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This page is for KDE SC 4.4 release party listings. Please follow the following template for readability.

If you have questions about organizing a release party you can contact Jussi - jussi01 at kubuntu.org or Lydia - lydia at kde.org

It'd be great if you would write a short report on the event and send it to [email protected] or jospoortvliet atkdeorg, including some photos from the event. We'll then turn it into a dot story!

Country

<Place>

Date: DD/MM/YY (preferably within one week of release (9. February))
Time: 00:00UTC/00:00LOCAL - 00:00UTC/00:00LOCAL
Place: 12 Krazy Ave, Krazytown, Krazyland (link to map)
Organizer: Luis (email)
Other info:
- Bring your own beer!

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Brian
- Melissa

What are you doing?
- Melissa will give a talk about 4.4
- have a few beers
- have fun

Argentina

Buenos Aires

Date: 13/02/10
Time: 21:00UTC/18:00LOCAL
Place: "Araoz 1199" (between "Córdoba" and "Cabrera")
Organizer: Mariano Luna
Other Info:
- Bring money for food
- Explananatios and other stuff

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Ariel Kanterewicz
- Lucas Cardoso
- Tiverius NuxLux
- Alejandro Rean
- Mariano Luna
- Leonardo De Luca
- Juan Martin Muguerza
- Alvaro Soliverez
- Oscar Gentilezza
- Sergio Berton

What are you doing?
- Discuss KDE and other important stuff
- Have a few beers
- Show new features
- Enjoy food
- Have Fun!

Belgium

FOSDEM X Brussels

Date: 05-06-07/02/2010
Place: Delirium Cafe and ULB Campus Brussels
Organizer: FOSDEM 2010
Other info:
- see FOSDEM 2010 Wiki Page

What are you doing?

Brazil

Alegrete

Date: 10/02/10
Time: 1400-1730 UTC-3
Place: Universidade Federal do Pampa (UNIPAMPA)
Organizer: Wagner de M. Reck
Other info:
- At entrance hall. Be there!

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Wagner de M. Reck

What are you doing?
- Show off videos and demos
- Show off koolness of KDE on Laptops
- Discuss KDE and other important stuff
- Have Fun!

Belo Horizonte

Date: 11/02/10
Time: 18:00
Place: Frango Frito
Organizer: Amanda SCI
Other info:
- Be there.

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Amanda
- André Fillipe
- Krust
- Duda
- lamarque vieira
- Daniel Nascimento
- Anderson Viana
- Tulio Magno
- Leonardo Amaral (a.k.a. leleobhz)

What are you doing?
- Have beer/other beverages
- Show off koolness of KDE on Laptops
- Discuss KDE and other important stuff
- Have Fun!

Florianopólis

Date: 13/02/10
Time: TBD
Place:TBD
Organizer: Cristiano Furtado
Other info:
- Be there.

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Tomaz Canabrava
- Guax

What are you doing?
- Have beer/other beverages
- Show off koolness of KDE on Laptops
- Discuss KDE and other important stuff
- Have Fun!

Salvador

Date: 06/02/10
Time: 1400 UTC-3
Place: Faculdade Area1 (talks) / To be defined (party)
Organizer: Cristiano Furtado / Live Blue
Other info: Web page

Promotion Stuff

Flyers KDE Release Party and Ekaaty Day (Arts responsible: Erick)
Shirts (Arts Erick - Shirts Fac Area1)
Banners (KDE Release Party and Ekaaty Day (Arts responsible: Erick)

Others

Snacks
Support team

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Sandro Andrade
- Cristiano Furtado
- Henrique Watt
- Vito Chiarella
- André Brasil Wyzykowsky
- Alexandre Raymond
- Jordana Loppes
- Erick Goes
- Luiz Henrique N. dos Anjos

What are you doing?

