KDE 4.0 Release Event wrap-up
By Erica
Baker, Open Source TeamI had the pleasure of helping out
with the
KDE 4.0 Release
Event this past weekend. With attendees of all ages and backgrounds from around the
world, the event was a huge success. In addition to a great coming out party for KDE 4.0, it
was also the venue in which
Trolltech
announced it would adopt GPL 3 for Qt.
Thursday was
'un-conference' style with attendees organizing impromptu BOFs and breakout sessions. However,
a lot of people spent a good portion of the day discovering who else was there, as many of the
KDE developers and community members were meeting each other for the first time.
Friday was the big day with around 150 people and
2
dragons in attendance.
Aaron Seigo's
keynote was well received by KDE release parties going on simultaneously around the
world, thanks to the video streaming magic of
Franz Keferböck.
Many other speakers
graced the podium after Aaron, including the two Release Event Contest winners,
Kyle Cunningham and
Aron Stansvik. The day finished with cocktails and a
special
vintage provided by
Celeste.
Things wrapped
up on Saturday with a few more BOFs. Since we had all that A/V goodness going unused, many
attendees took it upon themselves to give a presentation or two. The most popular one was the
Amarok 2 talk given by Jeff Mitchell and Leo
Franchi (both worked on Amarok as
Google Summer
of Code students).
All in all, everyone seemed to have a
great time. Many thanks go to my co-conspirators Tiffany and Cat from the
Open Source Team, and to Wade, Franz,
Sebas, Troy and Jeff of KDE for their efforts in putting the event together. I hear that a
similar event is in the works for next year. Here's hoping
Aaron Seigo does karaoke at that
one too.
