Applications
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RC3 is Out: Codename: "Canny"
(KDE)
Just a very quick update: KDE's release team has made available the last release candidate before 4.5.0 comes out next week. Please give it another whirl and tell us about problems with this release. Tagging will happen in the next days, so be quick doing that!
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Simon at Akademy 2010: Interview with Peter Grasch
(KDE)
Troy: Peter, to begin, as a first time attendee of Akademy, what was your initial impression of the event?
Peter: Okay, there were a lot more people than I expected. When I arrived at the university grounds, I met a guy who was also looking for the entrance, and we started talking. This was the starting point for talking and it just continued from there - talking and talking and meeting people everywhere. It was really nice that I could talk about an issue I was having with KMail. Many other people also use KMail and knew what I was talking about.
- Henri Bergius on Akademy, MidGard, Open Collaboration Services and GeoClue (KDE)
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Linux Magazine Welcomes Scriptable Plasma Widgets
(KDE)
KDE software features on the cover of this month's Linux Magazine as Marcel Gagné explains how easy it is to create your own custom Plasma Desktop experience by crafting Plasma widgets using JavaScript.
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KPresenter Invites Creative Minds to Template Contest
(KDE)
Today, the KOffice team presents a contest to create great KPresenter slide templates, offering t-shirts for the winners and of course inclusion in the next KPresenter releases for all good submissions. Read on for information on the contest!
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Ever wanted your ownCloud?
(KDE)
Akademy is a great time to meet people and understand some of the exciting new projects and buzzwords in KDE. One project that has been generating a lot of interest recently is ownCloud, the KDE cloud computing project launched by Frank Karlitschek. We caught up with Frank to understand ownCloud better, find out about the current status, and plans for the future.
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Albert Astals Cid: KDE Edu, Okular, Akademy and Life
(KDE)
Last time in the KDE contributor interview series, we talked with the KDE developer Stephen Kelly from KDE PIM. We've been digging around in the KDE interview vaults and found this interesting discussion we had with Albert Astals Cid on 12 May 2010. Albert is well known in KDE from his work with KDE España, as maintainer of Okular and the KDE Edu applications. The original interview in Italian is also available.
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Dirk Hohndel at Akademy
(KDE)
At Akademy in Tampere we interviewed Dirk Hohndel, Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist (we would call him 'dude') at Intel. He was present representing Intel and checking out what the KDE community is up to. As he sacrificed spending the 4th of July with his family for this, we were anxious to talk to him.
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KDE's Flagship Conference Akademy Concludes: Pushing for Elegance and the Mobile Space
(KDE)
KDE met for its yearly flagship conference, Akademy, in Tampere, Finland. The event was kindly hosted by COSS, the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions. Akademy started last weekend with a two-day conference attended by more than 400 visitors from all over the world, which then blended into several days of designing, programming, discussing and working on the future of the Free Desktops. Important topics included mobile devices, community topics and many others. Read the full press release for more information.
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Successful KDE Finances Sprint Held
(KDE)
On April 23rd, developers from various finance-related KDE applications gathered in Eschborn, near Frankfurt, Germany for the first ever KDE Finance Sprint. The fellowship was composed of developers from KMyMoney, Kraft and Skrooge. This was a week after the ash cloud stopped all flights over Europe. Until the last minute, it was not clear whether those who were coming by plane would be able to make it. Fortunately, the airports opened just in time. Read on for a report for the meeting.
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KDE e.V. and KDE España Sign Agreement to Further KDE Community
(KDE)
During Akademy 2010, KDE e.V. and KDE España signed an agreement making KDE España the official representative of KDE e.V. in Spain. This will bring the international KDE community and the Spanish KDE community closer, while giving our local friends the authority to act officially as our representatives.
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Akademy 2010 in the News
(KDE)
Akademy is barely over, but tech news sites and mainstream publications are already reporting on events in Tampere. Read on for a summary of the news picks so far.
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Last Days at Akademy 2010
(KDE)
Unfortunately, all good things come to an end. Friday was the last day at Akademy and by the evening a few people had already gone. Others were sitting at Demola, scattered around the place or chatting in small groups. And some decided to stay at TOAS and use the public spaces there for hacking and talking. Read on for what happened in the last few days!
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KDE e.V. Quarterly Reports Relaunched
(KDE)
KDE e.V. is the legal body which holds our finances and represents the project in a range of issues. Our Quarterly Reports have restarted with a special bumper issue covering 2009 Q2 to 2010 Q1. It covers the many sprints which e.V. organises for our contributors to get together in person with their KDE teams. It also covers events e.V. has helped KDE to attend and the working groups it oversees.
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Planet KDE Goes International
(KDE)
During Akademy the promo team discussed the idea to have localized Planets in different languages. The same day, Planet Master Jonathan Riddell jumped on it right away, and already the Planet in Spanish is online.
Blogs from various Spanish speaking bloggers and KDE contributors are aggregated there. Everyone interested in what is going on in the Spanish language KDE community can visit the site where you can also find an RSS-feed for easy syndication.
