Paul Brown 

Calling All Artists! - The Plasma 6 Wallpaper Contest

Monday, 14 August 2023
Wallpaper Contest announcement poster

Plasma 6 release day is getting closer... and we still have no wallpaper to use! But we're going to change that with your help and this contest! We are calling on all artists to submit their original wallpaper designs and compete for the chance to win a brand-new laptop (see below). The contest will be open for three months, starting now!

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MBition Becomes KDE's Newest Patron

Monday, 7 August 2023
MBition's logo overlaid over a futuristic looking car dashboard

MBition becomes a KDE patron and supports the work of the KDE community with its generous sponsorship.

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Akademy 2023 - How it Happened

Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Audience member asks a question at Akademy 2023

Akademy is KDE's annual event where the community comes together in one place to meet in person, share ideas and hack on common projects.

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Celebrating 25 years of The KDE Free Qt Foundation

Wednesday, 21 June 2023

On the 22nd of June 1998, the KDE Free Qt Foundation was founded and has accompanied Qt on its amazing journey to become the success story that it is today.

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Season of KDE 2023: Conclusion

Thursday, 4 May 2023

By Johnny Jazeix and Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss

For this year's edition of Season of KDE, 8 participants successfully completed their projects. Several of the projects push forward the work to achieve KDE's three goals, namely:

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g10 Code Becomes a KDE Patron

Tuesday, 25 April 2023
GNUPG.com logo.

g10 Code GmbH joins the ranks of KDE patrons! g10 Code provides custom development, enhancements, and audits of cryptographic software -- in particular for the popular GnuPG encryption and digital signature tools.

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Kubuntu Focus Becomes KDE Patron

Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Kubuntu Focus logo on a white background.

Kubuntu Focus is now generously supporting KDE as its newest patron!

Kubuntu Focus offers the best out-of-the-box experience for professional Linux users. All Kubuntu Focus systems come with the beautiful and intuitive Plasma desktop from KDE on top of industry-standard Ubuntu LTS. The hardware is designed to save time and hassle, thanks to its device optimizations, curated apps, Focus Tools, system-specific HOWTOs, and excellent Linux support.

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Akademy 2022 - The Weekend of KDE Talks, Panels and Presentations

Sunday, 16 October 2022

From the notes by Aniqa Khokhar, Jonathan Esk-Riddell, and Paul Brown

Akademy 2022 was held in Barcelona from the 1st to the 7th of October. As usual, the weekend of Saturday 1st of October and Sunday 2nd of October was dedicated to talks, panels and presentations. Community members and guests laid out for attendees what had been going on within KDE's projects (and adjacent projects), the state of the art, and where things were headed.

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The Kdenlive Fundraiser is Live

Tuesday, 20 September 2022

Today we break ground. Today we launch the first of what will be many fundraisers for specific projects. Our goal is to get funds directly into the hands of the people who make the software.

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New KDE Slimbook 4 Now Available

Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Spanish manufacturer (and KDE patron) Slimbook has just released their new KDE-themed Slimbook ultrabook.

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Season of KDE Kicks Off

Wednesday, 26 January 2022

By Johnny Jazeix

Season of KDE, the program that helps people start contributing to KDE easily, kicks off with nine fascinating projects:

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Linux App Summit 2022 will be held in Italy

Thursday, 20 January 2022

The Linux App Summit (LAS) of 2022 will be held in Rovereto, a picturesque city at the foot of the Italian Alps.

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2021 KDE Eco Sprint

Friday, 24 December 2021

By Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss

On 11 December 2021, KDE Eco held the first of many planned Sprints. The Sprint was originally intended to be an in-person event to set up a community measurement lab, but Corona had other ideas. Nevertheless, the community deployed its usual resourcefulness, and we met online instead.

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GCompris Releases Version 2.0

Friday, 17 December 2021
Tux, Konqi and friends bring you new fun GCompris activities these holidays.

GCompris 2.0 improves classic favorites loved by children of all ages, and adds even more activities for more fun and learning.

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TUXEDO Computers Becomes the Newest KDE Patron

Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Herbert Feiler, CEO TUXEDO Computers.

TUXEDO Computers, a company known for selling Linux-powered computers and notebooks, now joins us as a KDE Patron!

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Announcing the Winner of the Plasma 25th Anniversary Edition Wallpaper Contest

Wednesday, 1 September 2021

We are happy to announce the winner of the Plasma 25th Anniversary Edition Wallpaper Contest!

