Mountain View Contest Responses

Hey guys, we're starting to get a number of replies to the sent out email invitations within the KDE community (predominantly 'yes' replies, which is great!), but we're hoping that people do not forget about the invitation until the last minute. If you got an invite, please let us know your status. For those that didn't get an invite, we will be opening this event up to mass registration in a few weeks (this includes the remaining sponsored hotel rooms) on a first-come, first-served basis.

Additionally, we started a contest to fly out one KDE user to this event, and we're starting to see responses (a dozen or so) of which most have come from Italy. What the heck is KDE doing in Italy that gives us so many eager users out there? :P Is our translation team just that cool? Are the Oxygen artists all rock stars? Do the letters KDE mean "Let's Make Love" in Italian? Ok, I kid.

Anyway, for the *users* out there that are reading the planet but not the dot (for some reason...), please go take a look at the contest news post so we can get some more submissions. Remember, this would be an all-expenses paid trip to the Google HQ to be part of the KDE 4 release event along with related talks and community meetings. And zack already confirmed that he'd be coming, so you don't have to compete with a contest submission from him :P

Cheers folks