Promo/Events/Release Parties/4.4

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

It'd be great if you would write a short report on the event and send it to [email protected] or jospoortvliet atkdeorg, including some photos from the event. We'll then turn it into a dot story!

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

Argentina

Buenos Aires

  • Date: 13/02/10
  • Time: 21:00UTC/18:00LOCAL
  • Place: "Araoz 1199" (between "Córdoba" and "Cabrera")
  • Organizer: Mariano Luna
  • Other Info:
  • Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
    • Ariel Kanterewicz
    • Lucas Cardoso
    • Tiverius NuxLux
    • Alejandro Rean
    • Mariano Luna
    • Leonardo De Luca
    • Juan Martin Muguerza
    • Alvaro Soliverez
    • Oscar Gentilezza
  • What are you doing?
    • Discuss KDE and other important stuff
    • Have a few beers
    • Show new features
    • Enjoy food
    • Have Fun!

Belgium

FOSDEM X Brussels

Brazil

Alegrete

  • Date: 10/02/10
  • Time: 1400-1730 UTC-3
  • Place: Universidade Federal do Pampa (UNIPAMPA)
  • Organizer: Wagner de M. Reck
  • Other info:
    • At entrance hall. Be there!
  • Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
    • Wagner de M. Reck
  • What are you doing?
    • Show off videos and demos
    • Show off koolness of KDE on Laptops
    • Discuss KDE and other important stuff
    • Have Fun!

Belo Horizonte

  • Date: 11/02/10
  • Time: 18:00
  • Place: Frango Frito
  • Organizer: Amanda SCI
  • Other info:
    • Be there.
  • Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
    • Amanda
    • André Fillipe
    • Krust
    • Duda
    • lamarque vieira
    • Daniel Nascimento
    • Anderson Viana
    • Tulio Magno
    • Leonardo Amaral (a.k.a. leleobhz)
  • 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
    • 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: Web page

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
    • Luiz Henrique N. dos Anjos
  • 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 :)


Teresina

  • Date: 06/02/10
  • Time: 0930 UTC-3
  • Place: Chicao's place
  • Organizer: Chicao Fernandes / Pé de Pinico
  • Other info: PSL - PI

Others

  • Brocas (Food)
  • Suporte (Support)
  • Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
    • Francisco Fernandes (Chicao)
    • Filipe Saraiva
    • Aracele Torres
    • Bianca de Oliveira
  • What are you doing?
    • Apresentação do KDE (KDE Presentation)
    • Descrição dos projetos do KDE (Description of the KDE project)
    • Apresentação da versão 4.4 (Presentation of version 4.4)
    • Compilação da versão 4.4 (Compiling version 4.4)
    • Brejas :) (Beer!)
    • Cajuína :D (A typical drink of Piauí)
    • Sessão de piadas e imitações (Session of jokes and imitations), by Chicao

Canada

London, Ontario

  • 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.

Edmonton Alberta

  • Date: Feb 9th 2010
  • Time: 19:00 - 21:00 Mountain
  • Place: Edmonton New Technology Society, Edmonton, Alberta (map)
  • Who is coming?
    • Thomas Fjellstrom
  • What are you doing?
    • Thomas will give a demonstration of KDE SC 4.4 to the attendees
    • Wrap up with Q&A and whatever else people want to do.
    • Food and drinks are allowed. Alcoholic beverages (ie: BEEER!) included. Thomas can't afford to supply any however. BYOF/BYOB.

Vancouver, BC

  • Date: 12/02/10
  • Time: after school
  • Place: Chani's house
  • Who is coming?
    • Chani
    • Scott
    • At least one Jeff


  • What are you doing?
    • Hacking, playing games, whatever seems like a good idea at the time.

Chile

Villarrica

  • Date: 13/02/10
  • Time: 21:00 UTC/18:00 LOCAL
  • Place: Urrutia 940
  • Organizer: Camilo Astete
  • Other info:
    • Bring money for food
    • DVD and CD for backup
    • Experiencias
    • Exchange of info
  • Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
    • José Damián Garrido
    • Jaime Vidal Sandoval
    • walter manriquez gebert
    • michael campos
    • Camilo Astete
    • Rogger V.
  • What are you doing?
    • Discuss KDE and other important stuff
    • Have a few beers
    • Show new features
    • Enjoy food
    • Have Fun!

Denmark

Copenhagen

  • Date: 10/02/10
  • Time: 18:00 UTC/19:00 LOCAL
  • Place: CBS, Howitzvej 60, 2000 Frederiksberg
  • Organizer: SSLUG / Martin Schlander
  • Other info:
  • Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
    • Martin Schlander (cb400f)
    • Nikolaj Hald Nielsen (nhn)
    • Sune Vuorela (pusling)
    • Morten Sjøgren (m_abs)
    • Ole Baden (noviole)
    • Björn Sveinbjörnsson (bjossir)
  • What are you doing?
    • Presentation of some new features
    • Demonstration of Plasma Netbook
    • Talk about Danish translation of KDE
    • Introduction to the KDE development platform
    • Having a lot of fun!
    • Just listening!

Estonia

Tallinn

  • Date: 09/02/10
  • Time: 19:00 LOCAL
  • Place: Kapp, Pärnu mnt 9, Tallinn
  • Organizer: Vaba Tarkvara Klubi / Laur Mõtus
  • Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
    • Laur Mõtus
  • What are you doing?
    • Presentation of some new features
    • Demonstration of Plasma Netbook
    • Gathering ideas for future development
    • Having a lot of fun!
    • Just listening!