Thanks to all those who submitted their artwork. The variety and quality of the submissions in this edition was simply astounding. As always, there were multiple great options and it was very hard to choose. It was a very close call! But at the end, we have a winner: Patak by Aron!

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Akademy 2021 - Talks and Videos

Saturday, 24 July 2021

All Akademy 2021 videos are ready for you to enjoy. Check out the previous summaries of talks on the dot for ideas on what to watch:

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Akademy 2021 - Day 8

Saturday, 26 June 2021
Akademy 2021 Group Photo.

After 4 days + 1 morning of BoFs, hacking sessions and meetings, talks at Akademy resumed in room 1 on Friday at 17:00 UTC. Kevin Ottens and Christelle Zouein from enioka Haute Couture kicked things off with the talk Community's Adventures in Analyticsland - Or the State of the Community Through New Analytics. Christelle and Kevin showed us the data analysis tools they have been working on to study information collected from KDE's development repositories and the surprising facts and trends they discovered.

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Akademy 2021 - Day 3

Monday, 21 June 2021
The day started at 8:00 UTC sharp with four very interesting lightning talks. Kai Uwe Broulik talked about how to become productive using Plasma at home. He pointed out tips and tricks that allow you to avoid interruptions and improve your time working from your couch. Read More

Akademy 2021 - Day 2

Sunday, 20 June 2021
Goals Champions Panel

First thing in the morning, Aleix Pol, president of KDE, introduced the event at and explained how Akademy 2021 was still "special" because we could still not meet in person.

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Season of KDE 2021 is coming

Sunday, 13 December 2020
Since 2013, the KDE Student Programs has been running Season of KDE. Season of KDE is a program similar to, but not quite the same as, Google Summer of Code. It offers an opportunity for everyone (not just students) to participate in both coding and non-coding projects that benefit the KDE ecosystem. In the past few years, SoK participants have not only created new application features, but have also developed the KDE Continuous Integration System, statistical reports for developers, a web framework, ported KDE applications, created documentation, and contributed to KDE with lots and lots of other tasks. Read More

Educational Software GCompris is 20 Years Old Today

Thursday, 19 November 2020
GCompris is a popular collection of educational and fun activities for children from 2 to 10 years old. GCompris has become popular with teachers, parents, and, most importantly, kids from around the world and offers an ever-growing list of activities -- more than 150 at the last count. These activities have been translated to over 20 languages and cover a wide range of topics, from basic numeracy and literacy, to history, art, geography and technology. Read More

Akademy 2020 Day 7 - The Last Day

Saturday, 12 September 2020
It was a fine day in Onlineland and Akademy attendees were in a festive mood, not least because they were ready to celebrate the successful migration of KDE to GitLab. Although a titanic effort, the move is already paying off, as GitLab offers an easier and more flexible platform for developers and users to get their work done and shared. Read More

Akademy 2020 Day 3 - Conference

Monday, 7 September 2020
Day 2 of the conference stretch of Akademy (day 3 of the overall event) kicked off with a heavy-duty programming courtesy of Ivan Čukić who talked about C++17 and 20 Goodies. Most KDE applications are developed using C++ so Ivan covered the new features that C++17 and 20 bring and how they could be combined with each other. Read More

Akademy 2020 Day 2 - Conference

Sunday, 6 September 2020

Written by Blumen Herzenschein, David C. and Paul Brown

The first day of Akademy talks were varied and interesting, covering a wide range of topics, from managing project goals and technical advances in Qt and KDE technologies, to Open Source in dentistry and Linux in automobiles.

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Akademy 2020 Day 1 - Training Sessions

Friday, 4 September 2020

Akademy kicked off today with training sessions on several KDE-related topics.

In the morning, Nuno Pinheiro from KDAB conducted a class on UI/UX Design in QML for Desktop. This online workshop contained practical exercises on dos, don'ts, and integration; and tips on outside of the box UI design. The session started out with attendees relaying to Nuno the projects they were working on and how they hoped the lesson would help them.

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Gina Häußge and OctoPrint

Saturday, 15 August 2020
Gina Häußge and printer.

Gina Häußge's biggest claim to fame may be OctoPrint, the most popular software for managing 3D printers from small, single board computers -- like the Raspberry Pi, Odroid, etc..

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KDE's 20.08 Apps Updates

Thursday, 13 August 2020

The updates to KDE apps released today are many, contain a wide array of changes, and cover an impressive number of applications.

