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<p> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE </p>

<h2> Report on the First International libcaca Conference </h2>

<p> Wednesday October 24, 2007 </p>

<p> Sam (ZOY) - Paris, France: <b>CacaCon’07</b>, the first international
libcaca conference, just took place on October 19-20, 2007 in Lyon, France.
</p>

<p> The most eagerly-awaited event of the conference was of course Jylam’s
keynote. The acclaimed libcaca second-in-chief developer covered the
history of the project, gave key figures about its current status, and
of course hinted at future plans. </p>

<p> The morning of the second day had been busy with uncalled for attacks
directed at the libcaca team by Mozilla Europe Board of Directors
president Tristan Nitot who reportedly managed to say that "all
applications have memory leaks" without immediately dying of maniac,
self-ridiculing laughter. Needless to say, Jylam’s keynote was
immediately refocused on insisting about libcaca’s superior development
model and giving examples of its speed, lightweightness and general lack
of memory leaks. </p>

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      <a href="DSC000013.JPG"><img alt="Jylam"
         width="68" height="90"
         src="tn-DSC000013.jpeg" /><br />Jylam</a>
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      <a href="DSC000011.JPG"><img alt="PowerPipo"
         width="120" height="90"
         src="tn-DSC000011.jpeg" /><br />PowerPipo</a>
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      <a href="DSC000017.JPG"><img alt="the audience"
         width="135" height="90"
         src="tn-DSC000017.jpeg" /><br />the audience</a>
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<p> The libcaca team eventually announced its new forthcoming product
"neercs", a replacement for the obsolete Unix utility "screen" with
full Unicode support, window thumbnailing, eye-candy transition effects
and textmode window management. The audience also sat in awe as Jylam,
literally knee-shaking in excitement, admitted that the very tool he had
been using during the keynote was not a Microsoft product or a cheap
clone thereof, but a development version of the libcaca team’s own
fully-featured presentation tool, PowerPipo. </p>

<p> <b>CacaCon’07</b> ended with a social event at luxury resort Le Chevreul
(Lyon) where hundreds of potential libcaca users and enthusiasts would
have been able to meet main developers Sam and Jylam. </p>

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      <a href="DSC000026.JPG"><img alt="Jylam and Sam"
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      <a href="DSC000029.JPG"><img alt="fan art"
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<p> <b>About libcaca:</b> <br />
libcaca is the industry leading colour ASCII art library. It is part
of a global conspiracy aiming at luring basement-dwelling nerds
into thinking that focusing on overtechnical, useless and generally
uninteresting activities is going to help them get laid. Approximately
700,000 Linux users still believe it to be true and frantically
recompile nightly git snapshots of the kernel as a consequence. </p>

<p> <b>About Firefox:</b> <br />
Firefox is the Mozilla Corporation’s rebranded version of the famous
Iceweasel web browser, to which they insist on adding a restrictive
trademark license and a suggestive yiff logo. Notwithstanding, we urge
you to donate all your money to the multimillion-dollar company. The
guys look legit. </p>

<p> <b>About memory leaks:</b> <br />
All applications called Firefox have memory leaks. </p>

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