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Camp KDE Saturday Talks
Friday, 23 January 2009
The program for the first two days at the Camp KDE meeting in Jamaica provided the attendants with a series of talks. In time, these will be available in video from but for now we have these short summaries of the talks. Read on for details.
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Camp KDE Takes off in Jamaica
Monday, 19 January 2009
In a warm Jamaica around thirty KDE developers have gathered for the first Camp KDE. The following article is an impression of the first days of this event, a short summary of what is going on here. Read on for the full report!
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KOffice Sprint 2008 Starting
Sunday, 9 November 2008
Some 20 KOffice developers have gathered at the KDAB offices to discuss and prepare the upcoming release of KOffice 2.0. Read on to learn about what the meeting is for and what is on the agenda to be sorted before the big release.
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Akademy 2008 was Amazing
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
It has been a couple of weeks since Akademy 2008 finished. KDE's contributors are now back home, more enthusiastic than ever about our future. If you missed the talks videos are now online. This article covers what happened during the week and outlines some of the results. Read on for more.
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Interview: JOLIE and Service-Oriented Computing Explained
Sunday, 7 September 2008
Akademy Redux: Release Team Members Propose New Development Process
Thursday, 28 August 2008
At Akademy 2008, KDE Release Team members Sebastian Kügler and Dirk Müller discussed the future of KDE's development process. Describing the challenges KDE faces and proposing some solutions, they spawned a lot of discussion. Read on for a summary of what has been said and done around this topic at Akademy.
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Integration at Akademy
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
An important topic at Akademy 2008 is modularisation and integration. It has been the main topic of one talk, but you will find it comes up in many others. It is clearly on the minds of many developers here. Read on for more of what is discussed here.
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Nokia Give Out N810s to KDE Hackers at Akademy
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
During the Emsys-sponsored Mobile and Embedded day at Akademy 2008, Nokia distributed 100 N810 internet tablets to KDE developers, and gave around 50 more for the project to distribute to worthy sub-projects. Read on for more.
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Akademy 2008 - Day 1
Sunday, 10 August 2008
Akademy 2008, the annual KDE desktop summit, officially kicked off on Saturday, 9th August in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium, with a schedule packed full of talks, discussions, and development. Read on for the highlights of the first day of the conference.
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Interview: MarkMail Indexes KDE Mailinglist Archives
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Several weeks ago MarkMail, a project sponsored and run by Mark Logic, started indexing the KDE mailinglist archives. After about a week of hard work, the KDE archives are now directly searchable from MarkMail. Besides interesting analytics, this brings some powerful search capabilities to the table. Read on for a short interview with Jason Hunter who was responsible for engineering on the project.
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The Second Day of the KDE 4.0 Release Event
Sunday, 20 January 2008
The second day of the KDE 4.0 Release Event in Mountain View, California, was a very busy day. Reporters and users joined the hackers, peeking over their shoulders, asking questions and generally trying to figure us out. Talks were given - most notably the keynote by Aaron Seigo, but also covering KOffice, the KDE-Edu project, and multimedia. Read on for more details.
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The First Day of the KDE 4.0 Release Event
Friday, 18 January 2008
The first day of the KDE 4.0 Release Event in Mountain View, California, got off to a great start on Thursday, with attendees fuelled by a hearty breakfast provided by Google. Then, the "un-conference" was ready to get underway, and within minutes the first topics were added to the whiteboards. Meanwhile, the room filled with people from across North America and worldwide, all with an interest in KDE. Read on for more details.
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KDE 4.0 Beta 4 and Development Platform RC Released
Wednesday, 31 October 2007
The KDE Community is happy to release the
fourth Beta for KDE 4.0. This Beta aimed at further polishing of
the KDE codebase and we would love to start receiving feedback from
testers. At the same time, a Release Candidate for the KDE 4.0 Development Platform is released. This Development Platform contains the bits and pieces needed to run and build applications using KDE 4 technology. The purpose of this Development Platform is to make it easier for third parties to port their applications to KDE 4, without having to wait until the full desktop is polished enough for the final 4.0 release.
