The latest addition to the KDE web family is already a few days
old and in search of enthusiastic women coders, writers and designers.
The new KDE-Women website has set
out to do this and much more. The stated goal of the website:
"We want to build an international KDE forum for women by providing a
place where women can present what they already contribute to KDE and
where
women, who want to contribute, find a starting point. But the content on
these pages is not only for women but for everybody. By doing this
project
we actively want to contibute to the success of KDE." At the
website
you can already find tutorials,
a big bag of KDE/Linux tips &
tricks, a schedule of events, and more. If you are interested in our project, you can subscribe to
the
mailing
list
or simply chat with us on channel #kde-women at irc.kde.org.
You can also look forward to meeting some of us at the upcoming
events in Germany.

I have been in the progress of organising a KDE booth at the Linux Expo in London on the 4th/5th July 2001. I have some more good news in that we will also have a booth at the Linux Expo in Birmingham, at the NEC on 12th/13th September.

If you are interested in helping, visiting or funding (yes we need some funding!), please see the website I have mocked up here. Included are details on a proposed KDE Usability Study. Update: 03/19 02:08 AM by N: A new mailing list has been created for people wishing to get involved in the KDE Usability Study.

Many KDE Developers will converge the week of March 22-28 in Hannover, Germany for CeBIT (English). CeBIT is Europe's largest computer trade show with over 8,000 companies representing 60 countries in attendance. Torsten Rahn wrote in with details of what's
going on there with KDE:
"The KDE Project will be presenting a snapshot of the upcoming KDE 2.2
release at CeBIT 2001 in Hannover, Germany. There will be a permanent
demo point at the SuSE booth (Hall 3/E45) and live presentations on
the SuSE video wall. On Saturday, KDevelop developer Ralf Nolden will have a talk about KDevelop 1.4 at the SuSE booth. In addition, Ralf Nolden and Martin Konold will give separate KDE-related talks on Saturday at the Rheinland-Pfalz-Stand (Hall 16/B43). On Sunday, KDE developer Chris Schläger will give a presentation about the upcoming KDE 2.2
release at the SuSE booth. Other developers will be present as well." Update: 03/22 22:35 AM by N: A schedule for the KDE presentations is available.

All-around KDE guru David Faure (website) recently attended the Linux Expo in Paris and subsequently the OSDEM developer meeting in Brussels. Below he gives us his very interesting impressions of the events, especially how they relate to our favorite desktop.

We are proud to announce the first Open Source and Free Developers' European Meeting featuring Fyodor, Jeremy Allison, Richard Stallman, Kevin Lawton, Phil Thomson, Rasmus Lerdorf and more. David Faure will be offering a KDE presentation.

Linux Journal´s editorial Board announced recently the list of winners for the second annual LJ´s Editor Choice Award. KDE wins the Best Desktop Environment category. Notice that this is different from LJ´s Reader Choice Award that KDE won earlier this year.
Congratulations to the KDE community and many many thanks to Linux Journal, for the high quality tribune they produce for us and for this new award.

Our interviewer-in-chief, Tink, comes back this week with her entertaining suite of questions, this time answered by Sandy Meier, member of the KDevelop creators team. Go learn about Sandy's human profile and don't forget to visit his project's web page. Who knows, maybe you decide you'd like to become part of that wonderful team.

The German Linux solution provider
ID-PRO is auctioning a prototype computer for the benefit of a couple of free software projects, including KDE. On the occasion of PAUL's launching during the Systems in Munich, Germany, the prototype of ID-PRO's communication server, shaped like a prism and based solely on Open-Source software, will come under the hammer - signed by several well-known KDE developers, Linus Torvalds and a few others. The bidding started Thursday, 19 October 2000 and ends quite soon!

I'm pleased to announce that KDE received the
Linux Journal Readers' Choice award for
Favorite Desktop Environment at the Atlanta Linux Showcase. You
can take a look at the award poster. Congratulations everyone!

Cristian Tibirna writes, "David Faure and I will be present in the name of KDE at the LinuxExpo in
Toronto from 30 October to 1 November 2000. [...] If you will be in the Toronto area in this period and you will be available
for helping us present KDE in the booth kindly lended to us by the organizers
or you want to meet us, let me know ASAP." More information on LinuxExpo Toronto can be found at http://www.linuxexpocanada.com/EN/. If you're in the area and have some time to spare, consider making an appearance and giving them a hand!