As LinuxTag 2005 is over, many KDE contributors went home to implement ideas
that were discussed during the event. In case you got lost among all of the
announcements, here's an easy-to-click-through list of new features.
Before reading, you might want to have a look at the pictures, and there are
now more added daily to the community photo list.
After reviewing the list of submissions, Google has released this morning the final list of Summer of Code proposals they have accepted. Out of 8000+ entries, 410 were selected and KDE proponents were awarded 24 out of those which equals $120,000 of support for KDE technology.
KDE will be present at the Droit D'auteur et Vous event in Montréal (Québec) on July 3rd. The event is to promote Free Software and Richard Stallman will be giving a talk on copyright. There is an expo for LUGs and other organisations where KDE has booked a stall to show off the latest KDE & KOffice and to hand out limited edition Kubuntu CDs.
The annual KDE show at LinuxTag has begun already. With talks about KCall and 'KDE: 3, 2, 1!', users had a great chance to learn about existing and new features of KDE. The booth was crowded as always. We were visited by politicians, entrepreneurs interested in deploying the Kiosk framework on Internet terminals, and for tomorrow a guided tour for pupils is planned so they can learn about how to effectively use their new desktop in school - which is KDE.
This year I was invited to attend the 6th edition of the International Free Software Forum in
Today you will find 20 hackers on the lawn amongst the flowers and the peacocks, enjoying the Dutch sun. Annahoeve plays host to the fourth KDEPIM meeting which is situated in Achtmaal, Netherlands. You can read the press release below.
The wiki of QtForum.org has opened its doors again. After a long period of downtime because of spam, the QtForum.org team decided to switch to more robust wiki software. The result is that the wiki is now based on a modified version of Mediawiki.
The Dutch KDE team has released a fully Dutch localized live-CD assembled jointly with the Dutch Mandriva Club. The live-CD allows you to try out KDE without installing anything and loads in Dutch by default, making it useful to demo to all those parents and business people. The CD comes shipped with a full KDE 3.3.2 release plus it includes extra applications like KMplayer.
Free software developers in Turkey aim more success in the forthcoming months by enlarging its member base. KDE Turkey (in Turkish) was founded 6 months
ago with the aim to raise KDE usage, consciousness and also to be a central
point for KDE endeavour in Turkey.
The KDevelop Team and Open Source Developers Network Ukraine are proud to
announce the First Linux Desktop Development and KDevelop Developers
Conference that will be held in Kiev, Ukraine, 1st to 6th of July 2005.
The conference program: