Promo/Events/Release Parties/4.4

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

Belgium

FOSDEM X Brussels

• Date: 05-06-07/02/2010
• Place: Delirium Cafe and ULB Campus Brussels
• Organizer: FOSDEM 2010
• Other info:

- see FOSDEM 2010 Wiki Page

• What are you doing?

 - Friday Night FOSDEM sponsored Beer event
 - Weekend: Big event, KDE group photo, demonstration, booth
 - ....

Brazil

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
 - Tulio Magno

• 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!

Salvador

• Date: 06/02/10
• Time: 1400 UTC-3
• Place: Faculdade Area1 (talks) / To be defined (party)
• Organizer: Cristiano Furtado / [Live Blue]
• Other info:

Promotion Stuff

 - Flyers KDE Release Party and Ekaaty Day (Arts responsible: Erick)
 - Shirts (Arts Erick - Shirts Fac Area1)
 - Banners (KDE Release Party and Ekaaty Day (Arts responsible: 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?

Time	Talk	Presenter	Level
1400	Introdução ao Software Livre e o GNU/Linux	André Wyzykowski	Iniciante
1500	KDE 4 para Iniciantes	Sandro S. Andrade	Iniciante
1600	Ekaaty	Cristiano Furtado	Iniciante
1700	O KDE na Bahia e no Brasil	Sandro S. Andrade	Intermediário
1800	KDE SC 4.4 Release Party	Everybody	Your preferred fun level :)

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
 - Michael Leupold
 - Daniel Laidig
 -

• What are you doing?

 - talks (who wants to give a short one?)
   - Doin' stuff with hot new stuff and the social desktop (Frederik)
 - food and drinks
 - fun! :D

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 Members/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!

• More Information :

 - http://KDE-ir.Org
 - [email protected]

Netherlands

Culemborg

• Date: 12/01/10 (preferably within one week of release (9. February))
• Time: 18:00UTC/19:00LOCAL - XX-1:00UTC/XX:00LOCAL
• Place: KovoKs - Randweg 3-b - 4104 AC Culemborg (http://www.kovoks.nl/contact/routebeschrijving)
• Organizer: Rinse de Vries/Jos Poortvliet/Tom Albers ([email protected])
• Other info:

  We'll have some demo's and stuff and drink some beer (it's friday after 

all). Anyone is welcome, but we have a limit of about 25 people. We'll make sure there is some food & some drinks, a contribution is therefor welcome.

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

 - you?

• What are you doing?

 - Jos will demo KDE SC 4.4
 - we'll then drink beer (or coke, if that's more your thing)
 - we will have some app-specific things, at least Tom will demo/talk about KDE PIM
 - we continue getting drunk (or acting like we are due to coke overkill)

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

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.

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!