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This page is for KDE's 6th Megarelease release party listings. Please follow the following template for readability and keep it sorted.
KDE's 6th Megarelease is planned for February 28 2024, of course there is no need to celebrate the same day.
We use the term "party" but it can be anything you want, a dinner, a meeting in a cafeteria, a talk in your local Free Software group, be creative!
If you have questions email [email protected] or [email protected].
An example of how you need to enter the information is given below :
Continent
Country
Place
- Date: DD/MM/YY (preferably within two weeks of the anniversary)
- Time: 00:00 - 00:00
- Place: 12 Krazy Ave, Krazytown, Krazyland (link to map)
- Organizer: Airplane (email)
- Other info:
- Bring your own beer!
- Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Brian
- Melissa
- What are we doing?
- Melissa will give a talk about cool KDE srugg, demoing new features
- have a few beers
- We sing KDE songs and play guitar
- eat cake with a nice 20 + KDE logo on it
- have fun
Europe
Germany
Berlin
- Date: Friday 1 March 2024
- Time: 19:00-20:15 Dinner, 20:15-22:00+ Party
- Place: restaurant to be decided, party at 'offline', Lichtenrader Str. 49, 12049 Berlin (U8 Boddinstrasse)
- Organizers:
- Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss [email protected]
- Lydia Pintscher [email protected]
- Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come; make sure Lydia or Joseph has your contact info or join https://matrix.to/#/#kde-berlin:kde.org so we can contact you when we finalize date/time/place!)
- Lydia Pintscher
- Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss
- Aleix Pol
- Aniqa Khokhar
- Shantanu Tushar
- Carl Schwan
- Volker
- Michal R. (vadorovsky)
- Shinjo Park
- Eike Hein
- What are we doing?
- Eat, drink, be merry
- Game ideas: https://discuss.kde.org/t/party-games-for-kdes-megarelease-6-in-february/9435
Nürnberg
- Date: 2024 February 29
- Time: 19:00 - 21:00
- Place: New location: ownCloud GmbH, Rathsbergstr. 17, 90411 Nürnberg
- Organizers:
- Klaas Freitag ([email protected])
- Dirk Müller ([email protected])
- Who is coming?
- Dirk Müller
- Cornelius Schumacher
- Hannah von Reth
- Klaas Freitag
- Tobias Fella
- Robert Simai
- Ignaz Forster
- Fabian Vogt
- Remko van Wagensveld
- What are we doing?
- Presentations (option to attend these virtually):
- Refresher on KDE History (Cornelius Schumacher)
- What's new in KDE 6
- Drinks, chat and snacks
Hungary
Budapest
- Date: 28/02/2024
- Time: 18:00 (to confirm)
- Place: A Grund (1082 Budapest, Nagy Templom utca 30.)
- More info: https://gettogether.community/events/48137/kde-plasma-6-kiad%C3%A1si-party/
- Who is coming?
- Áron (aronkvh)
- More people on Gettogether
- What are we doing?
- Demo of the new features in Plasma
- informal chat afterwards
Slovenia
Ljubljana
- Date: 2024 March 4
- Time: 19:00 - 21:00+
- Place: Računalniški muzej (Computer Museum), Celovška cesta 111 Ljubljana
- Organizers:
- Jure Repinc ([email protected]) - see this Mastodon thread for updates
- Matija Šuklje ([email protected])
- Who is coming? (add yourself, helps us know how many snacks/drinks to buy, you can also RSVP on Mobilizon event)
- Jure Repinc
- Matija Šuklje
- ...
- What are we doing?
- Presentation: Refresher on KDE History, show new KDE Plasma 6 features
- Try the old KDE 1.1 and Pingo Linux on a real old computer
- Play games on Steam Deck (gaming handheld coming with GNU/Linux and KDE software)
- Drinks and snacks
- Just chat
Spain
Barcelona
- Date: March 2nd
- Time: 19:00 for drinks, 21:00 for dinner
- Place: Craft Beer ArteSants, carrer Guadiana, 08014-Barcelona
- Organizer: Albert Astals Cid [email protected]
- Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come, make sure Albert has your contact so he can contact you when we finalize date/time/place!)
- Albert Astals Cid
- Josep M. Ferrer
- Carlos Cabezas
- Albert Vaca Cintora
- What are we doing?
- Drinks & Dinner - Email [email protected] to be told if the plans change at last minute
Málaga
- Date: 26th February
- Time: 20:30
- Place: Mesón Astorga
- Organizer: Agustín Benito ([email protected]), Paul Brown ([email protected])
- Who is coming? (Please add yourself to the list or ping directly Agustin or Paul since we will need to make a reservation since it is a popular restaurant, close to the main train station in Málaga (María Zambrano))
- Agustín Benito
- Paul Brown
- Antonio Larrosa
- Alberto Planas Domínguez
- 5th person
- 6th person
- What are we doing?
- Dinner in a good restaurant specialized in grilled meat. We will celebrate like there is no Plasma 7 :-)
- Team picture
UK
Cambridge
- Date: 29th Feb
- Time: 19:00
- Place: The Haymakers, High Street, Cambridge
- Organizers:
- David Edmundson [email protected]
- Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come or drop me an email)
- David Edmundson
- Jose Millan Soto
- Emil Velikov
- What are we doing?
- Going to the pub, have a nice cold pint and a hot pizza, and avoid looking at the incoming bugzilla emails
America
Canada
Montréal
- Date: 08/03/2024 (2024-03-08)
- Time: to be decided
- Place: Suite 33B, 999 du Collège, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, H4C 2S3
- Language / Langue: English / Français
- More info: currently ask on #foulab on irc.libera.chat (see also here)
- What are we doing?
- Demonstration of the new Plasma 6 features & bug fixes
- Exploration of the lesser-known apps that are part of KDE (like KGeography, Boko…)
- Hopefully convince some people to move away from proprietary software