Ateam 

It might be late but that is because April's application of the month covers one of the finest additions to KDE 3.4: KPDF. The application overview takes us through the powerful features in KPDF: thumbnails, contents, scrolling, zooming and searching. We also have an interview with one of the creators of KPDF, Albert Astals Cid. He tells us how KPDF got started, about Free Software use in Spain and where we should visit on our way to Málaga. Enjoy App of the Month in Dutch, English, French or German. Read More

A group of KDE contributors converged on Berlin, Germany for five days at the end of March to collaborate on a variety of KDE related projects. The scope was broad and included artwork, human interface guidelines, Tenor (a contextual linkage engine), alternatives to traditional file managers and groupware applications. Graciously sponsored by Novell with additional support from basysKom, credativ and Relevantive, this group of individuals came from as far away as Canada and from as near by as 15 minutes across town. Read More

This month in our series "Application of the Month" we show you the alternative FTP client, KBear. As usual we have an interview with the author and a description of this powerful but easy to use program. Enjoy Application of the Month in Dutch, English, French, and German! Read More

This month we present the fabulous Akregator in our series "Application of the Month". As usual we have an interview with the author and a description of this nifty application which allows you to browse through thousands of internet feeds without the hassle of using a web browser. If you want to help us creating this monthly series or you want to translate it to your own language please join the mailing list. Enjoy App of the Month in Dutch, English, French, and German! Read More

A new issue of the series "Application of the Month" has been released. It covers an application from the KDE PIM suite called KPilot. Besides the application review we interviewed its current maintainer Adriaan de Groot. KPilot is a replacement for the Palm Desktop software from Palm Inc, which makes your Palm/Palm Pilot/Visor handheld capable of exchanging information with your KDE powered computer. If you want to help us creating this monthly series or you want to translate it to your own language please contact us. Enjoy App of the Month in Dutch, English and German. Read More

A new issue of the series "Application of the Month" has been released. It covers an application from the KDE Edutainment Project called Kig together with a (bit outdated) interview with its maintainer Dominique Devriese. Kig is an interactive program which you can use to study geometric figures and their relationships. If you want to help us creating this monthly series or you want to translate it to your own language please contact us. Enjoy App of the Month in Dutch, English and German. Read More

During the KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy" the 'Unix Accessibility Forum' took place which gave possibility for handicapped persons to come in touch with Unix. We talked with Lars Stetten, a partially sighted computer science student from Giessen. Read More

Hewlett-Packard made quite a splash when they announced that they are offering Linux on the nx5000, one of the latest HP laptop models. HP also sponsored aKademy, the KDE Community World Summit as a Platinum sponsor. This included a loan of 24 laptops for usage in the tutorial rooms as well as a special deal for KDE contributors to buy the nx5000 model at a reduced price. The aKademy press team arranged a meeting with Thomas Schneller, Manager Software R&D and asked him about this venture from HP. Read More

During the KDE Contributor and Developer Conference at aKademy one of the speakers Avi Alkalay talked about his project Linux Registry. We met him afterwards and asked him several questions about this project. Read More

At aKademy a talk about Kalyxo was given by Kévin Ottens and Peter Rockai. Curious what this effort is all about we got in touch with the Kévin and Peter and they explained it all. Read More

We have a winner! Our recent competition turned out to be more than possible for Waldo Bastian, who picked up his prize this morning from Phil Rodrigues. Based upon his recent tutorial and presentation, the entry covers KDE's KIOSK framework and administration tools, and will add an entirely new section on introducing administration to the User Guide. Read More

Continuing our series of interviews for aKademy, we caught up with Eirik Chambe-Eng, President and Co-Founder of Trolltech, to pick his brain about Qt and Trolltech. Eirik apologized for "getting carried away" with our questions, describing himself as "passionate about these issues". So read on and enjoy... Read More

As UserConf has kicked off today at aKademy we had the privilege to sit down with Will Stephenson, a prominent hacker who works on the KDE instant messenger Kopete. We talked about Kopete, its current status and future plans for Kopete and Will had some very good news for us... Read More

If you are attending the UserConf over the coming weekend, then make sure you drop by the doKumentary room during your visit. Thorarinn Einarsson (Thor), a student of Documentary Studies at Duke University, is making a documentary about the KDE project. He is filming at aKademy, and is keen to hear from users and contributors. Read More

Attention aKademy participants! The mission, if you choose to accept it, is to update at least a single unwritten entry in the new KDE User Guide. You can see the current content here. The best submission received by Saturday 12 noon will win a book from the great collection of O'Reilly books (including a signed Samba book, C++ Pocket References, and the entire Linux Webserver CD Bookshelf and much more to choose from). Read on for full details. Read More

It seems that other news web sites are picking up on the news of the KDE Desktop event in Ludwigsburg. ZDNet is running an article about the new desktop search engine KDE hackers are working on here at aKademy. Aaron Seigo, prominent KDE hacker and usability expert, answered some questions during a telephone interview and gave the outside world some insight of what is happening here at aKademy. You can also find a transcript of the talk by Juk hacker Scott Wheeler on search and meta data ideas for KDE 4 here. Read More