Dolphin, KDE's file explorer, for example, adds previews for more types of files and improvements to the way long names are summarized, allowing you to better see what each file is or does. Dolphin also improves the way you can reach files and directories on remote machines, making working from home a much smoother experience. It also remembers the location you were viewing the last time you closed it, making it easier to pick up from where you left off.

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Linux App Summit Goes Online in November

Wednesday, 5 August 2020
LAS Banner

Once again, KDE and GNOME are teaming up to bring you THE conference for people interested in establishing Linux as a great end-user platform. At the Linux App Summit we work on making app creation for users easy and worthwhile.

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KDE Slimbook: Plasma, KDE Apps and the Power of the AMD Ryzen CPU

Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Banner

Today Slimbook and KDE launch the new KDE Slimbook.

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Plasma 5.19 - Sleek and Polished

Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Plasma 5.19

Plasma 5.19 is out! If we gave alliterative names to Plasma releases, this one could be "Polished Plasma". The effort developers have put into squashing bugs and removing annoying papercuts has been immense.

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Plasma on TV: Presenting Plasma Bigscreen

Thursday, 26 March 2020

Plasma Bigscreen main menu.


Plasma Bigscreen is KDE's user interface for big TV screens.

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Gpg4KDE & GPG4win Approved for Transmission & Processing of National Classified Information

Tuesday, 18 February 2020


Something that may have slipped you by: Back in November, the German Federal Office for Information Security approved Gpg4KDE and Gpg4win for the transmission and processing of national classified information.

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Plasma 5.18 is out: easier system settings, interactive notifications, emojis, wallpapers and more

Tuesday, 11 February 2020


A brand new version of the Plasma desktop is now available.

In Plasma 5.18 you will find neat new features that make notifications clearer, settings more streamlined and the overall look more attractive. Plasma 5.18 is easier and more fun to use, while at the same time allowing you to be more productive when it is time to work.

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KDE Receives Generous Donation from the Handshake Foundation

Tuesday, 21 January 2020


We are excited to announce that KDE e.V. has received a donation of 880,000 HNS coins (roughly 79,000 euros) from the Handshake Foundation.

This is the not the first time Handshake has made a substantial donation to the KDE Community. Back in 2018 Handshake donated approximately USD 300,000 to KDE which was used to finance projects and fund activities.

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So you want to make a KDE video...

Saturday, 18 January 2020


KDE is running a competition in search of the next great promotional video for KDE's Plasma desktop and KDE's applications.

The prizes are two fantastic TUXEDO computers, one per category, which will undoubtedly boost your film rendering capacity. There are also 12 goodie packages for runner-ups, and who doesn't need more Linux shirts, caps and stickers?

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Plasma: A Safe Haven for Windows 7 Refugees

Wednesday, 8 January 2020

A fully functional Plasma desktop with a Windows 7 theme.

Microsoft will stop providing updates for Windows 7 on January 14 2020.

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Apps Update for December

Thursday, 12 December 2019

Creating new applications is the easy part. Maintaining them, making them safer and faster and adding features that make them more useful to users is what marks the difference between one-shot wonders and solid tools you can trust and enjoy for years. That is why KDE developers are constantly renewing and updating their applications, making them more reliable, more useful, and in general, just better.

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Plasma 5.17 is out!

Tuesday, 15 October 2019

KDE launches the new version of its acclaimed desktop environment, Plasma 5.17.

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Meet KDE e.V.'s New Board

Friday, 27 September 2019
Akademy 2019 brought the KDE community some exciting news and major changes. The new community-wide goals have been announced, and KDE contributors presented new ideas and projects they are working on. Read More

KDE Decides the Three New Challenges: Wayland, Consistency, and Apps

Saturday, 7 September 2019

Lydia Pintscher, Eike Hein, Ivan Cukic and Neofytos Kolokotronis discuss the results of the past goals.

The KDE Community has spoken! On the first day of Akademy 2019, Lydia Pintscher, President of KDE e.V., announced the three new goals we will prioritize over the next 2 years.

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Lars Knoll, CTO at Qt and Keynote Speaker at Akademy 2019

Thursday, 29 August 2019

Lars Knoll at the Qt Company's headquarters.

Lars Knoll has been working on Qt for a long time. It is now 20 years since he joined Trolltech and even longer since he started developing crucial pieces of the KDE ecosystem. In that time, he went from theoretical physicist to software engineer to project leader, and survived the many roughs-and-tumbles Qt went through, including the event that nearly killed the project brought on by a certain company from Redmond.

