In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• On startup, KPhotoAlbum can search for videos without thumbnails
• Dolphin allows remembering view properties for the search mode
• Screen edge bindings for scripts and scripted effects implemented in KDE Workspace
• New assert methods and Get Hot New Stuff support are available for KWin scripts

Are you attending Akademy 2012 in Tallinn? Are you interested in making the conference rock for attendees? Helping the Akademy Team organize everything? Do you want an exclusive free Akademy 2012 Team t-shirt?

This year we have Blue Systems as a Platinum sponsor of Akademy 2012 Tallinn. Recently, they made news by offering continous support for Jonathan Riddell, lead developer of Kubuntu, the KDE distribution that they would like to become one of the best on DistroWatch.

Akademy, the KDE community summit, is happening in just a few weeks, from the 30 of June to the 6 of July, in Tallinn, Estonia. The Akademy Organizing Team is pleased to welcome this year's Akademy sponsors whose support is critical to the success of the conference.

Platinum Sponsors

Akademy 2012 is generously supported by two Platinum sponsors, Blue Systems and Nokia.

In the wake of the announcement of the first ever KDE powered tablet, quite a few interesting things are happening in the background. One of them is the formation of a professional Partner Network for devices such as the Vivaldi tablet. Let's look at this Partner Network in more detail.

Claire Lotion

This week we heard about the death of KDE contributor Claire Lotion. People within the KDE Community were shocked and upset by this tragedy.

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.