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Successful KDE Finances Sprint Held

Thursday, 15 July 2010 | Gdebure

On April 23rd, developers from various finance-related KDE applications gathered in Eschborn, near Frankfurt, Germany for the first ever KDE Finance Sprint. The fellowship was composed of developers from KMyMoney, Kraft and Skrooge. This was a week after the ash cloud stopped all flights over Europe. Until the last minute, it was not clear whether those who were coming by plane would be able to make it. Fortunately, the airports opened just in time. Read on for a report for the meeting. Read More

KDE e.V. and KDE España Sign Agreement to Further KDE Community

Wednesday, 14 July 2010 | Jospoortvliet

During Akademy 2010, KDE e.V. and KDE España signed an agreement making KDE España the official representative of KDE e.V. in Spain. This will bring the international KDE community and the Spanish KDE community closer, while giving our local friends the authority to act officially as our representatives. Read More

Akademy 2010 in the News

Monday, 12 July 2010 | Stuart Jarvis

Akademy is barely over, but tech news sites and mainstream publications are already reporting on events in Tampere.

DistroWatch on Nokia's Akademy Keynote

Popular Linux and BSD distribution tracking website DistroWatch has a report on Nokia's keynote presentation at this year's Akademy conference. The report covers the views of Valtteri Halla (Nokia's Director of MeeGo Software) on how MeeGo will succeed by working with communities such as KDE. It also reports on how KDE's Plasma framework shares many goals with MeeGo, particularly the use of a single codeset across many applications and has news of early ports of KDE software to mobile devices.

Read the full story in DistroWatch Weekly.

KDE e.V. Quarterly Reports Relaunched

Sunday, 11 July 2010 | Jriddell

KDE e.V. is the legal body which holds our finances and represents the project in a range of issues. Our Quarterly Reports have restarted with a special bumper issue covering 2009 Q2 to 2010 Q1. It covers the many sprints which e.V. organises for our contributors to get together in person with their KDE teams. It also covers events e.V. has helped KDE to attend and the working groups it oversees. Read More

Last Days at Akademy 2010

Sunday, 11 July 2010 | Jospoortvliet

Unfortunately, all good things come to an end. Friday was the last day at Akademy and by the evening a few people had already gone. Others were sitting at Demola, scattered around the place or chatting in small groups. Others decided to stay at TOAS, the larger accommodation for many community members and use the public spaces there for hacking and talking. As usual, everyone was tired from a week of hard work and hard play. Read More

Planet KDE Goes International

Friday, 9 July 2010 | Ungethym

During Akademy the promo team discussed the idea to have localized Planets in different languages. The same day, Planet Master Jonathan Riddell jumped on it right away, and already the Planet in Spanish is online.

Blogs from various Spanish speaking bloggers and KDE contributors are aggregated there. Everyone interested in what is going on in the Spanish language KDE community can visit the site where you can also find an RSS-feed for easy syndication.

4.5 RC2 Available

Thursday, 8 July 2010 | Sebas

While many KDE developers are enjoying, contemplating, hacking, discussing, designing, planning and promoting KDE's trinity of software products (The Plasma Desktop, the Application Suite and the Development Platform), the release team also found some time to make another release candidate available. 4.5 RC2 is now available in source form from KDE's FTP servers for everybody to give a test run. There is still some time to fix last minute bugs, so please help us by reporting them, so we can make this a smooth release.

Akademy 2010: Almost Like Being There

Wednesday, 7 July 2010 | Stuart Jarvis

Not everyone can make it to Akademy, although given the record number of people captured in the group photo, it probably seems like everyone did.

Georg Greve on KDE and the Supporting Membership Program

Wednesday, 7 July 2010 | Jospoortvliet

At LinuxTag 2010, the KDE community announced the "Join the Game" campaign to support KDE e.V.'s Supporting Membership Program. The first new member was Georg Greve, founder of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). We caught up with him for a 'short' interview that turned into a two hour conversation about life, the universe and everything. The pertinent bits are excerpted below. Read More

Akademy Day 2

Monday, 5 July 2010 | Stuart Jarvis

After a successful first day of talks and the Akademy party, hundreds of KDE contributors returned to the University of Tampere for the second day of the conference. Already, the slides and videos are starting to be uploaded on the Akademy website, for those of you who couldn't make it to Akademy or are here but couldn't attend two presentations at once. Read More