Hum… I guess it’s been a while since I last blogged. This time however I have something to show off: Till’s and my presentation at CampKDE is on YouTube. And without further ado — enjoy the show.
The slides are quite visible in the video but I thought embedding them here wouldn’t hurt.
If you are interested in the rest of the talks, head over to the KDE Promo channel on YouTube and take a look. Slides are available from here.
After having a quick chat with Kévin Ottens on IRC we agreed that it would be useful to write up a small how-to explaining the Art of Booth Organization™ as a follow up on the how-to for sprints I posted earlier. He has been poking me about it repeatedly, so voilà, Monsieur, finalement, c’est fait.
While writing down all those steps I realized that organizing a booth is more complex than I thought. Chances are high that I have forgotten something more or less important. The comment section is yours!
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Let’s say you come across an interesting event in your area or elsewhere and you think KDE should be present and have a stand in whatever shape and size. How do you proceed?
This is obviously the first step. Usually, the call for projects closes several weeks before the event takes place. As soon as it is open and you have decided that you’d like to be there send an email to the kde-promo list. Ask if anybody has already registered a booth and/or would be interested to organize one together with yourself.
Go to kde.org and copy and paste the usual about blurb on the front page for the registration or look for one of the translated versions. It keeps things consistent and saves you a lot of thinking. Read the rest of this entry »
We are approaching the release of Qt 4.6. To make it rock as much as we can we have just started a beta program where we collect feedback. If you’re interested in joining, please read the details on Volker’s blog.
The program is open to everybody and and joining is not needed to test the beta.
Social Network by Luc Legay
I have been thinking. This is not quite unusual but this time it had a reason: Augustín’s blog about Social Networks and Lydia’s identi.ca review.
With the introduction of so called Social Networks and Social Features on a lot of websites, the way we see and use the internet has changed from broadcasting to joining conversations.
The good news is that KDE – like most FLOSS communities – is very well set. Read the rest of this entry »