In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• In Calligra: Kexi's welcome status bar fetches GUI updates from the server if available; WPS file support; updates and fixes in the text undo/redo framework
• Improved synchronization view in Lokalize
• Improvements in C++ and C++11 in KDevelop
• More configurable tab and window title in Konsole

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Addition of a video wall script in KDE-Workspace
• Support of third party window switchers by a KCM service that finds all available window switcher layouts
• Work on extended quick search to include fulltext results from Nepomuk in KDE-PIM
• Improved Nepomuk feeder throttling
• Improvements in Kexi Feedback Agent

In the middle of cold January, the team behind DigiKam met in Genoa, the sunny old port city in northern Italy. DigiKam is the award-winning KDE photo management application. Participants started gathering in the evening on Thursday 12 January, getting together over dinner to form new friendships and to find out how people's lives were going. The next day, real work started.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Important improvements in simon. The first working speech recognition implementation based on stock Julius (continuous speech recognition system) Text To Speech (TTS) to RSS and email
• Konsole gains a Clone Tab action, DBus objects for each Konsole window
• Work on annotation view in Kst: items can now move with data

The 10^th KDE PIM Meeting in Osnabrück finished on 12 February. Starting with pizza Friday afternoon running until Sunday around 17:00, the meeting attracted more than 20 hackers working on the various parts of KDE PIM. There was talk, code, beer, a group picture and even an anti-ACTA demonstration. Read on for a report on the meeting.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Partial port of kdelibs to Qt5
• RSS feed handling in Plasma
• Fix drag and drop issues with non-local URLs
• KStars FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) improved to work well in Ekos

Thinking of starting a free and open source project? Looking for inspiration on an existing project? Lydia Pintscher has pulled together useful wisdom from free and open community leaders in a new book—Open Advice.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Marble gains support for bicycle and pedestrian routing, and a data model to manage offline routing and offline search data
• Development of Ekos begins: a new tool for KStars to utilize INDI-based (Instrument-Neutral-Distributed-Interface) devices in astrophotography

During a recent 5 day sprint, four KDE contributors planned and produced a handbook for beginning KDE developers. We had assistance from several generous organizations, worked hard, and learned a lot.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

• Work on lambda expressions and handling of the override token in c++11, C# import, new features in list generator for Python in KDevelop
• Solid APIs are now used for DPMS (VESA Display Power Management Signaling) service jobs in kde-workspace