Time	Talk	Presenter	Level
1400	Introdução ao Software Livre e o GNU/Linux	André Wyzykowski	Iniciante
1500	KDE 4 para Iniciantes	Sandro S. Andrade	Iniciante
1600	Ekaaty	Cristiano Furtado	Iniciante
1700	O KDE na Bahia e no Brasil	Sandro S. Andrade	Intermediário
1800	KDE SC 4.4 Release Party	Everybody	Your preferred fun level :)

Teresina

Date: 06/02/10
Time: 0930 UTC-3
Place: Chicao's place
Organizer: Chicao Fernandes / Pé de Pinico
Other info: PSL - PI

Others

Brocas (Food)
Suporte (Support)

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Francisco Fernandes (Chicao)
- Filipe Saraiva
- Aracele Torres
- Bianca de Oliveira

What are you doing?

- Apresentação do KDE (KDE Presentation)
- Descrição dos projetos do KDE (Description of the KDE project)
- Apresentação da versão 4.4 (Presentation of version 4.4)
- Compilação da versão 4.4 (Compiling version 4.4)
- Brejas :) (Beer!)
- Cajuína :D (A typical drink of Piauí)
- Sessão de piadas e imitações (Session of jokes and imitations), by Chicao

Canada

London, Ontario

Date: 03/02/10
Time: 19:00 - 22:00 Eastern
Place: Fanshawe College, London, Ontario (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.01251&lon=-81.20852&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF), room B1012
- Two hours drive from Toronto, or Detroit; much longer by sled-dog.

Organizer: Troy Unrau ([email protected])
Other info:
- This is the London Ontario LUG monthly meeting - coinciding with the release

Who is coming?
- Troy

What are you doing?
- Troy will give a demonstration of 4.4 to the LUG
- Discussion about hosting future Camp KDE event in Toronto region
- General hysteria: the group is dominated by Ubuntu users who have no idea how cool KDE really is - after being inspired by the amazing power we wield over our computers, they will begin to worship us. Soon they will be asking us to rewrite the driver stack, and fix their grandmother's pacemakers, which we can do via telekinesis because we are just that awesome. Later, we might make some mom jokes.
- Wrap up with some beer/pizza/etc.

Edmonton Alberta

Date: Feb 9th 2010
Time: 19:00 - 21:00 Mountain
Place: Edmonton New Technology Society, Edmonton, Alberta (map)

Organizer: Thomas Fjellstrom ([email protected])

Who is coming?
- Thomas Fjellstrom

What are you doing?
- Thomas will give a demonstration of KDE SC 4.4 to the attendees
- Wrap up with Q&A and whatever else people want to do.
- Food and drinks are allowed. Alcoholic beverages (ie: BEEER!) included. Thomas can't afford to supply any however. BYOF/BYOB.

Vancouver, BC

Date: 12/02/10
Time: after school
Place: Chani's house

Organizer: Chani ([email protected])
Other info:

Who is coming?
- Chani
- Scott
- At least one Jeff

What are you doing?
- Hacking, playing games, whatever seems like a good idea at the time.

Chile

Villarrica

Date: 13/02/10
Time: 15:00hrs to 18:30hrs or more.
Place: José Miguel Carrera #595
Organizer: Camilo Astete
Other info:
- Dinero para Cervezas
- Sistema de Respaldo (DVD, CD, Pendrive, DD Externo)
- Experiencias
- Intercambiar información

Quienes participarán?
- José Damián Garrido
- Jaime Vidal Sandoval
- Walter Manriquez Gebert
- Michael Campos
- Camilo Astete
- Rogger V.
- Tomás Gaete

Que haremos
- Conversar sobre KDE
- Beber algunas cervezas
- Divertirnos
- Hablar sobre la Comunidad KDE Chile

Hora	Tema	Presentador	Nivel
15:15	Introducción a KDE	Camilo Astete	Básica
16:00	Configurando KDE a mi gusto	-------------------	Intermedia
16:45	Mejoras de KDE4.4 a KDE4.3, probando liveCD's	-------------------	Básica
17:30	Mostrando aplicaciones de KDE, comparativas	Camilo Astete	Básica
18:30	KDE-Chile, iniciando una comunidad	-------------------	Básica