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Tagua Releases its First Alpha
Sunday, 9 September 2007
Tagua, a generic boardgame for KDE, is approaching version 1.0, and the developers decided it's time to get the word out on this exceptionally cool application by releasing a first Alpha. Read on for more!
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KDE 4.0 Beta 2 Released, Codename "Cartoffel"
Thursday, 6 September 2007
The KDE Community proudly presents the second Beta release for KDE
4.0. This release marks the beginning of the feature freeze and the stabilization of the current
codebase. Simultaneously the KOffice developers have announced
their third Alpha
release, marking significant improvements in this innovative office suite. Both KDE and KOffice have benefited from the Google Summer of Code, as most resulting code has now been merged. Read on for more details.
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aKademy 2007: Summer of Code
Saturday, 7 July 2007
On Tuesday, the Summer of Code BoF was held at aKademy 2007. I conducted an interview with Emanuele Tamponi about the session and his first experiences of aKademy. Please read on for the article.
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aKademy 2007: Tuesday Hack-a-thon
Saturday, 7 July 2007
aKademy 2007 is continuing. Tuesday featured the Education Day and many smaller BoF sessions. In the meantime, hackers worked around-the-clock on various projects, both in the 'quiet' area and in the discussion area. Read on for the aKademy 2007 Tuesday Hack-a-thon report.
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aKademy 2007: KDE e.V. Meeting
Friday, 6 July 2007
aKademy 2007 goes on. Monday was filled mostly with the KDE e.V. meeting, and finished with a social event at the city chambers. Read on for the aKademy 2007 e.V. meeting report.
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aKademy 2007: The Second Day
Thursday, 5 July 2007
aKademy 2007 continues! Sunday, the second day of the conference, brought more talks covering a wide diversity of topics. Read on for the Sunday aKademy 2007 Report.
Sunday was very busy and interesting, and we regret that we were not able to attend and cover all talks. Yet, we reported some of the most interesting. Luckily, you will be able to find sheets and videos of the talks on the aKademy 2007 website.
Lubos Lunak about Compositing in KWin
Lubos starts by explaining that his talk will comprise two parts: first he will cover the 'boring' part, then continue talking about the 'other' part. Starting with the boring stuff, he explains how compositing works and what it is useful for.
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Thursday, 5 July 2007
At the second day of aKademy 2007, the contributors conference closed with the aKademy Awards Ceremony. Two of last years winners, Boudewijn Rempt and Laurent Montel awarded no less than four awards to Sebastian Trueg, Mathias Kretz, Danny Allen and Kenny Duffus. Read on for more details.
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KOffice ODF Sprint Kickoff
Sunday, 13 May 2007
The day before the real start of the KOffice meeting in Berlin, most developers had already arrived. After checking in and having dinner, they started hacking away at the KDAB office. Read on to learn about how this went and the plans the developers have for KOffice 2 and the coming weekend!
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KDE Storms First Day of FOSDEM 2007
Sunday, 25 February 2007
The first day of the annual Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting in Brussels was very busy for the KDE team: attending talks by other talented hackers, hosting KDE related talks in the developer room, representing KDE at the booth, mingling with other hackers, bug hunting and work on new features. KDE had a strong presence this year, at least twice as many KDE people attended including a very strong showing from the Amarok developers. Speakers in the KDE developer room included Jos van den Oever, Stephan Laurient, Flavio and Sander Koning.
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KDE at FOSDEM 2006
Monday, 27 February 2006
Last weekend, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting took place in Brussels. KDE was present there with a lot of developers, a devroom and several interesting talks. Among the speakers were Jonathan Riddell from the Kubuntu Distribution, Sebastian Kügler from the KDE's Marketing Working Group, Bart Coppens from the Krita development team and Raphael Langerhorst & Sander Koning from the KOffice teams.
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