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The Linux Application Summit is coming to Barcelona in November

Wednesday, 31 July 2019

The KDE and GNOME Communities are pleased to announce Linux App Summit 2019.

LAS 2019 will be held in Barcelona, Spain from November 12th to November 15th. Our Call for Participation opens on July 31st, and will run until August 18th.

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Akademy 2019: Talk Schedule is out!

Thursday, 11 July 2019
I'm going to Akademy 2019

The schedule for Akademy 2019 is out and it is full of interesting and intriguing talks, panels and keynotes.

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Plasma 5.16 by KDE is Now Available

Tuesday, 11 June 2019

Say hello to Plasma 5.16, a the newest iteration of KDE's desktop environment, chock-a-block with new features and improvements.

For starters, check out the new notification system! Not only can you mute notifications altogether with the Do Not Disturb mode, but the system also groups notifications by app. Like this, when you run through the history of past notifications, you can see all the messages from KDE Connect in one category, the download information in another, email alerts in a third, and so on.

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Bring the Linux App Summit 2019 home

Tuesday, 7 May 2019
Photo by Paul Brown, distributed under CC By SA license.

The GNOME and KDE communities are looking for locations for the Linux App Summit (LAS) 2019, an event that will be held sometime between September and December 2019.

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KDE Applications 19.04 Released

Thursday, 18 April 2019
openexpo

The first new applications bundle release of the year adds stability, coherence and new features that help users become more comfortable and more productive using KDE software.

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Visit our Booth at OpenExpo Europe

Saturday, 2 March 2019
OpenExpo 2018

On the 20th of June, KDE will be attending OpenExpo Europe 2019.

The event is held in Madrid, Spain, and the organisers have kindly given us a space on the exhibition floor. We will be showcasing the best of what KDE has to offer in the business world. This will include devices that will show off the versatility and potential of Plasma and Plasma Mobile on everything - from mobiles, embedded devices, SBCs and low-powered devices (like the Pinebook), to its capability for adapting to vehicle infotainment systems and high-end ultrabooks, like the KDE Slimbook.

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Google Summer of Code 2019

Wednesday, 27 February 2019
GSoC

The KDE Community is happy to announce that we have been selected to participate in Google Summer of Code. This will be our our 14th year of mentoring students.

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KDE is adding Matrix to its instant messaging infrastructure

Wednesday, 20 February 2019

KDE is adopting non-proprietary and decentralized instant messaging services and is now running its own community-managed instance of Matrix.

Matrix works fine on mobile as well.

KDE has been looking for a better way of chatting and live-sharing information for several years now. IRC has been a good solution for a long time, but our channels are currently on servers KDE cannot control. It also lacks features users have come to expect from more modern IM services. Other alternatives, such as Telegram, Slack and Discord, although feature-rich, are centralized and built around closed-source technologies and offer even less control than IRC. This flies in the face of KDE's principles that require we use and support technologies based on Free software.

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KDE releases a new version of the Plasma desktop environment

Tuesday, 12 February 2019

Say hello to Plasma 5.15, the newest version of KDE's acclaimed desktop environment.

This February release of KDE Plasma comes with a wide range of new features and improvements. The main focus of developers has been stamping out all minor problems and papercuts of the desktop, aiming to make Plasma smoother and easier to use.

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Come Home to KDE at FOSDEM 2019

Wednesday, 30 January 2019

Despite the rain and the cold, there is always a place that is warm and welcoming in Brussels in February - the KDE booth at FOSDEM 2019.

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Do your part! Squash bugs for Kdenlive!

Friday, 30 November 2018

On the 2nd of December, the Kdenlive team will be holding an open bug-squashing day in preparation for the major refactoring release due in April 2019. Everybody is invited!

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Necuno Mobile: An open phone with Plasma Mobile

Thursday, 29 November 2018

Necuno Solutions and KDE are collaborating to offer Plasma Mobile on the Necuno Mobile, a device Necuno describes as "a truly open source hardware platform".

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Akademy 2018 videos are now online

Friday, 7 September 2018
If you missed any of the talks, or couldn't make it to Vienna to attend this year's Akademy, now you can watch the recordings from the comfort of your home. You can find and download the videos from our repository, or browse and share them from the YouTube playlist we have set up especially for all Akademy 2018 videos. Read More

The State of Akademy Sponsorship

Tuesday, 7 August 2018

Photo by rawpixel. Licensed under CC0 license.