Denmark

Copenhagen

Date: 10/02/10
Time: 18:00 UTC/19:00 LOCAL
Place: CBS, Howitzvej 60, 2000 Frederiksberg
Organizer: SSLUG / Martin Schlander
Other info:

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Martin Schlander (cb400f)
- Nikolaj Hald Nielsen (nhn)
- Sune Vuorela (pusling)
- Morten Sjøgren (m_abs)
- Ole Baden (noviole)
- Björn Sveinbjörnsson (bjossir)

What are you doing?
- Presentation of some new features
- Demonstration of Plasma Netbook
- Talk about Danish translation of KDE
- Introduction to the KDE development platform
- Having a lot of fun!
- Just listening!

Estonia

Tallinn

Date: 09/02/10
Time: 19:00 LOCAL
Place: Kapp, Pärnu mnt 9, Tallinn
Organizer: Vaba Tarkvara Klubi / Laur Mõtus

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Laur Mõtus

What are you doing?
- Presentation of some new features
- Demonstration of Plasma Netbook
- Gathering ideas for future development
- Having a lot of fun!
- Just listening!

Tartu

Date: 09/02/10
Time: 19:00 LOCAL
Place: TÜ Matemaatika-informaatikateaduskond, Liivi 2-317, Tartu
Organizer: Vaba Tarkvara Klubi / Mihkel Tõnnov

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Mihkel Tõnnov

What are you doing?
- Presentation of some new features
- Demonstration of Plasma Netbook
- Gathering ideas for future development
- Having a lot of fun!
- Just listening!

Finland

Oulu

Date: 11/02/10
Time: 17:00UTC/19:00LOCAL - 21:00UTC/023:00LOCAL
Place: Cafe Bisketti, Rotuaari, Oulu
Organizer: Jussi Schultink (jussi01 at kubuntu.org)
Other info:
- Be there!

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Jussi
- Sari
- Muep
- Sysi
- Someone else?

What are you doing?
- Have coffee/beer/other beverages
- Show off koolness of KDE on Laptops
- Discuss KDE and other important stuff
- Have Fun!

Germany

Karlsruhe

Date: 13/02/10
Time: 20:00
Place: Vogelbräu http://www.vogelbraeu.de/karlsruhe/2_1_7.html
Organizer: Lydia Pintscher (lydia at kde.org)
Other info:
- ...

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Lydia Pintscher
- Frederik Gladhorn
- Marek Siller
- Michael Leupold
- Daniel Laidig
- Volker Lanz
- Nils Adermann

What are you doing?

- talks (who wants to give a short one?)
  - Doin' stuff with hot new stuff and the social desktop (Frederik)
- food and drinks
- fun! :D

Ravensburg

Date: 12/02/10 maybe 13th, depends on the members
Time: It begins when it begins
Place: We´re still planning (open for everything =) )
Organizer: Vamp898 ([email protected])
Other info:
- We play a lot of Music (mostly Metal)

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Vamp898 (right, thats me)
- n0p
- Yoshitaker
- Asakku
- fridgeboxx
- Ilja aka S-DeviL

What are you doing?
- Installing/Updating our KDEs and have fun with it
- Listen to a lot of music
- Maybe Karaoke (yes Karaoke with different kinds of Metal)

Nuremberg

Date: 25/02/10 (special post mortem wrapup party for Tokamak4)
Time: 2100UTC/2200CET
Place: Downtown, Nuernberg
Organizer: Will Stephenson wstephenson kde org
Other info:
- Bring painkillers and antacids for afterwards!

Who is coming?
- Will Stephenson
- Tokamak4 attendees
- SUSE Drunken Masters

What are you doing?
- Talking about KDE
- Drinking Plasma Bombs
- Listening to bad taste music!

