Promo/Events/FOSDEM/2010/Abstracts
KDE SC 4.4 demo
KDE has just released the shinyest most complete version of its desktop yet. KDE Software Collection 4.4 uses the leading KDE Platform provided by KDE 4 to provide applications that cover the needs from netbooks to large desktop rollouts. Jos takes us through the new features in its applications and the progress made by KDE 4 in the last year.
Jos Poortvliet
Jos is a member of the KDE promo team. He lives in the Netherlands. Anyone accepting a lift home in his car from FOSDEM does so at their own risk.
PIMp My Desktop
KDE PIM is a suite of applications to manage your personal data. Paul takes us through the abilities of Kontact and its related applications. He will look at Akonadi the desktop neutral platform used as the backend for much of KDE PIM.
Paul Adams
Paul is a KDE contributor living in Scotland. He works for KDAB, a company who provide KDE and Qt services. He likes the word humungous.
KDevelop 4
KDevelop is the IDE from KDE. It can be used for many programming languages and environements. KDevelop 4 rewrites much of the application and is about to be released. Aleix will take a look at the features and give us tips on getting the most out of your coding time.
Aleix Pol
Aleix is a KDE developer from Spain.
Introduction to Qt Designer
Creating GUI interfaces is easy with Qt Designer. Sune will take us through making basic and complex user interfaces with this pleasingly easy to use app from Nokia's Qt division.
Sune Vuorela
Sune is a Debian packager on the KDE-Qt team. He lives in Denmark.
Spreading KDE with the openSUSE Build Service
The openSUSE build service is used to build and host packages for SUSE and other distributions. Will will look at what is hosted on the service and how you can add to it.
Will Stephenson
Will Stephenson has been a software engineer at Novell since 2004, responsible for developing and maintaining the KDE desktop for SUSE Linux products. He is currently part of the openSUSE Boosters team, working to make openSUSE an open project that anyone can contribute to. Will has been contributing to KDE since 2002, and his contributions to KDE include KDE Network Management, parts of the Solid hardware framework, the Kopete instant messenger, and the Kontact personal information management suite.
Amarok 2.2 Rocking
Amarok rediscovers your music. It sorts and searchs through your collections, music devices and internet music services. Sven will take us through the latest features in this rocking application.
Sven Krohlas
Sven Krohlas is a 26 years old computer science student at the university of Karlsruhe, Germany. He is a founding member of the Amarok promotion team Rokymotion.
On IRC you can contact him under the nick sven423. On a more artistic side he is a radio dj at darkerradio.com where he moderates the only German webradio charts show playing exclusively open music, the Free Music Charts, which are also integrated into Amarok.
KDE España
KDE España is the society for KDE developers in Spain. Aleix will tell us what it does and why it exists. http://es.kde.org/
Aleix Pol
As above
Coherence
Coherence offers a toolkit for UPnP.
Frank Scholz and Philippe Normand
Frank Scholz lives in Germany.
Nepomuk
Nepomuk makes your desktop semantik. Using RDF is provides context to items in applications making searching and sorting easy and fast. Sebastian will take us through how it works and what it adds for users.
Sebastian Trüg
Sebastian Trüg is a KDE developer from Germany. He wrote K3b, the CD burning applications and is the lead developer for Nepomuk. He works for Mandriva.