Akademy 2018 is less than a week away. Apart from meeting up again with friends and colleagues, the KDE community has another reason to be joyful: this year we have broken the record for the number of sponsors for the event. Although there have been many sponsors of Akademy over the years, never have there been so many at one time.

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The KDE e.V. Community Report for 2017 is now available

Thursday, 28 June 2018

KDE e.V. board at their autumn sprint.

If there is one document you want to read to discover what KDE has been up to and where we are right now, this is the one.

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Plasma 5.13, a new version of KDE's desktop environment, is here

Wednesday, 13 June 2018

Optimized and less resource-hungry, Plasma 5.13 can run smoothly on under-powered ARM laptops, high-end gaming PCs, and everything in between.

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Claudia Garad, Executive Director of Wikimedia Österreich: "We want to create a welcoming atmosphere for newcomers"

Tuesday, 29 May 2018

Claudia Garad, Executive Director of Wikimedia Österreich. Photo by Stepro.

Claudia Garad is the Executive Director of Wikimedia Österreich, Wikipedia's Austrian chapter. Claudia will deliver Akademy's second keynote on Sunday, 12th of August.

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Promo Sprint Report: What We Did and How You Can Help Us

Friday, 25 May 2018

February was a big month for the Promo team - we held a long-awaited sprint in Barcelona, Spain from the 16th to 18th. The aim of the sprint was to look at information we had collected over the prior years, interpret what it meant, and use it to discuss and plan for the future. The activities we came up with should help us accomplish our ultimate goal: increasing KDE's visibility and user base.

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EFAIL and KMail

Tuesday, 15 May 2018

On Monday, a security vulnerability in the OpenPGP and S/MIME email encryption standards and the email clients using those, called EFAIL was published.

What is this about and how is KMail affected? (Spoiler: KMail users are safe by default.)

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Kdenlive Sprint - The Movie

Saturday, 12 May 2018

Kdenlive is KDE's advanced video-editor. This April, members of the Kdenlive project met up for five days - from 25th to the 29th - for their spring sprint. The developers Jean-Baptiste Mardelle and Nicolas Carion, along with professional community videomakers Farid Abdelnour, Rémi Duquenne and Massimo Stella, got together at the Carrefour Numérique in Paris to push the project forward.

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The Akademy 2018 program is now available

Thursday, 3 May 2018

Akademy 2018 organisers have published the program for the conference part of the event. This year the event will be held in Vienna, and talks will take place on the 11th and 12th of August.

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5 Things to Look Forward to in Krita 4.0

Thursday, 22 March 2018

That Krita has become one of the most popular applications for painting among digital artists is an understatement. The great thing is that, with every new version, Krita just gets better and better. The latest release is a perfect example of that. Check out what you can look forward to in the new 4.0 version:

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Dan Bielefeld, Keynote Speaker Akademy 2018: Exposing Injustice Through the Use of Technology

Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Dan Bielefeld speaks at a Transitional Justice Working Group event.

Dan Bielefeld is an activist that works for a South Korean NGO. Dan worked in the Washington, D.C. area training young activists in the areas of politics and journalism before going into researching atrocities committed by the North Korean regime. He is currently the Technical Director of the Transitional Justice Working Group and helps pinpoint the locations of mass burial and execution sites using mapping technologies.

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Mycroft AI on Plasma

Friday, 23 February 2018

Did you know you can install an AI personal assistant on your Plasma desktop?

Mycroft is running through the last 24 hours of the crowdfunding campaign for its Mark II assistant. The machine looks awesome and offers similar functionality to other proprietary alternatives, but with none of the spying and leaking of personal data.

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KDE receives 200,000 USD-donation from the Pineapple Fund

Monday, 19 February 2018

KDE e.V. is announcing today it has received a donation of 200,000 USD from the Pineapple Fund.

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The New KDE Slimbook II: A sleek and powerful Plasma-based Ultrabook

Thursday, 8 February 2018
There is a new KDE Slimbook on sale as from today. The KDE Slimbook II is svelte and smart on the outside, but powerful and fast on the inside. Read More

Plasma 5.12 is out, and it is faster, stabler, and has more features than ever

Tuesday, 6 February 2018
Although performance and stability have been the prime goals for this version of Plasma, some of the new features include spring-loaded folder views, improved Wayland support, interactive notifications, and more. Read More

The KDE Community in 2017

Thursday, 28 December 2017

Remember to donate to our End of Year fundraiser and support our community and its work.

