KDE Presentations
Oxygen-style presentation templates
If you are giving a presentation about a KDE-related topic, you can use these presentation
templates:
Generic KDE 4 talk
If you want to prepare a talk about KDE, you can use some of the slides and information in the following presentation. This is a rather technical presentation, aimed mostly at Free Software enthousiast, think geeks. Non-technical audiences would probably require a more end-user oriented approach like described below. Programmers interested in KDE development on the other hand would probably like to see some actual code.
A few pointers
You might want to explain FOSS first, and what it is, how it works. Why it works. I generally ask 'who knows the difference between Freeware and Free Software?' and take it from there. If the public knows that difference and understands FOSS, you can go deeper by asking 'and what's the difference between Free Software and Open Source Software?'. This can then help you explain the history and wider movement (Foss is part of (and inspired) the free culture movement - sharing knowledge and creativity. Think wikipedia and creative commons). And OSS points to the more practical advantages - an efficient development model which many companies are investing millions in, like Nokia, IBM, Intel and even Microsoft.
But for many presentations, the best way to go forward is probably not to try and enforce a completely new philosophy on them right away. Starting with the philosophy is good and vital, but keep it to the bare minimums.
You should also be careful with talking too much about the underlying technology. Mention it, maybe even show a few things, we have developed incredibly powerful technologie. But especially for a non-technical audience, it's time to know when to get to the goods. Show Amarok, Digikam, Krita and play with Plasma,... Programmers might like a short view of Kate and maybe KDevelop. KDEgames and KDE edu also have very nice things.
To certain public you could present a case study. For example for people managing servers you could show some neath remote tricks like the fish:/ kioslave and KRDC. Of course the case study could also be a series of demonstrations of doing common things in a very nice and effective KDE-way.
LinuxInfoTag 2009
FOSDEM 2009
Seminar Open Desktop Experience utrecht 2008
Software Freedom Day Netherlands - updated
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KDE, community, technology and Freedom
(OpenDocument)
by Jos Poortvliet.
FOSDEM 2008
FrOSCon 2007
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Amarok Community - Forming the Core (de)
(PDF)
by Mark Kretschmann, Lydia Pintscher, Harald Sitter.
Linuxtag 2007 Talks
CeBIT 2007
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Innovative and Robust
(PDF)
by Chitlesh Goorah & Mirjam Wäckerlin.
FOSDEM 2007 Talks
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Strigi Internals
(PDF)
(OpenDocument)
by Jos van den Oever.
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Semantic KDE
(PDF)
by Jos van den Oever, Stéphane Laurière.
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Strigi desktop integration
(PDF)
(OpenDocument)
by Flavio Castelli.
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Krita: Present and Future
(PDF)
by Bart Coppens.
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KDE4
(PDF)
by Jos Poortvliet.
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KDE e.V.
(PDF)
by Sebastian Kügler.
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Amarok
(PDF)
by Sven Krohlas.
DesktopCon 2006 talks
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Automated Source Code Quality Checking
(OpenDocument)
by Adriaan de Groot.
Holland Open 2006 talks
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KDE Community Guide (break into KDE)
(OpenDocument)
by Adriaan de Groot.
LinuxTag 2006 Talks
FOSDEM 2006 Talks
Other Talks
- Several presentations made by David Faure
- 15 August 2000, Kurt Granroth - KDE 2.0 Features (LinuxWorld Expo)
- 5 August 2000, Roberto Alsina (Jornada Linux)En Español
- 5 November 1999, Antonio Larrosa (Second Hispalinux Congress)
- 2 November 1999, Cristian Tibirna - KDE: Unix for the user
(Alternative: Linux - Montréal/Canada)
- 1 November 1999, Cristian Tibirna - KDE in a pill (workshop)
(Alternative: Linux - Montréal/Canada)
- 15 September 1999, Cristian Tibirna
(Marché International du Multimedia - Montréal/Canada)
- 9 September 1999, Reginald Stadlbauer (Linux Congress)
- 13 August 1999, Kurt Granroth (LinuxWorld Expo)
- 3 August 1999, Antonio Larrosa (Campus Party 2K-1)
- USENIX, New Orleans, 27 June 1998, Bernd Johannes Wuebben
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