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KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy"
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04/08/2004 — The KDE Project is proud to announce its plans for the "KDE Community World Summit 2004", code-named "aKademy". The first edition of this new international event will be held in Ludwigsburg, Germany, near Stuttgart.

Taking place from August 21st to 29th 2004, the Summit will include an exciting program of talks, presentations, tutorials and joint development, bug-fixing, design and polishing work on the leading Linux and Unix desktop environment.

All active KDE contributors (programmers, artists, documentation writers, translators, promoters and other supporters), interested KDE power users as well the general public are invited to come, attend and participate in the discussions and work.

The Summit is divided into sections in order to provide each target group its own forum:

KDE Developers' and Contributors' Conference August 21st - 22nd
KDE Improvement Coding Marathon August 23rd - 27th
General Linux and KDE User and Admin Tutorials August 23rd - 27th
KDE Users' Conference August 28th - 29th

In addition, the "First International Software Freedom Day" be celebrated parallel to the Summit on August 28th. http://softwarefreedomday.org/.

Detailed information on all aspects of the Summit including registration information will be available on the website http://conference2004.kde.org/.

The KDE Community World Summit 2004 is jointly organized and run by KDE e.V., Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH (WRS), and Linux New Media AG.

About the KDE Project and KDE e.V.

The KDE Project is a non-profit group of volunteering professionals and enthusiasts contributing to free and open-source software, especially to the "KDE Desktop for the Enterprise". KDE e.V. is a German entity of KDE members for handling legal matters (http://www.kde.org/areas/kde-ev/).

Contact information

KDE Project
Kurt Pfeifle
phone +49-172-715-7017
Email: akademy-team@kde.org

Press Contact:
Jasmin Ul-Haque
Novell, Inc
Phone: +44 (0)1344 326-900
E-mail: juh@novell.com

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