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From: Jonathan Riddell <>
Dept: almost-a-teenager
Date: Saturday 14/Oct/2006,  07:03
KDE Celebrates 10 Years of the Free Desktop
===========================================
Yesterday at 10:00 AM the president of the KDE e.V. Eva
Brucherseifer
welcomed the audience of the presentation track at the KDE
anniversary
event at the Technische Akademie Esslingen [http://www.tae.de] (TAE) in
Ostfildern near Stuttgart, Germany. Keynote speakers were
Matthias
Ettrich [http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Ettrich], founder of the
KDE project, as well as Klaus Knopper
[http://en.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Knopper] of Knoppix fame.
During
their presentations they looked back at KDE's successful
past 10 years
and they offered their thoughts about the future of KDE and
Free
Software [http://www.fsf-europe.org].
Jono Bacon, Canonical's community manager of Ubuntu /
Kubuntu
[http://www.kubuntu.org/],
congratulated KDE with his own presentation
about Kubuntu and KDE. Jan Mühlig from Relevantive
[http://www.relevantive.de/
] and Daniel Molkentin, KDE e.V. talked about
Usability and KDE 4. In the afternoon the audience of the
presentation
track met for a group photo and celebrated the event with
sparkling wine
and a big birthday cake. Even our Konqi mascot of the
project was
present - this time made of marzipan, right on the top of
the birthday
cake.
[http://developer.kde.org/~tackat/kde10party/kde10year
s1.jpg]
Right after the afternoon break the presentation track
continued
with a speech from Heinz-M. Gräsing from the city of
Treuchtlingen who
gave some insights about the successful migration of
Treuchtlingen
[http://www.treuchtlingen
.de/] to KDE. The presentation part of the
anniversary was concluded by Knut Yrvin, community manager
at Trolltech,
who surveyed the KDE 10 Years raffle together with Eva
Brucherseifer. As
prizes Trolltech offered a Qtopia Greenphone
[http://www.qtopiagre
enphone.com/] and Open Source Press
[https://www.opensourc
epress.de/] offered Daniel Molkentin's new book
about Qt4 programming.
[http://www.amazon.de/Qt-4-Einfhrung-die-Applikationsent
wicklung/dp/3937514120/ref=sr_11_1/302-0390506-7200839?ie=UT
F8]
[http://developer.kde.org/~tackat/kde10party/kde10year
s2.jpg]
Further KDE people arrived at the TAE in the evening
when people
met in the cottage for a delicious big "italian"
dinner. We clinked
glasses later at midnight when the date turned into the
actual
anniversary.
The KDE project would like to thank the speakers of the
presentation track, the Technische Akademie Esslingen,
Trolltech
[http://www.trolltech.com
] and Open Source Press for their support of
the whole event. A special "thank you" goes to the
confectioner who
created that awesome marzipan dragon for the cake. And of
course we
would like to thank all the people who were not able to
attend the event
and who sent their nice wishes to the KDE Project.
[http://developer.kde.org/~tackat/kde10party/kde10year
s3.jpg]
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