After a brief hiatus that seemed closer to an eternity, I'm pleased to report that the dot is back and all is good. A big "Thank You!" goes out to Chris McDonough and Jim Fulton of Zope Corporation, Chris Withers of Squishdot fame, and the wonderful Zope community at #zope for their excellent support throughout this matter.

In this hectic week before the KDE 3.0 release,
Tink
found time to interview
Eva Brucherseifer for
this week's episode of
The People Behind KDE.
Eva is an electrical engineer from Germany and a driving force behind
the KDE-Women
and KDE-Edu projects and the

Frank Schwanz, the developer of Komba,
a popular Samba share browser,
today announced a security release. All versions of Komba2 prior to today's release are
affected by a flaw which permits other users easily to learn a share
password whenever the share is mounted. All Komba users are encouraged

Kernel Cousin KDE #36 is out and as the KDE developers are working on polishing up the project for a new major release, there is lots of news from the mailing lists. This issue covers media streams, wallpapers, KOffice and of course the nearing KDE 3.0 release.

Lo and behold Tink's latest community undertaking, the KDE Cafe mailing-list. In her own words: "KDE-Cafe is the virtual chill-out zone of KDE, a cross between Slashdot and IRC, a cross between the local pub and the opinions page of your newspaper. Specially designed for KDE addicts like you." So there. More details ahead.

The KDE Project has announced the release
of KDE 3.0RC3 (on this, the first day of Spring). The release comes a month after the release of KDE 3.0beta2, with

Richard Moore has been
working diligently on a rewrite of
KWinTV, the KDE
TV-card application. The "new" KWinTV (screenshots:
Channel
Wizard;
Channel
Wizard - Scanning;
Channel

In this week's
edition of Kernel Cousin KDE,
Aaron J. Seigo
covers the KDE 3 RC releases, the controversy about KDE 3 release
coordination, progress with KOffice,
trouble on the documentation front, and the new
Qt C# bindings.

One of the more recent endeavours in the KDE world is the KDEduware project. A strong and valiant team is playing hard with this new enterprise. Tink speaks this week to
a member of this team, Andy Fawcett.

Today marks a special coincidence. First,
Adam
Treat released the initial version of
Qt bindings for C#,
which consists of 476 Qt classes converted to C#.
The bindings work with the Mono
compiler, runtime environment and class libraries, enabling a fully Open Source implementation of C# for Qt. While not yet ready for