KDE 4.0.0 Release Event . in
We are very close to the release of much awaited KDE 4.0.0. Its been slightly more than 2 years since the community started out on this mission called "KDE4". Now we are at the doorstep of this new era. To commemorate the release of KDE 4.0.0, a main event is going to be organised at Google Campus, Mountain View, California. Also other events will be held in different parts of the world by the local KDE communities.
KDE-India will also have a commemorative event(s). For now, one event has been decided in Mumbai. Local communities are encouraged to have more such events. Details for the Mumbai event will follow. Mumbai event is planned to be held in association with the local lug - glug-bom on 20th January 2008.
It would really cool to have such an event because such events and meetings foster new developers/contributors to the project. Speaking of new members who have recently started working for KDE ( and / or are doing it since some time ) are - Runa Bhattacharjee ( KDE - Bengali Translation ), Tejas Dinkar ( Kopete Bonjour plug in ), Arindam "mak" Ghosh ( KDE - Bengali Translation / Awesome KGeography tutorials and more ), Sri Ramadhas ( KDE - Tamil Translation, but he is a seasoned dude by now ), my favorite twit - Sharan Rao ( now also works on Kexi, thanks Jaroslaw S for mentoring him, appreciate it ), Kushal Das ( for the lovely videos you have been creating, nice patch for KGeography btw ). Runa and Tejas actually just got their svn accounts few weeks back and its wonderful to see their commits. Can never forget Anurag, Barkha, Roshan, Kamal for every minute of slogging that you folks did in last 2-3 of months. I am afraid, more work coming up.Cheers! Of and thats not over yet, some more new people and some new work happening.
Update about translation - after reading yesterday's blog post Lauris Bukšis-Haberkorns from Latvia contacted me and volunteered to translate the announcement to Latvian. Did all the co-ordination work, got it checked by the Latvian team leaders and sent back the translated announcement. Thanks Lauris Bukšis-Haberkorns :). There is still time, if anybody is still interested - please mail me ( especially if you are one of the Indian Language translators) or Albert Astals Cid (TSDgeos) ( aacid ATTT kde D00T org ).
KDE-India will also have a commemorative event(s). For now, one event has been decided in Mumbai. Local communities are encouraged to have more such events. Details for the Mumbai event will follow. Mumbai event is planned to be held in association with the local lug - glug-bom on 20th January 2008.
It would really cool to have such an event because such events and meetings foster new developers/contributors to the project. Speaking of new members who have recently started working for KDE ( and / or are doing it since some time ) are - Runa Bhattacharjee ( KDE - Bengali Translation ), Tejas Dinkar ( Kopete Bonjour plug in ), Arindam "mak" Ghosh ( KDE - Bengali Translation / Awesome KGeography tutorials and more ), Sri Ramadhas ( KDE - Tamil Translation, but he is a seasoned dude by now ), my favorite twit - Sharan Rao ( now also works on Kexi, thanks Jaroslaw S for mentoring him, appreciate it ), Kushal Das ( for the lovely videos you have been creating, nice patch for KGeography btw ). Runa and Tejas actually just got their svn accounts few weeks back and its wonderful to see their commits. Can never forget Anurag, Barkha, Roshan, Kamal for every minute of slogging that you folks did in last 2-3 of months. I am afraid, more work coming up.Cheers! Of and thats not over yet, some more new people and some new work happening.
Update about translation - after reading yesterday's blog post Lauris Bukšis-Haberkorns from Latvia contacted me and volunteered to translate the announcement to Latvian. Did all the co-ordination work, got it checked by the Latvian team leaders and sent back the translated announcement. Thanks Lauris Bukšis-Haberkorns :). There is still time, if anybody is still interested - please mail me ( especially if you are one of the Indian Language translators) or Albert Astals Cid (TSDgeos) ( aacid ATTT kde D00T org ).