Berlin

Date: 13/02/10
Time: sometime in the evening, lets say after 18:00. but I'll be around all day probably
Place: ask me (Milian), it will be the rented flat for the attendees of the Kate/KDevelop hacksprint that starts on the 13th. Hence only restricted space and not many people can come... other KDE/KDAB/Qt hackers will probably have most fun to come around
Organizer: Milian Wolff ([email protected])
Other info:
- if you are coming, bring something to dring and snack :)

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- apaku, cullmann, dhaumann, kling, ehamberg, nsams, milian, jowenn, adymo, beschow, ...

What are you doing?
- Get to know each other :)
- starting with the Kate/KDevelop hacksprint
- probably some mixture of drinking, talking, hacking, brainstorming, planning of the next week, ...

Indonesia

ULW 2010, Bandung (West Java)

Date: 10/02/10
Time: 9:00 am
Place: R. 4518 Unikom-Bandung
Organizer: ULW 2010
Other info:
- See the schedule here

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come, please!)
- Andi Sugandi

- M. Bayu "Rametux"

What are you doing?
- Talks about KDE SC 4.4 (Platform, Workspaces, and Applications)
- Having nice (local) ordinary coffee with local KDE Community
- installing KDE SC 4.4 on openSUSE and Arch Linux
- Having Fun!

Iran

Isfahan,Isfahan state

Date: 22/02/10 / (3rd Esfand 1388 in jalali calander for persian users)
Time: 5:00 pm
Place: Esfahan Central Library (Learning salon , Floor -2 , Central Library , Baghe goldaste St, Darvaze Dolat Sq)
Organizer: Persian KDE Members/Isfahan Users Group (IsfahanLUG)
Other info:
- Be there!

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Roozbeh Shafiee (ROSHA)
- Shahrzad Shojaei

What are you doing?
- Presentation of KDE SC 4.4
- Eating Release Party Cake
- install KDE SC 4.4 on debian base distros / archlinux base distros
- Have Fun!

More Information :
- http://KDE-ir.Org
- [email protected]

Kosovo

Prishtina

Date: 09/02/2010
Time: 16:00UTC/18:00LOCAL - 19:00UTC/22:00LOCAL
Place: IDI (Information Development Initiative) No. 34, St. Gazmend Zajmi, Prishtine (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.6562468707561&lon=21.1707079410553&zoom=18)
Organizer: Milot Shala ([email protected]) and FLOSSK Prishtina ([email protected])
Other info:
- Don't forget to bring food & drinks :D

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Milot Shala
- Dardan Fejzullahi
- Mehmetali Shaqiri
- Petrit Bytyqi
- Gent Thaqi
- Arianit Dobroshi
- Flakron Bytyqi
- Ardian Haxha
- Taulant Ramabaja
- Ardi Hasimja
- Valdrin Maliqi
- Shkelqim Ahmeti
- Altin Ukshini
- Lulzim Gashi
- Gemb Shehu
- Tafil Suhagerllaj
- Besnik Fetahu

What are you doing?
- KDE Presentation (including repositioning of the KDE Brand)
- Food & Drinks
- Fun with the community!

Netherlands

Culemborg

Date: Friday 12/02/10
Time: 18:00UTC/19:00LOCAL
Place: KovoKs - Randweg 3-b - 4104 AC Culemborg (http://www.kovoks.nl/contact/routebeschrijving)
Organizer: Rinse de Vries/Jos Poortvliet/Tom Albers ([email protected])
Other info: We'll have some demo's and stuff and drink some beer (it's friday after all). Anyone is welcome, but we have a limit of about 30 people. We'll make sure there is some food & some drinks, a contribution is therefore welcome.

