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Date: DD/MM/YY (preferably within one week of release on 25th of January)
Time: 00:00 - 00:00
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 4.8
- have a few beer
- have fun

Asia

India

Durgapur, West Bengal

Date: 04/02/12
Time: ~17:00
Place: NIT Durgapur
Organizer: Tirtha Chatterjee (wyuka) (tirtha DOT p DOT chatterjee AT gmail DOT com)

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Smit Shah (Who)
- Samikshan Bairagya (Samxan)

What are you doing?
- Who will give a workshop on developing for KDE 4.8
- Who, wyuka and samxan will give a talk on the ways to get involved in the KDE community
- Overnight hackfest (lots of fun + features + bugfixes)

North America

United States

Bellingham, Washington

Date: Saturday 2012-01-28
Start Time: ~14:00
Place: 2601 North Park Drive [1]
Organizer: Anthony Penzinski (anthony"在"penzinski.com)
Purpose: As the SuSE people like to say, to "have a lot of fun".
Details: Potluck meal, light drinking, stimulating conversation, strange eclectic music. Family friendly. Noob friendly. Microsoft friendly! ;^{)
Parking: If you come in a car, there should be room to park along Broadway in front of the Roeder Home, and along North Park Drive.

New York City

Date: Thursday 2011-12-29
Time: ~18h30
Place: Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Organizer: Jason Donenfeld (jason at zx2c4 dot com)
Blog entry: [2]

Europe

France

Limoges

Date: 26th of January
Time: 18:00
Place: IUT du Limousin (University of Limoges)
Organizer: Ludovic Grossard (grossard at kde org) / alternatives87

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Sylvain Floury
- Ludovic Grossard
- Alix Mascret
- Olivier Toussaint

What are you doing?
- talks (what's new in 4.8, highlights on some KDE softwares)
- have fun
- after that, have dinner together (gnu-bouffe as we say :) )

Toulouse

Date: 25th of January
Time: 20:00
Place: Le paradis du fruit - 16, bd de Strasbourg - 31000 Toulouse
Organizer: Jean-Nicolas (morice-net on irc) (jeannicolasartaud at gmail com)
Details: [KDE 4.8 release webpage]

Who is coming? (Add yourself [on the form] if you want to come!)
- Kévin Ottens
- Jean-Nicolas Artaud
- Find the list at the bottom of [this page]

What are you doing?
- eat healthy food and drink fruit cocktails
- have fun and drink beer, for those that don't like cocktails
- discuss about some future events around KDE

Germany

Karlsruhe

Date: 28th of January
Time: 19:00
Place: Stövchen (table is reserved for Pintscher)
Organizer: Lydia Pintscher (lydia at kde org)

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Lydia Pintscher
- Martin Gräßlin
- Kai Uwe Broulik (also celebrating birthday that day, will maybe bring a cake or something)
- Eckhart Wörner
- Thorsten Zachmann (depends on the exact date if I can join)
- Volker Lanz
- Frank Karlitschek
- Dennis Nienhüser
- Manuel Nickschas

What are you doing?
- have nice food and drinks
- talks? (Who wants to give one?)
- have fun

Ulm

Date: 27th of January
Time: 19:00
Place: Herrenkellergasse 4, Ulm (aka Hotel M & M)
Organizer: Mark Kretschmann (kretschmann at kde org), Myriam Schweingruber (myriam at kde org)

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Mark Kretschmann
- Myriam Schweingruber
- Manuel Nickschas
- David Weber
- Burak Aktas

What are you doing?
- Party
  - please bring drinks, finger food will be provided, but some awesome salad or cake is a good idea. Please coordinate with M & M :)
  - keysigning eventually?

Greece

Thessaloniki

Date: tba - likely weekend of 28/29th of January
Time: tba
Place: tba
Organizer: Kostas Koudaras (warlordfff at opensuse dot org)

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

What are you doing?

Athens

Date: tba
Time: tba
Place: tba
Organizer: Christos Loukas (commixon at gmail com)

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

What are you doing?

Larissa

Date: tba
Time: tba
Place: ATEI Larisas
Organizer: Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas (terietor at gmail com)

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas
- Antonis Tsiapaliokas

What are you doing?
- Have foods and drinks
- Have a nice time

Italy

Torino

Date: 26/01/12
Time: tba
Place: tba
Organizer: Vincenzo Buttazzo (vbuttazzo DOT yahoo DOT com)

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

What are you doing?
- Talk about 4.8
- Meet other KDE fans!

The Netherlands

Culemborg

Date: 27 January (Friday)
Time: 19:00 - 22:00
Place: KovoKs, Randweg 3-b, 4104 AC Culemborg (directions)
Organizer: Alexander van Loon (a dot vanloon at alexandervanloon dot nl) and Tom Albers
Other info:
- Please mention if you want to eat along with the pizzas so we know how much should be ordered. Please give a small financial contribution so we can pay for the drinks.

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Alexander van Loon
- Tom Albers
- Sebastian Kügler

What are you doing?
- Sebastian will give a presentation and demo of Plasma Active
- Pizzas and drinks will be taken care of.

Spain

Madrid

Date: January 20th (Friday)
Time: 22:00
Place: Pizza Marzano, Gran Vía, 69
Organizer: Albert Astals Cid ([email protected])

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come (or mail me at [email protected]))
- Albert Astals Cid
- Javier Llorente
- Rafael Fernández López
- Jaime Torres Amate (y mujer)

What are you doing?
- have nice food and drinks
- have fun

Barcelona

Date: Friday, January 27th
Time: 22:00 (to be confirmed, will make the reservation once we know who comes)
Place: Sant Andreu Jabugo. Plaça Palmeres 5, 08030 Barcelona
Organizer: Aleix Pol Gonzalez ([email protected])

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Aleix Pol Gonzalez
- Víctor Blázquez Francisco
- Josep Ma. Ferrer
- Albert Astals Cid
- Miquel Canes
- Carlos Cabezas
- Orestes Mas
- David Gil (as I am new and nobody will know me, my blog is Expolio Intelectual)
- Miquel Adroer (http://miquel66.caliu.cat/)
- Alex Fiestas
What are you doing?
- have nice food and drinks
- have fun

Switzerland

Visp

Date: January 27th (Friday)
Time: arround 19:00
Place: Restaurant Mühle, right beneath the main station
Organizer: Mario Fux ([email protected])
Info: After the LUGO General Assembly

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come (or mail me at [email protected]))
- Mario Fux

What are you doing?
- have nice food and drinks
- have fun
- Probably some demo of the new software

Finland

Helsinki

Date: 12/01/12
Time: 18:00
Place: Hiomotie 32, Helsinki, FI 00380
Organizer: Laszlo Papp ([email protected])

Who is coming? (Add yourself here if you want to come!)
- Laszlo Papp
- Juhapekka Piiroinen
- Aapo Rista
- Henri Ranki
- Mike Bradshaw
- Samu Voutilainen
- Jason Robinson

What are you doing?
- Talk about KDE 4.8.
- Have free food, drinks and sauna -> fun :)