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NewsForge: Report from the KDE World Summit: Day Two

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 24, 2004

“The second day of aKademy, KDE’s World Summit 2004, opened the
two-day developers’ conference, involving a series of presentations
and discussions both on ground-breaking topics like KJSEmbed and
other subjects important to KDE. When not attending the two
parallel tracks of presentations, KDE developers took the
opportunity to socialise and hack in the comfortable surroundings
of Ludwidgsburg’s Filmakademie.

“Saturday began with a keynote from Eirik Chambe-Eng, co-founder
of Trolltech and Qt. Eirik described what motivated himself and
Haavard Nord to develop the first cross-platform GUI toolkit and
development platform (principally that most existing tools ‘made
Motif programming look like good fun’)…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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