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KDE4: The dawn of a new desktop

von Sebastian Kugler (K Desktop Environment e.V.)

Donnerstag, 31.05.2007, Saal 3: Berlin, 12:00-13:00 Uhr

The KDE 4.0 release is one of the most anticipated software events in the Free software desktop world today. This talk takes us on a tour of what KDE 4 will bring to your desktop with technologies such as Plasma, Solid, Phonon, SVG and more as well as take a look at some of the new and updated applications that will be arriving with KDE 4.0 including the Okular universal reader and the groupware Akonadi system. We will wrap up with an overview of the community behind and around KDE at how you too can get involved in a variety of ways, ranging from software development to documentation to quality assurance to translating to promotion, and help KDE 4 be the best desktop the world has seen in the process.

Über den Autor Sebastian Kugler:

Originally from Germany, Sebastian Kügler studied
Business Administration at the University of Nijmegen in the
Netherlands. He is currently employed be the Department of Computer
Science at the same university where he works on two Open Source
related projects. He is researching quality metrics to form a
European standard for Open Source software services and in another
project, CodeYard, he is guiding secondary education students into
the world of Open Source software development by participating in
an Open Source digital schoolyard.

Sebastian participates in the SQO-OSS project on behalf of KDE. The
project aims to do research into quality improvement tools for Free
Software.

Together with others, Sebastian set up the KDE Marketing Working
Group during last summer's KDE world summit in Malaga, Spain and
has since then become one of the thought leaders in marketing the
free desktop. Areas of interest of this work range from coordination
of existing activities over relationship management to scientific
marketing research. Sebastian was elected as Board Member of the KDE
e.V. in September 2007.

He is dedicated to push the Free Desktop into the mainstream market
over the next years by professionalising organisational activities
conducted in the KDE projects, but he also wants his work to serve
as an example route for other projects to take.