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Introducing Your KDE Software Labels

Monday, 21 June 2010 | Stuart Jarvis

A while ago, the KDE promo team organized a competition to choose a design for labels that producers of software within our community can use to show that they are part of KDE. Today we are happy to announce the winning designs: Read More

Report from Successful Multimedia and Edu Sprint in Randa

Saturday, 19 June 2010 | Frederik

43 persons (including organizers, designer, bugsquashers, and others) from 17 different countries gathered in Randa from Thursday 20 May to Tuesday 25 May. Why Randa? It is a marvelous place in the mountains of Switzerland where Mario Fux knew a house that would be perfect for KDE developers. Several groups that work on different parts of KDE had a chance to meet and mix in one house. Present were KDE-Education, Amarok, various multimedia people (Phonon, KMix, vlc) and Gluon developers. Read More

Akademy Announces 2010 Sponsors

Thursday, 17 June 2010 | Jospoortvliet

From July 3rd through July 10th the KDE community will gather in Tampere, Finland for our yearly Akademy conference. We are pleased to announce that, once again, a number of sponsors will be helping to make this event possible. Read More

KDE Visits FOSS Nigeria Conference 2010

Wednesday, 16 June 2010 | Frederik

Ibrahim Datsuma, one of our hosts

In 2010 the FOSS Nigeria Conference took place for the second time and, like last year, KDE attended the conference with two speakers. There was however a change in the visiting KDE team: Frederik Gladhorn joined Adriaan de Groot to take the place of Jonathan Riddell who could not make it this year. The venue for the conference was in Kano at the well-regarded Mambayya House, the Center for Democratic Research of the Bayero University. The conference date was moved from March to April, which meant that the weather presented a different face -- hot followed by rain instead of the harmattan.

Just like last year we were enthusiastically welcomed by Mustapha Abubakar, Ibrahim Datsuma and Jibril Muhammad. We arrived late at night so our first impressions were of higher temperatures, in comparison to last year, and a ride through the hot and dark night to reach the first hotel of our stay.

Dinner With Winners of Supporting Membership Draw at LinuxTag

Tuesday, 15 June 2010 | Jospoortvliet

At LinuxTag, everyone who Joined the Game as a new Supporting Member on Wednesday or Thursday gained the chance to win a place at the Join the Game dinner. So on Thursday evening, four lucky winners were drawn from the new members and invited to the Funkturm (Berlin Radio Tower) Restaurant to dine with some KDE celebrities. Read More

KDE PIM Goes Mobile

Thursday, 10 June 2010 | Steveire

KMail Mobile

News from LinuxTag Berlin

Today a prototype version of mobile variants of the KDE PIM suite was demoed at LinuxTag (expect more information some time next week). These applications along with GNU/Linux, Mac OS and Windows versions of Kontact accessing a Kolab Server will be on show for the duration of LinuxTag. The application packages themselves can be downloaded by anyone willing to test them out. Since the last update about KDE PIM Mobile, there have been many visual and functional improvements to the applications.

Announcing the KDE e.V. Supporting Membership

Wednesday, 9 June 2010 | Jospoortvliet

This morning KDE e.V., the legal organization backing the KDE community, launched its Supporting Membership programme under the slogan "Join the Game". The Join the Game programme strengthens the bonds between KDE e.V. and the wider community and provides a more sustainable and independent source of income for KDE activties. By becoming part of KDE e.V. as a Supporting Member you can help to keep the KDE servers running, fund developer meetings, let developers organize and attend conferences and trade shows and protect the legal interests of the KDE community -- this is all handled by the KDE e.V. in support of the KDE community. Read More

Second Beta for KDE SC 4.5 Available for Testing

Wednesday, 9 June 2010 | Sebas

KDE today announced the immediate availability of KDE SC 4.5 Beta2. Quoting the announcement: Over the last two weeks, roughly since the first beta, 1459 new bugs have been reported, and 1643 bugs have been closed, so we're witnessing a lot of stabilization activity right now. More testing is in place, however, while the restless developers continue to create a rock-stable 4.5.0.
Well, that looks promising, but more of that testing (and helping us fix issues!) is needed. So here is another snapshot for you to grind your teeth in.
The usual boilerplate applies as well: This release does not meet production quality requirements and should be regarded as testing ground. Read More

Join the KDE Game at Linuxtag 2010

Monday, 7 June 2010 | Sebas

This year, like every year, KDE will be present at Linuxtag, which is held from 9th to 12th in Berlin. As usual, visitors will be able to meet KDE contributors, chat about KDE and KDE-related topics, get a demonstration of the newest hotness that will be released as part of KDE SC 4.5.0 this summer, learn about the background of the KDE community and the technology it creates and of course just catch up with what's going on in KDE-land -- and that's a lot! Read More

Voting Opens for KDE Software Label Designs

Saturday, 5 June 2010 | Stuart Jarvis

Vote for your favorite

As part of our our efforts to better use our brands, we announced a set of labels for use by people creating KDE software. We chose three options: Powered by KDE, Built on the KDE Platform and Part of the KDE Family and asked for artwork for badges and banners carrying these labels so that they could be used on websites or within applications.

Vote now

We've received a number of excellent designs and now it is time to pick the best. The judging panel will include four members of the KDE promotion team and you.