (jussi01 at kubuntu.org)
Other info:

 - Be there!

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

 - Jussi
 - Sari
 - Muep
 - Sysi
 - Someone else?

What are you doing?

 - Have coffee/beer/other beverages
 - Show off koolness of KDE on Laptops
 - Discuss KDE and other important stuff
 - Have Fun!

Germany

Karlsruhe

Date: 13/02/10
Time: TBD
Place: TBD
Organizer: Lydia Pintscher (lydia at kde.org)
Other info:

 - ...

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

 - Lydia Pintscher
 - Frederik Gladhorn
 - Marek Siller
 -

What are you doing?

 - talks (who wants to give a short one?)
 - food and drinks
 - fun! :D

Slovenia

Ljubljana

Date: 09/02/10
Time: 19:00 - 21:00 (17:00 - 19:00 UTC)
Place: Kiberpipa, Kersnikova 6 (link to map)
Organizer: Jure "JLP" Repinc ([email protected])
Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)

 - Jure Repinc
 - Andrej Vernekar
 - Andrej Čremožnik
 - Luka Renko
 - Miha Čančula
 - Maja Poklinek

What are you doing?

 - talks
 - food and drinks
 - fun! :D

United States

Washington, DC (Metro)

Date: 12/02/10 *Note the date change to Friday
Time: TBD
Place:TBD
Organizer: Celeste Paul/Justin Kirby (celeste at kde.org/justin at neomantra.org)
Other info:

 - Be there!

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

 - Celeste
 - Justin
 - Mackenzie
 - Jonathan
 - Add your name here

What are you doing?

 - Have beer/other beverages
 - Show off koolness of KDE on Laptops
 - Discuss KDE and other important stuff
 - Have Fun!

Akron, Ohio

Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Place: The University of Akron, Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences building, rm 245.
Organizer: Trever Fischer <[email protected]>
Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)

 - Trever
 - Other ACM members

What are you doing?

 - Food, snacks, beverages (Sorry, they're non-alcoholic. Its on campus.)
 - Trever will give a talk about KDE
 - kool demos!
 - It'll coincide with a regular ACM meeting, the members of which are predominantly linux newbies and pro-GNOME (but they're not sure why!)
 - Free copies of Fedora 12's KDE spin (a fedora ambassador's gotta do something, ya know? :) )
 - Depending on how our meeting schedule turns out, there might be a migration to another venue for beer, more food, and other fun.

Iran

Isfahan,Isfahan state

Date: 22/02/10 / (3rd Esfand 1388 in jalali calander for persian users)
Time: 5:00 pm
Place: Esfahan Central Library (Learning salon , Floor -2 , Central Library , Baghe goldaste St, Darvaze Dolat Sq)
Organizer: Persian KDE Department(Roozbeh Shafiee)/Isfahan Users Group (IsfahanLUG)
Other info:

 - Be there!

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

 - Roozbeh Shafiee (ROSHA)
 - Shahrzad Shojaei

What are you doing?

 - Presentation of KDE SC 4.4
 - Eating Release Party Cake
 - install KDE SC 4.4 on debian base distros / archlinux base distros
 - Have Fun!