At Camp KDE in Jamaica, the Sunday offered about various topics. We had Guillermo Amaral talk about what is going on in Mexico, Leo Franchi about Amarok, Orville about KDE-on-Mac and many more. Read on for a short summary of those talks.

Last week, the KDE 4.2 release was not only received well in several reviews, but also celebrated by contributors and users on a global scale. A number of release parties were organised by enthusiasts, often with surprisingly high numbers of participants.

The program for the first two days at the Camp KDE meeting in Jamaica provided the attendants with a series of talks. In time, these will be available in video from but for now we have these short summaries of the talks. Read on for details.

In a warm Jamaica around thirty KDE developers have gathered for the first Camp KDE. The following article is an impression of the first days of this event, a short summary of what is going on here. Read on for the full report!

Having met so many of you at Akademy last year, I am now glad to notify you guys that we have approval from Bayero University Kano Nigeria to host the Free and Open Source Nigeria 2009 conference on 6th to 9th March. We want to invite KDE contributors and users including organisations and companies who want to come and give talks or workshops during the event. We are expecting more than 2000 participants from within and outwith the university. We will be glad to receive guests from all over the world, especially people with vast experiences in open source.

On January 27, a year after the release of the first KDE 4 version, KDE 4.2 "The Answer" will be released. This release will feature stabilisation and feature completion and is likely to be taken up by a wide audience of users. To celebrate the important event in KDE's history with our fans all around the world we would like to invite our community members to organise a release party. It is all up to the organising teams to make it just the way you like it. There could be presentations, workshops, maybe some translation marathons, a hacking contest, just some socialising fun with a drink or two. It can be short and sweet or a whole-day event. Do not be afraid to invite some local press to the event to get the word about KDE out there into the wide world. If you decide to throw a party, or know about one, do add it to the list of party locations.

As always, KDE will have a presence at next year's
FOSDEM in Belgium on 7-8 February 2008.
This is earlier in the month than usual. We are looking for people to give talks in the KDE or cross-desktop devroom. FOSDEM is the European meeting of free software developers, with over 4000
visitors, 200 lectures and lots of stalls to visit over a 2 day period. You
can come and listen to a plethora of interesting talks about anything related
to free software, and meet the people behind the nicknames.

On Saturday 29th of November 2008 LinuxDay was held for the 10th time already in Dornbirn, Austria. Organised by the LUG Vorarlberg in cooperation with HTL Dornbirn, the well-received event is a platform for open source projects to answer questions and show off their latest and greatest versions to a broad public, but also for the students at the HTL Dornbirn to show what they achieved and created by using software libre. KDE was there to show off KDE 4.

At the start of the month the organisation committee for Camp KDE asked for talk proposals for our conference in the Caribbean. We have reviewed the excellent submissions and come to an agreement on selected presentations. Read on for the talks.

Again it is that time of the year the Spain KDE community gathers in the Akademy-es event.
This year the event will be held in A Coruña from 21st to 23rd of November. The talks cover quite a wide range of topics, going from Python KDE development to translation workshops without forgetting more general talks about upcoming KDE 4.2 and KOffice 2.

If you are interested in coming, do not forget to register before 17th of November or we cannot guarantee you will get the nice T-shirt!

We would like to thank the University of A Coruña for the hosting, GPUL for co-organizing and Oficina de Software Libre de la Universidad de Coruña, Mancomun, Igalia, Qt Software and eyeOs for sponsoring.