KDE Contributor and Developer Conference

Overview and Schedule (29th/30th of August, 2005)

Videos are now being uploaded.

Presentations will be given in English or Spanish. See schedule for details. Presentations in Spanish are identified as such.

Monday 29 Track 1 (Conference Hall) Monday 29 Track 2 (Grade Hall A) Monday 29 Track 3 (Lecture Room)
9:00->10:00
Keynote from Trolltech
Eirik Chambe-Eng
Transcript
Slides
10:00->11:00 QtTestLib, the Trolltech Unit Testing Library
Harald Fernengel
Slides
10:00->11:00 Multimedia API for KDE 4
Matthias Kretz
Transcript, Slides
10:00->11:00 Quanta and KDevelop
Andras Mantia
11:00->11:30
Coffee Break

11:30->12:30 Asynchronous Programming with Qt - Pitfalls and Techniques
David Faure
11:30->12:30 Meta-Programming Revisited - Web Services and GUI generation
Cornelius Schumacher and Tobias Koenig
Transcript, Slides
12:30->13:30 Developing plugins for Image Applications using KIPI
Jesper K. Pedersen
12:30->13:30 Multithreading in Desktop Applications
Mirko Boehm
Transcript
12:30->13:30 KDE Performance
Luboš Luňák
Slides (KPresenter), Slides (HTML)
13:30->15:00
Lunch

15:00->16:00 Beauty and magic for KDE developers
Zack Rusin
15:00->16:00 Software construction tools for KDE
Thomas Nagy
Slides
16:00->17:00 Aaron's School of Designer
Aaron Seigo
Transcript
16:00->17:00 Building LSB Compliant Applications
Waldo Bastian
16:00->17:00 Kexi - Database Environment and Introduction to KDE Database Layer
Jaroslaw Staniek
Slides (HTML), Slides (PDF), Slides (OpenOffice)
17:00->17:30
Coffee Break

17:30->18:30 Scribe
Simon Hausmann
17:30->18:30 The Poppler library
Albert Astals Cid
Slides (KPresenter), Slides (HTML), Transcript



Tuesday 30 Track 1 (Conference Hall) Tuesday 30 Track 2 (Grade Hall A) Tuesday 30 Track 3 (Lecture Room)
09:00->10:00 Marketing For Geeks
Waldo Bastian and Aaron Seigo
Slides, Transcript
09:00->10:00 A walk on the dark side
Mirko Boehm
09:00->10:00 Developing for KDE from for the MS Windows developer
Tom Welch
10:00->11:00 Create Multimedia Demonstrations
Rainer Endres
10:00->11:00 The State of KDE Language Bindings
Richard Dale
Transcript
10:00->11:00 KDElibs for win32
Jaroslaw Staniek
Slides (HTML), Slides (OpenOffice), Slides (PDF)
11:00->11:30
Coffee Break

11:30->12:30 KHTML/KJS/WebCore
Nokia
Transcript
12:30->13:30 Wikipedia: Collaborative content for the masses
Domas Mituzas
12:30->13:30 KDE.OpenOffice.org Integration Project
Jan Holesovsky
Transcript
13:30->15:00
Lunch

15:00->16:30 Novell Desktop Migration Study
Pete Goodall and Cornelius Schumacher
Transcript
16:30->17:00 "There is a K in microkernel" - Qt/embedded port to L4
Josef Spillner
Slides, Transcript
16:00->17:00 Changes needed in KDE4 to increase accessibility
Olaf Schmidt, Hynek Hanke, Jan Buchal
17:00->17:30
Coffee Break

17:30->18:30 Oxygen - smart graphics
Kenneth Wimer
Transcript
17:30->18:30 Text-to-Speech Solutions for KDE 4 Accessibility
Gary Cramblitt, Hynek Hanke, and Jan Buchal
Slides 1, Slides 2