Hi,
Happy new year to you all. Please forward this email to various Linux/FOSS user groups in your city, college any where you think it should reach. Thank you in advance.
We are very excited to announce the second edition of conf.kde.in, the biggest KDE conference in India. This three day conference scheduled in February will bring together Qt developers, KDE contributors, open source enthusiasts and users from all across the nation. The event will give you the opportunity to learn, share, contribute, innovate and create while providing you endless possibilities with Qt/KDE technologies.
conf.kde.in is an excellent platform for you to learn about FOSS and start contributing to it. The participants will be introduced to the KDE community, and shall also be given an overview of the latest developments in it. The talks, interactive sessions shall help strengthen your basis and shall familiarize you with what it’s like to be a part of the KDE community and help you to contribute to KDE SC and maybe for future participation in programs like Google Summer of Code and Season of KDE. Last year, KDE was the largest participating organizing in GSoC with a selection of 60 students.The sessions will range from the beginner to the advanced level, to facilitate all kinds of participants.
*Talks*
There shall be a vibrant gamut of talks at the event; ranging over a variety of technical as well as non technical talks covered by members of the KDE community from the extremes of India as well as the world. Be a witness to this cultural as well as intellectual infusion of ideas and experiences, of knowledge and guidance; by people from different walks of life, all with a common passion - open source, KDE; ready to ignite the same passion in you through their words and their minds.
1. How I got involved in KDE and How to attack a problem - Sujith H
2. Hacking on KStars: Progress and challenges - Rishab Arora
3. One app to rule all your media - Sinny Kumari
4. KDE unlike a coconut - Smit Shah
5. Plasma Workspace 2: Little introduction - Bhushan Shah
6. Baloo - Metadata and Search - Vishesh Handa
7. Cute (Qt) C++ idioms - Nikhil Marathe
8. Qt Project - Frederik Gladhorn
9. Language learning with KDE - Samikshan Bairagya
10.Effective Open-Source Speech Recognition in Your Application - Peter Grasch
11.Where KDE is and where it is going - Jos Poortvliet
12. C++11: A Language Renaissance - Kévin Ottens
The above is the incomplete list of talks, we are adding more talks as we get confirmation from the speakers. The updated list of talks can be found at http://kde.in/conf/accepted-talks.
Every speaker at conf.kde.in is a bonafide contributor to KDE, some of them contributing over a decade. Attending the conference will give you the opportunity to meet seasoned open source contributors, discuss with them, exchange ideas with them, learn from them and also teach them something new.
Many of these contributors work for great companies (which themselves are involved in various open source projects) like Mozilla, openSUSE, Red Hat, Blue Systems, ThoughtWorks, KDAB, Digia etc. Also you will find that many of these contributors were students until recently.
*Wondering what KDE/Qt is?*
KDE is one of the largest international free software community. It has an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and OS X systems. KDE is known for its Plasma Workspace, an environment provided as the default working environment on many Linux distributions, such as Kubuntu, Pardus, and openSUSE.
To find more information about KDE, please visit http://www.kde.org/
Qt is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used for developing application software with a graphical user interface (GUI) and also used for developing non-GUI programs such as command- line tools and consoles for servers. Qt is most notably used in Adobe Photoshop Elements, Skype, VLC media player, VirtualBox, Dassault DraftSight and Mathematica, and by the European Space Agency, DreamWorks, Google, HP, KDE, Lucasfilm, Autodesk Maya, The Foundry's Nuke, Panasonic, Philips, Blackberry applications, Samsung, Siemens, Volvo, Walt Disney, Animation Studios and Research In Motion. Qt runs on multiple platforms which include Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, Embedded Linux, Blackberry 10, Android, Sailfish and Ubuntu Phone OS.
To find more information about Qt, please visit http://qt-project.org/
*Details about conf.kde.in*:
Venue: Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar
Date: 21st - 23rd Feb, 2014
Time: 9 AM - 6:30 PM
The registrations for the conference are now open. Please register yourself here (http://cki2014.doattend.com/) and avail the “Early Bird” discount till 15th Jan. There are limited seats so hurry up! You will find accommodation options at http://conf.kde.in/accommodation.
We are working very hard to make conf.kde.in 2014 a huge success. And it will happen with the help of your participation. Looking forward to meet you all. Stay tuned for regular updates about this event on our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/kdeindia) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/kdeindia) page.
For any queries, feel free to reach us at conf@kde.in
Cheers,
Pradeepto