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Arjen Hiemstra
- Tom Albers
- Jos Poortvliet
- Bram Schoenmakers
- Heinz Wiesinger
- Julio Foulquié
- Marijke Verkaik
- Micha Kersloot
- Adriaan de Groot
- Roeland Struijk
- Peter Vollebregt
- Jeroen Baten
- Cecil Westerhof
- Alexander van Loon
- Niels Slot
- Sebastian Kügler
- Eric Hameleers (tentative)
- You

What are you doing?
- Jos will demo KDE SC 4.4
- we'll then drink beer (or coke, if that's more your thing)
- we continue getting drunk (or acting like we are due to coke overkill)

Scotland

Glasgow

Date: 20/02/10
Time: 16:00 - 22:00
Place: Electron Club, CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD
Organizer: Kenny Duffus [email protected]
Other info:
- Enter via the Scott Street entrance next to the CCA Bar

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Kenny Duffus
- Jonathan Riddell
- Paul Adams
- Kenny Coyle
- Pete Murdoch
- Calum Morrell
- Will Nelson
- Jack Donaghy

What are you doing?
- the event will start out at the electron club with tea/coffee

and a chance for people to arrive and chat, we will have a play with KDE SC 4.4, later we will go for food and drinks.

Slovenia

Ljubljana

Date: 09/02/10
Time: 18:00 - 21:00 (16:00 - 19:00 UTC)
Place: Kiberpipa, Kersnikova 6 (link to map)
Organizer: Jure "JLP" Repinc ([email protected])
Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Jure Repinc
- Andrej Vernekar
- Andrej Čremožnik
- Luka Renko
- Miha Čančula
- Maja Poklinek

What are you doing?
- talks
- food and drinks
- fun! :D

Additional info:
- Facebook

Spain

Barcelona

Details can be found at http://cat.kde.org/index.php/KDE4.4_ReleaseParty

Switzerland

Gampel (VS)

Date: Friday, Feb 19th, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Place: Via-Gampel
Organizer: Mario Fux ([email protected]), President of the LUGO - Linux User Group Oberwallis
Who is coming? (Add yourself here till the 17th of February!)
- Mario
- Some members of the LUGO

What are you doing?
- Presentation of KDE SC 4.4
- Short presentation of Amarok
- Dinner at a local restaurant

United States

Akron, Ohio

Date: Wednesday, Feb 17th, 2010
Time: 4:10 PM - 5:10 PM
Place: The University of Akron, Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences building, rm 245.
Organizer: Trever Fischer <[email protected]>
Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Trever
- Other ACM members

What are you doing?
- Food, snacks, beverages (Sorry, they're non-alcoholic. Its on campus.)
- Trever will give a talk about KDE
- kool demos!
- It'll coincide with a regular ACM meeting, the members of which are predominantly linux newbies and pro-GNOME (but they're not sure why!)
- Free copies of Fedora 12's KDE spin (a fedora ambassador's gotta do something, ya know? :) )

Washington, DC (Metro)

Date: 12/02/10 - Friday, February 12 *Note the date change to Friday
Time: 7pm until people leave or we get kicked out (they close at 9pm)
Place: Fuddruckers, Columbia, MD (link to map)
Organizer: Celeste Paul/Justin Kirby (celeste at kde.org/justin at neomantra.org)
Other info:
- There is a pretty cool craft beer bar 1.5 miles down the road (Victoria Gastro Pub) if anyone is up for visiting after dinner.

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Celeste
- Justin
- Mackenzie
- Jonathan
- Anthony, Alice + Nicholas
- Jeff
- John
- Chuck and Peg
- Brian
- Katie
- Add your name here

What are you doing?
- Enjoy food and drinks
- Show off koolness of KDE SC 4.4 on Laptops
- Discuss KDE and other important stuff
- Have Fun!

Phoenix, AZ

Date: 20 February 2010
Time: 12:00 - 4:00pm
Place: Matador Coffee Company
Organizer: Ryan Rix <[email protected] >
Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Ryan Rix
- Other Phoenix LUG members
- Robert McKee

What are you doing?
- Food, snacks, beverages (It's a coffee house!)
- Ryan and possibly others will be giving talks on KDE
- Demoes
- Install and setup for interested parties
- ???
- Profit!
- (For those who use it): facebook event feel free to RSVP here, or drop me an email above. Matador doesn't have a large space, so we may need to move to Paradise Valley CC, which is right across the street. Having rough numbers would help to assess this option. :) Thanks