KDE: a solution for business environments

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KDE: a solution for business environmentsLSWC’11 - KDE Espana

Agustın Benito Bethencourt (@toscalix)

November 10th 2011

Agustın Benito Bethencourt (@toscalix) — KDE: a solution for business environments 1/70


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2 KDE as a professional desktop

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1 AboutThe speakerKDE SpainKDE



The speaker

Agustin Benito Bethencourt (toscalix)

Linkedin profile

Blog in Spanish (included in Planet KDE-es)

Blog in English (included in Planet KDE).

Twitter: @toscalix

IM: [email protected] / IRC: #toscalix


http://www.linkedin.com/in/toscalix

http://abenitobethencourt.blogspot.com

http://toscalix.blogspot.com

http://twitter.com/toscalix


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KDE Spain

Legal Spanish association.

Trademark agreement with KDE e.V.

List of Members and statuts.


http://es.kde.org

http://dot.kde.org/2010/07/14/kde-ev-and-kde-espa%C3%B1-sign-agreement-further-kde-community

http://es.kde.org/quienes.php


Contact KDE Spain

Akademy-es: KDE Spain annual event.

Mailing lists: the preferred channel.

Planet KDE-es: KDE blogs in Spanish.

Facebook and Linkedin: KDE Espana Group.

IRC: #kde-devel-es in freenode.net


http://kde-espana.es/mailman/listinfo

http://planetkde.org/es/


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Free Software Community ProjectWhat is KDEKDE Software



Free/Libre Software

Check this blog post with links to definitions and furtherdocumentation (in spanish).


http://abenitobethencourt.blogspot.com/2011/06/como-comprar-software-libre-proceso-de.html


Community

A group of organisms or populations living and interactingwith one another in a particular environment. The organismsin a community affect each other’s abundance, distribution,and evolutionary adaptation. Depending on how broadly oneviews the interaction between organisms, a community can besmall and local, as in a pond or tree, or regional or global, asin a biome.

The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by

Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All

rights reserved.



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Formal definition

The KDE® Community is an international technology teamdedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computingexperience, offering an advanced graphical desktop, a widevariety of applications for communication, work, education andentertainment and a platform to easily build new applicationsupon.

Further information in KDE’s website.


http://kde.org/community/whatiskde/


Freedom

Standards.

Open and free formats and protocols.

No software patents.

Free licenses: GPL compatible licenses.



Identity

New solutions to classic problems: Akonadi, phonon,activities, Nepomuk, Solid, etc.

Great tools, APIs, bindings, libraries.....

KDE is integration and elegance.



Governance Model

Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model:

Meritocratic Oligarchy.

KDE stucture and organization.

KDE Code of Conduct.

Community Working Group.


http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Meritocratic_Oligarchy

http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/management.php

http://kde.org/code-of-conduct/

http://ev.kde.org/workinggroups/cwg.php


Expertise

15 years of expertise in the desktop field



A legal entity

KDE e.V. is a legal foundation based in Germany.

Local Associations: KDE Spain, (who else?)

Copyright Fiduciary Assignment.

Free Qt Foundation

Members of international organizations and consortiums:FSF, FSFe, OIN


http://ev.kde.org

http://ev.kde.org/rules/fla.php


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What does KDE community do

KDE Platform.

KDE Workspaces.

KDE Applications.


http://kde.org/developerplatform/

http://kde.org/workspaces/

http://kde.org/applications/


Different devices

KDE Workspaces

Plasma Desktop 4.7.2

Plasma Netbook 4.7.2

Plasma Active One.


http://dot.kde.org/2011/10/09/plasma-active-one-released


Different environments

Education

SME and big deployments

Public Administrations



Millions of users

Big deployments in Portugal, Brazil, Germany, France,India, etc.

Many companies using it worldwide.

KDE everywhere:

Linux based distributions: OpenSuse, Kubuntu, ArchLinux, Linux Mint, MandrivaKDE on Windows.FreeBSD, MacOS X, MeeGo, ARM and others...


http://windows.kde.org/


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2 KDE as a professional desktopBecause KDE is Software LibreBecause KDE is a free desktopBecause it is KDE



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2 KDE as a professional desktopBecause KDE is Software Libre

TCOFlexibility

Because KDE is a free desktopInstallation/update/boot processesDifferent architectures

Because it is KDEKDE is integrationCustomizationKioskPerformanceKDE is a development PlatformKDE is a community project



What do you get?