It's the time of year for recaps. We already talked about the advancements in KDE's software, and it makes sense we talk about that first. To many people and for many years, "KDE" was synonymous with a desktop environment and its applications. That is, KDE was its software.

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KDE's Goals for 2018 and Beyond

Thursday, 30 November 2017

The KDE community has spoken and it has chosen the proposals which will define the general direction of the KDE project over the next three or four years.

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KDE Powers up the Qt World Summit

Friday, 13 October 2017
The motto of our space at QtWS this year has been "Power up!". We put it into practice in more than one way and in the most literal of senses.
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Plasma Mobile and Purism's Librem 5 Free Smartphone

Thursday, 14 September 2017


Artist's impression of what Plasma Mobile
would look like on the Librem 5.

"This was the plan all along", said Todd Weaver during a conference call we held with him last week. He was referring to building a free, open, and privacy-respecting smartphone.

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Randa Roundup - Part I

Saturday, 2 September 2017


Kdenlive will be easier to use by the end of the sprint.

Our intrepid developers are getting ready to make their way to Randa, the location for KDE's autumn coding sprint, and we are gradually finding out what they will be doing up there in the Swiss mountains.

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Akademy 2017 in Retrospect

Sunday, 6 August 2017

The 2017 edition of Akademy was held in Almería, Spain. Starting officially on the 22nd of July and ending on the 27th, the weekend was dedicated to talks, as is customary. The rest of the following week, from Monday to Thursday, was dedicated to workshops and BoFsBirds of a Feather — sessions in which community members interested in the same things meet and work together.

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Akademy 2017 -- Day 2

Tuesday, 25 July 2017

Antonio Larrosa advocates building
intracommunity relationships.

Antonio Larrosa kicked off Sunday with his talk on The KDE Community and its Ecosystem. He expressed concern about what he perceived as an increase in the isolation of certain communities and laid out the advantages of working on intra-community relationships.

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Akademy 2017 -- Day 1

Sunday, 23 July 2017

During the first day at the Akademy, everything went according to plan and nearly everything was on time. Kudos to the organisers.

The weather was balmy at the beginning of the day and, although Aleix Pol said it was not hotter than a hot day in Barcelona, many of the Scandinavian and Scottish attendees were visibly wilting under the sun. Fortunately for them, the venue is equipped with air-conditioning.

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What to Expect from Akademy 2017 on Day 1

Tuesday, 18 July 2017
I'm going to Akademy

There's less than a week until the beginning of Akademy 2017 (if you still haven’t registered, do so now) and this is what you can expect from your first day at the event:

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Antonio Larrosa -- Dragons, Doom and Digital Music

Thursday, 6 July 2017

Antonio Larrosa, President of KDE España.

Antonio Larrosa is the current president of KDE España and he and I have been friends for quite some time now. It may seem logical, since we both live in Málaga, are passionate about Free Software in general, and KDE in particular. But in most other respects we are total opposites: Antonio is quiet, tactful, unassuming and precise. Enough said.

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Robert Kaye -- Music Buff, Entrepreneur, Akademy Keynote Speaker

Sunday, 18 June 2017

Robert Kaye, creator of MusicBrainz

Robert Kaye is definitely a brainz-over-brawn kinda guy. As the creator of MusicBrainz, ListenBrainz and AcousticBrainz, all created and maintained under the MetaBrainz Foundation, he has pushed Free Software music cataloguing-tagging-classifying to the point it has more or less obliterated all the proprietary options.

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Kirigami 2.1 is Out

Friday, 28 April 2017

Kirigami UI lets you easily design and create convergent apps that work on desktop and mobile environments. Platforms supported by Kirigami UI include Windows, Android, and Linux. Kirigami is especially indicated for KDE's Plasma Desktop and the upcoming Plasma Mobile platform, KDE's graphical environment for mobile devices. Apps developed with Kirigami will probably also work on MacOS X and iOS with minimal tweaking, although these platforms are not officially supported yet.

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User Question: With Some Free Software Phone Projects Ending, What Does Plasma Mobile's Future Look Like?

Friday, 28 April 2017

Q: With some free software phone projects ending, what does Plasma Mobile's future look like?

A: The future is rosy. While it is true that Plasma Mobile used to be built on the Ubuntu Phone codebase, that was superseded some time ago. The recent events at Ubuntu and other mobile communities have not modified the pace of the development (which is pretty fast) or the end goal, which is to build frameworks that will allow convergence for all kinds of front-ends and apps on all kinds of devices.

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