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KDE 4.2 Release (Party in Slovenia) a Big Success
Posted by JLP on January 28th, 2009
Everyone, at least in the free software world, probably knows by now that KDE 4.2 has been released yesterday. It was released just a few moments after the release party started in Kiberpipa/Cyberpipe multimedia centre here in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Just in case you still don’t know about KDE 4.2 release, you should definitely read KDE 4.2 release announcement and take a look at the excellent visual guide to new features in KDE 4.2. You’ll see that the solid new foundations laid out with KDE 4.0 are really showing through now and the work invested into them is starting to pay off heavily. At this fast rate of development it is hard to imagine what KDE 4.3 will bring us. And it’s only 6 months away.
The party in Kiberpipa was also a similar success. Everything was not perfect, though. Computers that would be used for workshops didn’t have KDE 4 installed on them, but this got solved quickly and after the presentations ended all was ready for participants with most interest into KDE 4. Hopefully some of them become contributors in the future. Oh, talking about attendance… When the idea about the party started to grow inside my head, I was expecting about 20 people coming to the party. Well I was pleasantly surprised in the end. Somewhere between 40 and 50 people joined the party. Maybe the number was exactly 42 
Well in the following photo you can see some of us who were partying late into the night:
The presentations were recorded. When videos become available I’ll let you know. The slides will also be published together with videos. In the meantime you can read presentation notes about What’s New in KDE 4.2 and Plasma, which were taken by Jure Čuhalev, one of the participants on the party. Thanks to all who came to the party and thanks to all helping to organise it. Who knows, maybe we meet again in six months. Best wishes to all the KDE 4.2 release parties that are still coming. We’re up to 22 party locations now. Also twice as much as I expected when I started pushing for parties. And if there is no party near you, join people partying on KDE Forum.
Update 1: Photos from the party are available in Kiberpipa’s KDE 4.2 Release Party Gallery
Update 2: Videos from the party are available: Video 1 (Youtube), Video 2 (Youtube).
February 5th, 2009 at 21:28:58
I’m still waiting to see the videos…aren’t they avalaible yet?
Thanx.
March 8th, 2009 at 16:01:20
Sorry for the delay with publishing the material from the party. I’ve been very busy with other things until now and also ill for a week. I’ll do it as soon as possible.
February 7th, 2010 at 11:01:25
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