In this week's KDE Commit-Digest, Frederik Gladhorn writes about the current state of development in KDE-Accessibility.

As usual, there is also a change list that includes:

• Marble gets the first version of FlightGear position provider
• KPhotoAlbum saves the video length in a database; search for the length is also possible

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Dolphin view can be synchronized with terminal location
• Konsole has two new profile options for copy & paste mouse behavior
• More search options in Dolphin with Nepomuk
• Google Sync Bookmarks implemented in rekonq

LaKademy is over. April 27th to May 1st were days of hard work, meeting old and new friends, having much fun while realizing how far crazy guy imaginations can go. It was a great summit and sprint. Compared to the first (and only one so far) Akademy-BR in 2010, there is clear evidence that we are making progress building a strong and mature KDE community in Latin America. We met in a lovely hostel in Porto Alegre, Brazil and were well taken care of during the event.

Agustín Benito Bethencourt (aka "toscalix") recently joined the KDE e.V. Board of Directors. He will be presenting the KDE Community Keynote at Akademy 2012 in Tallinn.

Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. These updates are the third in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.8 series. 4.8.3 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.8 series and are recommended updates for everyone running 4.8.2 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. KDE’s software is already translated into more than 55 languages, with more to come.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Konsole gains a Web Shortcuts menu that allows searching selected text using any of the search providers; search scrollback is now possible in Konsole KPart
• New placement policy in KDEWorkspace: allow "under mouse"; work to include screenlocker into ksmserver
• Amarok ships the Free Music Charts by default; Amarok's iPod collection completely rewritten

The Akademy 2012 Program Committee is proud to present the Akademy 2012 Sessions. Given the broad nature of KDE, the proposals submitted contained a wealth of interesting and valuable topics. From those, 28 proposals were selected that we felt would address the most relevant topics and be deep enough in the areas of most interest to the KDE Community.

Google has published the list of 60 student proposals that have been accepted for Google Summer of Code 2012 for KDE. It means that 60 students will be able to work full-time on changing the world this summer! A big thank you to Google for making this possible.

Latin America is a big place with many opportunities for KDE; major deployments of KDE software are proof. Over the years, groups of KDE developers have emerged in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and probably other places. These groups work together to make a better KDE. As we know, meeting and talking in person is important to strengthen the bonds in a community. So we decided to organize a Latin American meeting of KDE contributors following the lead of the first Akademy-br in 2009. Like Akademy-br, the first LaKademy will be similar to a sprint for developers and one for people interested in promoting KDE in this part of the world.

The first LaKademy is taking place in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil from April 27th to May 1st, 2012. People were invited from Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Colombia. 12 known KDE contributors have confirmed their presence, along with 6 newcomers. Current KDE contributors recommended newcomers based on their abilities and their potential to become long-time KDE contributors.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Dolphin now uses KMessageWidget for error and information messages, and has faster file sorting
• Initial Fuse backend implementation for Solid
• It is now possible to save images from HTML mails in KMail
• OSRM (Open Source Routing Machine) is supported as routing backend in Marble