A development Platform

A desktop: Media centers, PC and netbook. Tablets soon.

Dozens of applications

A community behind the project



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Installation



Update



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Different architectures

Remote desktop: thin/thick client

Virtualization: applications and desktops

Mobile/remote profiles. Remote user space.



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Integration is the best feature

Plasma global configurations.

Desktop - application integration.

Application - Application integration.



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Plasma: extreme customization



Look and Feel



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Huge improvements

Huge improvements in the KDE 4 series

Disable Nepomuk and 3D effects in old computers.

Customize you distro to improve performance. Not muchto do in Windows and MacOS

Preguntar por comparativas de consumo de recursos.



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Much more than C++ and Qt

Bindings for C#, Python, Ruby, Java, etc.

Activities based on Javascript



KDevelop

Awesome app for developing for KDE.

Several languages supported.

Professional tool.



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Who is KDE

400 core members.

About 2 thousand active contributors.

Worldwide community of soft. developers, UX experts,designers, translators, etc.

Check any Commit Digest from the Dot. KDE development..... is alive.


http://dot.kde.org


Complex ecosystem I

KDE is not just a community of developers. It is also relatedto many organizations:

Corporations

Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)

Colleges and Universities

Governments

Non profits.



They trust us

Many IT companies are involved in KDE

Novell (Suse Linux).

Nokia.

Google.

Intel.

and many more not so big but equally relevant: Canonical,KDAB, KO, Collabora, Basyskom, Intevation, G10, etc..



Local support

Yes, you can find local support:

UFO Coders.

Wadobo Software.

Grupo Opentia

Castinfo.

You can also contact KDE Spain or KDE.


http://www.wadobo.com

http://www.cast-info.es/


Networking and marketing with KDE I

KDE EventsDesktop Summits

1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit 2009.2 Berlin Desktop Summit 2011

Akademy.Camp KDE: annual event in North America.Conf.KDE.in: annual event in India.Akademy-es, Akademy-fr, etc.

Sprints

KDE Quarterly Reports: official KDE action reports.KDE Sprints. In Spain:

1 Forge: Madrid 2010 and 2011.2 KDE-Edu Sprint: Bilbao 2011.

Other events


http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org

http://www.desktopsummit.org

http://ev.kde.org/akademy/

http://camp.kde.org/

http://kde.in/conf/

http://es.kde.org/akademy-es2011/

http://ev.kde.org/reports/

https://sprints.kde.org/

https://sprints.kde.org/sprint/25

http://community.kde.org/KDEEdu/Sprint2011


Networking and marketing with KDE II

International Free Software events: FOSDEM, LinuxTag,LinuxCon, FISL, Latinoware, Qt DevDays, etc.

National Free Software events: Campus Party, LSWC’10,LSWC’11, etc.


http://abenitobethencourt.blogspot.com/2011/09/p-li-white-space-pre-wrap-ayer-29-de.html


KDE has a shiny future

Media-centers, smart-phones and tablets: Android, mer,tizen, etc.

New environments/devices: cars and other embeddedsystems.

Web: ownCloud, web services

KDE on Windows.

KDE Development Platform 5

New applications



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3 KDE ApplicationsPIM and OfficeGraphics and MultimediaInternetWebOther Applications and services



Kontact

Integrated apps: KMail, KAddressBook, KOrganizer,Akregator, Kjots and Knotes.

Integrated with Akonadi.

Mobile version.



Office

Calligra

KWord: word processor.

Semantik: mind mapping application.

Basket: note-taking application.

Kile: LaTeX editor.

Okular: PDF visor.

KPlato: project management (Gantt).



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Graphics

Krita

Gwenview

Ksnapshot

Karbon14



MultimediaOther applications

Digikam

K3b

Amarok

Dragon Player



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Internet

Rekonq: browser based on webkit (based on KHTML).

Kopete: IM client. It’ll be replaced by Telepathy.

Konversation: IRC client.

Choqok: identi.ca/twitter client.

Blogilo: blog client.



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Activities

Social networks: facebook, twitter, etc.

Cloud services: gmail,

Easy to develop new ones for you corporative app.



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Other apps and services

Marble

Owncloud

KMyMoney

KDE-Edu: Kgeography, KAlgebra, Step, Kig, Kalzium,(mirar otras dos)

Social network: OpenDesktop.org



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