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KDE Dot News goes live!

Posted by Navindra Umanee on Wednesday 20/Sep/2000, @22:48
from the and-about-time-too dept.
The KDE Desktop Environment project is pleased to announce the launch of KDE Dot News, a news and discussion site dedicated to KDE and supported by the KDE community. KDE Dot News is the response to a large and growing demand for a KDE-specific news site. We hope you will like what you find here, including KDE development and user news, discussions, feature articles and more. The only catch is that we ask that you help us out by actually submitting articles. Read on for a few more details.

Manifesto

The aim of this site is to help foster the growth of the KDE community by providing developers, users, and other parties a convenient means of making the community aware of relevant developments, as well as providing a means for public input for the general advancement of KDE.

Future ideas and plans for the site include exploiting the full potential of the backend, such as: providing different frontends, setting up translated versions of the site, providing news for the main KDE page, generating weekly summaries, and providing different sub-sections as is found useful.

Technology

KDE Dot News is based on a slightly hacked Squishdot 0.7.x, Zope 2.2.x, and Python 1.5.x, with an Apache proxy thrown into the equation. The site is hosted, courtesy KDE.com, on a beefy Linux server.

Credits

Thanks go to everyone involved including: Raphael Bauduin for writing several articles, Kurt Granroth for the site logo, Andreas Pour for the web hosting and for hours of technical and admin level support, Navindra Umanee for hours spent installing, customizing, testing and debugging the site, and Nadia D'Alfonso, Serge Arsenault, Victor Calzado, Matthias Elter, David Faure, Serena Fenton, Arnt Gulbrandsen, Martin Konold, Ulrich Schreiner, Casey Allen Shobe, Bill Soudan, Cristian Tibirna, and Robert Williams for their input, suggestions, admin or article contributions, and, last but not least, the KDE artists for all the icons and art that were shamelessly "borrowed" from KDE CVS.

Comments or suggestions? Click on the Reply link below! Otherwise, we can be reached at dot@kdenews.org and bug reports on the beta site can be sent to bugs@kdenews.org.

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Keep you site clean
by Matthias Lange on Thursday 21/Sep/2000, @01:57

Congratulations on the idea and its implementation. This site is a worthwhile addition to the existing newsgroups, as you can drop by at any time and check whats up. It is delighting to see such a clean, fresh and plain layout, compared to such a monster of a html page as slashdot. keep up the good work -- is it me or is the world spinning?

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Re: Keep you site clean
by Navindra Umanee on Thursday 21/Sep/2000, @02:04

Hee hee hee. Making "Plain Text" the default posting mode was definitely something I was planning to do. It seems to have disappeared from my TODO list what with all commotion. ;)

Thanks for your kind comments!

Cheers,
Navin.

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Keep you site clean
by Matthias Lange on Thursday 21/Sep/2000, @01:57

Congratulations on the idea and its implementation. This site is a worthwhile addition to the existing newsgroups, as you can drop by
at any time and check whats up.

It is delighting to see such a clean, fresh and
plain layout, compared to such a monster of a html
page as slashdot.

keep up the good work
--
is it me or is the world spinning?

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Re: KDE Dot News goes live!
by raphinou on Thursday 21/Sep/2000, @03:26

Just a little addition: the site is also accessible through the kdenews.org URL, easier to remember I think ;-)

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Re: KDE Dot News goes live!
by ((c3k::: on Thursday 21/Sep/2000, @03:33

Well, this is exactly that kind of site i was looking for since months and hoped to find in kde.com ;-)

Please feel yourself bookmarked by myself on my company machine (win f***ing dows) as well as at home on my beloved Red Hat 6.2 :-))

Keep the faith, I will keep my KDE... ;-)

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Re: KDE Dot News goes live!
by Raphael on Monday 18/Jul/2005, @06:07

Hi there, I've just installed SUSE 9.3 in my toshiba notebook, and after the installation i noticed that the KDE interface does not start anymore (sorry, i forgot to tell that before the SUSE 9.3 I was runnig SUSE 9.0 on the same computer and everithing was working fine). When I start the environment in SAFE mode he works fine, but with the normal login nothing happens. Does anybody knows why ?

Thanks in advance,

Raphael

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Re: KDE Dot News goes live!
by ac on Monday 18/Jul/2005, @07:30

Replying to a five years old message surely won't gain you the answer you look for... as for your SUSE stuff SUSE does have extensive community mailing list where you should ask instead.

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Re: KDE Dot News goes live!
by Harri Porten on Thursday 21/Sep/2000, @05:22

Congratulations from me, too. I'm looking forward to see lots of interesting discussions here. KDE Dot News will certainly server as a good forum for user and developers. Harri. P.S. This more than a pure test of the posting mechanism :)

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Great!!!
by Vad on Thursday 21/Sep/2000, @13:03

Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed to making this happen! This is definitely a site I have been waiting for, and will visit often.

Cheers.

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Those copycat Gnomers...
by Alfhiem on Thursday 21/Sep/2000, @18:26

KDE Dot News is only a few days old, and already they've copied it!

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Re: Those copycat Gnomers...
by Navindra Umanee on Thursday 21/Sep/2000, @18:38

Oh yes, I was totally inspired by that site. I had always liked it very much and I was impressed by how useful the concept turned out to be. Where's the harm in that?

I did try to avoid some of their mistakes though. For example, you don't see any annoying redirections here and you don't have Netscape or Konqi trying to connect to NNTP when you type in a short URL. Although you *can* use http://news.kde.org/ if you want to. ;-)

Cheers,
Navin.

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More Community
by Brandon Kelton on Saturday 23/Sep/2000, @20:01

I think it's cool that I can now browse through ongoing comments and discussions on the progress and thoughts of KDE. As soon as I got into Linux (SuSE flavor) and found KDE I stopped with KDE as it was the cleanest, most organized, and easy to use out of all the other GUI's. I tried Gnome, but it was too awkward for me. I'm totally looking forward to KDE 2.0 and have been for probably 1 to 2 years now. I CAN'T WAIT!!!

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