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From: Jonathan Riddell <>
Dept: first-note-in-the-musical-scale
Date: Thursday 07/Jun/2007,  04:22
Akademy Keynote Speakers Announced
==================================
The Akademy 2007 [http://akademy2007.kde.or
g/] team is pleased to
announce the keynote speakers for this year's conference
[h
ttp://akademy2007.kde.org/conference/programme.php].
The opening talk
will be from Lars Knoll of Trolltech who will tell us about
their plans
for Qt 4.4 and their relationship with KDE. Mark
Shuttleworth
[http://www.markshutt
leworth.com/] of Canonical
[http://www.canonical.com
] will be talking on the 10 Challenges to Open
Source. On Sunday, Dan Kohn of The Linux Foundation
[http://www.linux-fou
ndation.org/] will talk on the state of Linux
Standardisation on the Desktop. Continuing the week the
Edu and
Schools Day [http://akademy2007.kde.org/codingmarathon/schoolday.php]
will be opened by Sulamita Garcia with a talk on Intel's
Classmate PC
[ht
tp://www.intel.com/intel/worldahead/classmatepc/].
Once the talks are over you may be interested in
refreshments, so
on Saturday we have at the Chateau [http://www.chateaugat
eau.co.uk/], an
evening of art, music and food. On the Monday we will be
welcomed by
Glasgow's Lord Provost [http://en.w
ikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Provost] with
a receiption at the city chambers
[http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/YourCounci
l/Council_Committees/CityChambers/].
The buffet at the reception is provided by our platinum
sponsor
Trolltech [http://www.trolltech.com
]. As previously announced, on the
Thursday our Day Trip to Loch Lomond
[http://akademy2007.kde.org/codingmarathon/day-trip.php
] will have a
barbecue on the beach.
Remember that while attendance is free, you must
register to come
to Akademy [http://www.kde.org.uk/
akademy/] (including Edu day and the
Text Summit).
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