On Sunday and Monday the first Unix Accessibility Forum took place at aKademy and was said by participants to be extremely successful. The most notable thing was that amongst all participants there was a good spirit of cooperation and consensus that standards for assistive technologies would ensure success in the accessibility of graphical user interfaces like KDE. Read More

The KDE Project is proud to announce an exclusive preview of the book 'Practical Qt' written by Jesper K. Pedersen and Matthias Kalle Dalheimer at the KDE World Summit - aKademy. Read More

The Conference of KDE Developers and Contributors finished a few days ago, and we are now happy to announce a collection of reports, videos, slides and notes from presentations, as well as plenty of photo galleries from those attending the KDE World Summit - aKademy. There are full reports on day one (Saturday) and day two (Sunday) on Newsforge. You can also find transcripts and slides from many of the talks on the schedule (thanks go to Jonathan Riddell for the transcripts). The video stream archives can be found here, courtesy of Fluendo. Attendees have also started to add their photo albums to this wiki page. Those attending aKademy are invited to add notes to this wiki page, their photos to the other wiki page, and speakers are asked to send their slides to the press team with the word "press" in the subject of your email. Also a lot of developers seem to blog about aKademy as well. Read More

To celebrate the start of the CodeMarathon event at the KDE World Summit 2004, the KDE Project and Knoppix proudly announce Knoppix 3.6, dubbed 'aKademy Edition'. Last-minute bugs were fixed, and the finished version demonstrated exclusively in an aKademy tutorial on Knoppix, indicative of the strong relationship between the Knoppix and KDE developer and user communities. Read More

The aKademy Team is excited to announce a set of live audio and video streams covering the KDE Community World Summit 2004, code-named "aKademy", taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany from August 21st to 29th. Those who cannot attend in person can now watch or listen to what is going on over the Internet, thanks to Fluendo, a GStreamer-based streaming media company. Read on for full details. Read More

For the third interview in our series previewing aKademy we approached Waldo Bastian, whose most recent major project has been the Kiosk framework. Tom Chance and Fabrice Mous talked to him about Kiosk, the new Kiosk Admin Tool, Linux on the corporate desktop and what we can expect from his talk at aKademy. Don't miss the previous interviews with Matthias Ettrich and Nils Magnus. Read More

Continuing the series of articles previewing KDE's World Summit, aKademy (running from August 21st to 29th), Tom Chance interviewed Matthias Ettrich, the founder of the KDE project, the creator of the LyX document-processor, and an employee of Trolltech. At aKademy he will be talking about how to design intelligent, Qt-style APIs. I asked him for his thoughts about the status of the KDE project, its achievements, and what he is looking forward to in aKademy. You can read the previous interview with Nils Magnus of LinuxTag here. Read More

As part of a series of articles previewing KDE's World Summit, aKademy (running from August 21st to 29th), Michael Renner and Tom Chance interviewed Nils Magnus of LinuxTag about security on the desktop. He is due to deliver a tutorial on security on the KDE desktop with Kester Habermann, one of 15 that run in parallel with the coding marathon. Read on for their thoughts on Linux and Windows security, software patents and more. Read More

The aKademy Team is proud to announce the schedules for the KDE Community World Summit 2004, code-named "aKademy", taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany from August 21st to 29th. Featuring speakers from IBM, Novell, SUSE, Conectiva, Trolltech, HP and many community hackers and activists, it promises to be a highlight of the Free Software calendar. Boasting an extensive program of talks, demos, tutorials, workshops, presentations, and joint coding activities, as well as plenty of opportunities to discuss such significant issues as usability and the future of Qt4/KDE4, you really can't afford to miss it. Whether you're a first-time user or a guru developer, register now to avoid disappointment. You can read the full announcement here, and find out more at the aKademy web site. Read More

While we were enjoying a short leave of absence we finished a new version of the "Application of the Month" series. Through the collaboration of the German and Dutch KDE teams we are now able to offer you an interview with Florian Simnacher, author of Konserve, a cool backup application for the KDE desktop. Enjoy Application of the Month in the languages German, Dutch and English. Read More

Again this month we offer you a new version of the "Application of the Month" series as the Dutch team is trying to get in sync with the German team. This issue covers an interview of Koos Vriezen, author of KMPlayer, a multimedia player for the KDE Desktop. Enjoy Application of the Month in the languages German, Dutch and English. Read More

The KDE Project is proud to announce its plans for the "KDE Community World Summit 2004", code-named "aKademy". The first edition of this new international event will be held in Ludwigsburg, Germany, near Stuttgart. Taking place from August 21st to 29th 2004, the Summit will include an exciting program of talks, presentations, tutorials and joint development, bug-fixing, design and polishing work on the leading Linux and Unix desktop environment. Read More