"Earlier in the week, I conducted a lengthy phone interview with Aaron Seigo about the Open Source Desktop Workshop being held in San Diego on October 13th and 14th. Fast approaching, we discuss the workshop's inception, target audience and expectations."
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Nope. From the interview they are going to discuss other development options like GTK as well, but it is going to have a slant on KDE/Qt obviously, especially when it talks about porting of existing Windows applications. No other set of development tools has the infrastructure to do that apart from Qt.
And as for the OSDW acronym, it was considered that talking in simple terms of an Open Source Desktop (which is what KDE is) would give it more exposure and keep it simple for people. It's a bit like where some of the Gnome people have described everything they do as being a part of the Linux desktop. Some people may consider that to be jumping the gun, but it is nevertheless, somewhat accurate. Gnome is a Linux desktop (but it is not the Linux desktop).
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Sounds like it's more the KDE/Qt desktop workshop ...