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4.5 RC2 Available
(KDE)
While many KDE developers are enjoying, contemplating, hacking, discussing, designing, planning and promoting KDE's trinity of software products (The Plasma Desktop, the Application Suite and the Development Platform), the release team also found some time to make another release candidate available. 4.5 RC2 is now available in source form from KDE's FTP servers for everybody to give a test run. There is still some time to fix last minute bugs, so please help us by reporting them, so we can make this a smooth release.
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Akademy 2010: Almost Like Being There
(KDE)
Not everyone can make it to Akademy, although given the number of people here it almost seems like everyone did. For those of you not able to be here, we have been making great efforts to video the talks, capture the atmosphere through photographs and pick up some of the Akademy chatter through informal interviews with community members. If you can't be here, read on for the next best thing.
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Georg Greve on KDE and the Supporting Membership Program
(KDE)
At LinuxTag 2010, the KDE community announced the "Join the Game" campaign to support KDE e.V.'s Supporting Membership Program. The first new member was Georg Greve, founder of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). We caught up with him for a 'short' interview that turned into a two hour conversation about life, the universe and everything. The pertinent bits are excerpted below.
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Akademy Day 2
(KDE)
After a successful first day of talks and the Akademy party, hundreds of KDE contributors returned to the University of Tampere for the second day of the conference.
Read on for a summary of what we got up to and check the Akademy website where videos and presentation slides are already starting to appear.
- Impression of First Day at Akademy 2010 (KDE)
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Akademy Ready for Take-off!
(KDE)
In Tampere, Finland, the pre-Akademy party kicked off the conference last night. Hundreds of KDE contributors were there, meeting old and new friends and enjoying the party. Rowdy Brazilians and Dutch cheered on their teams as their countries battled each other in the World Cup on the big screen.
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KDE and Science
(KDE)
Free thinkers. Curious people collaborating across borders. Pioneers pushing back the boundaries of what is possible. Teams building upon the work of others. People trying things just to see what happens. Those are all phrases that could be applied to KDE - or to scientists.
A few days ago, your writer did a quick, albeit decidedly unscientific, survey to gather some thoughts of the KDE scientist community on our current software offerings and the missing links. Read on for some of the conclusions.
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Cornelius and Vincent Join Different Games
(KDE)
KDE has recently launched the “Supporting Membership Program” to raise funds for Developer Sprints, Akademy conferences and other activities of KDE e.V, the legal and financial representatives of KDE. President of KDE e.V. is Cornelius Schumacher and at the launch of Join the Game he made a pact with GNOME release manager and board member Vincent Untz that they would each join their rival's support programme. Here at the Dot we managed to track them both down for a quick interview - read on to see what they said.
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KDE Software Compilation 4.4.5 Available
(KDE)
Despite all the work going into 4.5, those of you wanting to live a stable life have not been forgotten. KDE SC 4.4.5 (codenamed "Ceilidh") is the last scheduled update in the 4.4 series and includes bug fixes and translation updates. Particular love has been given to beasties in Konsole, KAlarm and Okular. See the info page for where to download and the changelog for the details.
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Knowledge: A Different Approach to a Database on the Desktop
(KDE)
Desktop applications for 'Information Management' that go beyond conventional card-index style databases are hard to find. The ideas behind such software are perhaps not that well known, so a prototype program, Knowledge, has been developed to put them firmly into the public domain. Read on to learn about Knowledge and how you can help.
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Successful Spanish KDE Blogger Baltasar Ortega Talks to the Dot
(KDE)
On June 1st, 2010, KDE Blog, one of the foremost KDE-focused blogs in Spanish, celebrated the publication of its 1500th post. The occasion seemed to be the perfect excuse to chat with its author, Baltasar Ortega, and to ask him a few questions about himself, blogging, and how KDE is going to take over the world. Read on for his insightful and passionate answers.
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First Release Candidate for SC 4.5 Ready to Go
(KDE)
In the month since the second beta the KDE community has fixed hundreds of bugs. Development of features has been frozen for a while now and the Software Compilation is at the point where it needs a good testing to shake out the last issues.
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KOffice 2010 Summer Sprint Report
(KDE)
Hot on the heels of the 2.2 release of KOffice -- the first release we feel that users can give a try and use for real work -- the KOffice developers met in Essen-Horst in Germany, in the wonderful Linux Hotel. Thanks to sponsorship by the KDE e.V. and the hard work by Alexandra Leisse and Inge Wallin, we could spend three days discussing and hacking.
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What Happened at LinuxTag
(KDE)
Last weekend a team of KDE volunteers (wo)manned a booth at LinuxTag. As hopefully many of you have already read about (and maybe already joined) on Wednesday the new Supporting Membership program was launched. There is some more content upcoming, but for now we'd like to give you all a quick taste of what those four days were like.
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Introducing Your KDE Software Labels
(KDE)
A while ago, the KDE promo team organized a competition to choose a design for labels that producers of software within our community can use to show that they are part of KDE. Today we are happy to announce the winning designs. Read on for details of how to download the labels to use.
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P : Oh, arrête ! Sluuurp ! Gober un poussin, c'est moins faux-cul que de gober un oeuf !
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