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The aKademy 2006 organisation team is please to announce that registration for this year's conference in Dublin, Ireland, has now opened. KDE welcomes registration from anybody interested in the future development of KDE, including developers, translators, other free software projects, representatives of the software industry and ISVs interested in using free desktops and the KDE application framework. Read More

KDE will be represented at the large US computer show COMDEX, in Las Vegas, from the 17th to 20th November, as a result of placing second in a poll run by O'Reilly Network. Developer George Staikos will be demonstrating the soon-to-be-released KDE 3.2, featuring a vast number of improvements in all areas, as well Kolab, the Free Software groupware solution. Thank you for voting for KDE and giving us this opportunity of introducing our desktop to a whole new audience. See you there! Read More

From the 24th to 28th of August 2002, members of KDE e.V. were invited to meet at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, Germany, to discuss various matters relating to KDE e.V. and KDE in general. A full report (with annotated group photo) from this meeting is now available on the KDE e.V. web site. Read More

Several recent unfortunate incidents, including a security breach, have meant that a number of KDE web sites such as printing.kde.org, edu.kde.org, enterprise.kde.org, and worldwide.kde.org, have been forced to move to a new host. Previously these were hosted by Bernhard "Bero" Rosenkraenzer on his server, with bandwidth provided by Red Hat Germany. We would like to express our gratitude to Bero for all the time and effort he put into administering the server to allow the hosting, and to Red Hat for for supplying the bandwidth. Read More

A rather unusual application of the 'Special Printer' feature in KDEPrint has been employed by KDE user Paul Evans for quite some time now. After being asked to write an article about his inventions, he did so, and now finally it has been published on printing.kde.org. Allow yourself to be amazed at the power and flexibility of KPrinter, minus any involvement of dead flattened trees spoiled by ink or black dust particles... Read More