conf.kde.in organisers takes immense pride and pleasure to present the keynote speakers of first conf.kde.in. Each of them is a long time contributor to Free and Open Source Software and KDE. They have been contributing to open source project(s) and are important members of the free software community. In no particular order, we list our keynote speakers.
Runa Bhattacharjee has been making sure that many Free Software stacks including KDE, Mozilla, Fedora and more are available in Bengali. Adriaan de Groot has been contributing code to multiple free software projects and he also deals with all important and cryptic legal work involved with a free software project. Lydia Pintscher is a community work expert and has been in fore front in managing yearly events like Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In for KDE.
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Runa BhattacharjeeRuna has been contributing to various localization projects since the past 8 years, primarily Fedora, GNOME, KDE and Mozilla. She works at Red Hat and lives in Pune. |
Traditional hues and Technology
We live in a world that is technologically changing at a far greater speed than earlier. The rapid changes have influenced lifestyles and the culture of people and places. As information technology, and modern communication became a part of everyday life, local flavours and indigenous cultural factors have also in turn influenced the way technology had been adapted. Members within the open source community are significant contributors to this pot-pourri of cultural intermixing – where cultures from various corners of the world come together yet stand out independently. With a powerful combination of passion, purpose and pride at work, communities can influence and define the future of a culture based upon traditional identity and technological advancement.
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Adriaan de GrootAdriaan de Groot is a Canadian by birth and a Dutchman by training. He has worked as a researcher in software quality and formal verification, is an experienced C++ programmer and an active member of several large Free Software organizations such as KDE e.V. In 10 years of programming he has worked on many parts of the KDE platform, focusing on software quality and portability issues so that all Free Software operating systems can use the software. Adriaan is a vice president (legal affairs) on the board of directors of KDE e.V. and a member of the board of directors of the NLUUG. He was coordinator of the Freedom Task Force (FSFE’s “legal department”) in 2009. |
Bits of Legal
Free Software is an interesting creature, because it “misuses” something that is typically restrictive for non-restrictive purposes: a software license. However, there’s much more to the legal landscape around Free Software than just the license. This talk will go over some of the ground regarding contributor agreements, licensing, trademarks, and other bits. It will be based on western European understanding of the legal basis of Free Software, but should apply to some extent in India as well.
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Lydia PintscherLydia Pintscher is a cat herder by nature. She studies computer science at the university of Karlsruhe, Germany and is doing community work for KDE and related communities for many years now. She is the community manager of the popular music player Amarok and a member of KDE’s community working group. On top of that Lydia is one of the administrators for KDE for Google Summer of Code, Season of KDE and Google Code-in – three programs to help people get involved in Free Software. In general she likes to help people make awesome things happen. |
So much to do – so little time
KDE is a successful, large and global Free Software community. It is the umbrella for a very diverse set of applications from music players, over office and education applications to hardware abstraction layers.
But what makes this community tick? What keeps it running? Who is behind it? And can you actually contribute something as well?
This talk will give you an overview of the community and areas to get involved in as well as how to take your first steps towards world domination.