The Australian Linux/Open Source Magazine, linmagau.org, has an
interview with

When LWN editor Jonathan Corbet was forced to search for an alternative for his beloved "ical" calendar application he examined Evolution, KOrganizer, plan, gDeskCal and GNOME-PIM and found a clear winner: KOrganizer 3.2. He loves it as the only competitive replacement for ical and praises the top-quality job of its developers to create a highly configurable calendar manager with a minimum of unneeded baggage.

Rinse de Vries, the coordinator of
the dutch KDE translation group, reported about a
new translation effort they started. Inspired by
the project KDE op Platt
they revitalised the idea of translating KDE to Frisian. Frisian
is the second official language spoken in The Netherlands by almost 350.000 people

LinuxPlanet's Kurt Wall reviews the KDE 3.2 series. Before he was concerned that KDE's size and complexity would result in a desktop that was virtually unusable but is pleased and surprised to find that KDE 3.2 is significantly faster, easier to use, more consistently implemented, and easier on the eyes than any previous version and calls it a terrific product which shows that Linux is increasingly competitive on the desktop.

CeBIT, the world largest computer trade show, is taking place in
Hannover from 18 to 24 March.
The KDE Project will be present and showcasing the latest developments of the innovative
KDE 3.2 desktop. The KDE Team can be found in the booth of Linup Front,
come around and visit the developers, translators and representatives who are there.

This week we stay in the USA and travel to the west coast,
to Hillsboro, Oregon, hometown of Eric Laffoon. We all know Eric Laffoon as the Quanta+ Team Leader.
In this interview we get to see a glimpse of the more private site of Eric. He's a multitasker, gets excited by catnip, describes himself as a 'wild and crazy guy', is best known for his good cigars and still looks good in spandex ;-)

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest:
A new Kiosk configuration front-end.
amaroK now supports NMM architecture.
Kate adds an autobookmark editor.
KGeography, a geography teaching tool is in kdenonbeta.

Right on the heels of the KDE 3.2.1 release, Savanna is back with an article about her latest upgrade to the KDE 3.2 desktop. After being on 3.2 beta for several months, she wasn't expecting too much of this upgrade.

KDE 3.2 - A Quick Review

by Savanna

The KDE project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.1, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.2.1 ships with lot of bug fixes since KDE 3.2 and is available in 49 languages (now including Bengali, Icelandic, Japanese, Lithuanian, Low Saxon, Latin Serbian and Tajik).

Recently TechDigest.org put their creative thinking into the interview format by asking people to submit questions which could be part of an interview. The results take the Quanta/kdewebdev project leader from childhood tech memories to what's new in Quanta and points between. If you're curious about Quanta, where it's going or what's on Eric's mind this is a good read.