Tartu

  • Date: 09/02/10
  • Time: 19:00 LOCAL
  • Place: TÜ Matemaatika-informaatikateaduskond, Liivi 2-317, Tartu
  • Organizer: Vaba Tarkvara Klubi / Mihkel Tõnnov
  • Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
    • Mihkel Tõnnov
  • What are you doing?
    • Presentation of some new features
    • Demonstration of Plasma Netbook
    • Gathering ideas for future development
    • Having a lot of fun!
    • Just listening!

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

  • Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
    • Lydia Pintscher
    • Frederik Gladhorn
    • Marek Siller
    • Michael Leupold
    • Daniel Laidig
    • Volker Lanz
  • 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

Ravensburg

  • Date: 12/02/10 maybe 13th, depends on the members
  • Time: It begins when it begins
  • Place: We´re still planning (open for everything =) )
  • Organizer: Vamp898 ([email protected])
  • Other info:
    • We play a lot of Music (mostly Metal)
  • Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
    • Vamp898 (right, thats me)
    • n0p
    • Yoshitaker
    • Asakku
    • fridgeboxx
    • Ilja aka S-DeviL
  • What are you doing?
    • Installing/Updating our KDEs and have fun with it
    • Listen to a lot of music
    • Maybe Karaoke (yes Karaoke with different kinds of Metal)

Nuremberg

  • Date: 25/02/10 (special post mortem wrapup party for Tokamak4)
  • Time: 2100UTC/2200CET
  • Place: Downtown, Nuernberg
  • Organizer: Will Stephenson wstephenson kde org
  • Other info:
    • Bring painkillers and antacids for afterwards!
  • Who is coming?
    • Will Stephenson
    • Tokamak4 attendees
    • SUSE Drunken Masters
  • What are you doing?
    • Talking about KDE
    • Drinking Plasma Bombs
    • Listening to bad taste music!

Berlin

  • Date: 13/02/10
  • Time: sometime in the evening, lets say after 18:00. but I'll be around all day probably
  • Place: ask me (Milian), it will be the rented flat for the attendees of the Kate/KDevelop hacksprint that starts on the 13th. Hence only restricted space and not many people can come... other KDE/KDAB/Qt hackers will probably have most fun to come around
  • Organizer: Milian Wolff ([email protected])
  • Other info:
    • if you are coming, bring something to dring and snack :)
  • Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
    • apaku, cullmann, dhaumann, kling, ehamberg, nsams, milian, jowenn, adymo, ...
  • What are you doing?
    • Get to know each other :)
    • starting with the Kate/KDevelop hacksprint
    • probably some mixture of drinking, talking, hacking, brainstorming, planning of the next week, ...

Indonesia

ULW 2010, Bandung (West Java)

  • Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come, please!) 
- M. Bayu "Rametux"
  • What are you doing?
    • Talks about KDE SC 4.4 (Platform, Workspaces, and Applications)
    • Having nice (local) ordinary coffee with local KDE Community
    • installing KDE SC 4.4 on openSUSE and Arch Linux
    • Having 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 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!

Kosovo

Prishtina

  • Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
    • Milot Shala
    • Dardan Fejzullahi
    • Mehmetali Shaqiri
    • Petrit Bytyqi
    • Gent Thaqi
    • Arianit Dobroshi
    • Flakron Bytyqi
    • Ardian Haxha
    • Taulant Ramabaja
    • Ardi Hasimja
    • Valdrin Maliqi
    • Shkelqim Ahmeti
    • Altin Ukshini
    • Lulzim Gashi
    • Gemb Shehu
    • Tafil Suhagerllaj


  • What are you doing?
    • KDE Presentation (including repositioning of the KDE Brand)
    • Food & Drinks
    • Fun with the community!

Netherlands

Culemborg

  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 30 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!)
    • Arjen Hiemstra
    • Tom Albers
    • Jos Poortvliet
    • Bram Schoenmakers
    • Heinz Wiesinger
    • Julio Foulquié
    • Marijke Verkaik
    • Micha Kersloot
    • Eric Hameleers
    • Adriaan de Groot
    • Roeland Struijk
    • 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 continue getting drunk (or acting like we are due to coke overkill)
    • Eric H. will bring his Slackware laptop running KDE 4.4

Slovenia

Ljubljana

  • Date: 09/02/10
  • Time: 18:00 - 21:00 (16:00 - 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

Spain

Barcelona

Details can be found at http://cat.kde.org/index.php/KDE4.4_ReleaseParty

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 - Friday, February 12  *Note the date change to Friday
  • Time: 7pm until people leave or we get kicked out (they close at 9pm)
  • Place: Fuddruckers, Columbia, MD (link to map)
  • Organizer: Celeste Paul/Justin Kirby (celeste at kde.org/justin at neomantra.org)
  • Other info:
    • There is a pretty cool craft beer bar 1.5 miles down the road (Victoria Gastro Pub) if anyone is up for visiting after dinner.
  • Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
    • Celeste
    • Justin
    • Mackenzie
    • Jonathan
    • Anthony, Alice + Nicholas
    • Jeff
    • John
    • Chuck and Peg
    • Add your name here
  • What are you doing?
    • Enjoy food and drinks
    • Show off koolness of KDE SC 4.4 on Laptops
    • Discuss KDE and other important stuff
    • Have Fun!

Phoenix, AZ

  • What are you doing?
    • Food, snacks, beverages (It's a coffee house!)
    • Ryan and possibly others will be giving talks on KDE
    • Demoes
    • Install and setup for interested parties
    • ???
    • Profit!
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