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KDE Gears Up to a Free Cloud

Sunday, 24 January 2010 | Areichman

Day 2 of Camp KDE kicked off with a bang when Frank Karlitschek announced the start of a significant new KDE project. The ownCloud initiative will complement the Social Desktop and Get Hot New Stuff efforts which are already dealing with social and collaborative data. Like those, the ownCloud initiative strives to combine the rich desktop interfaces made possible by the Qt and KDE libraries with the large amount of social information and data users are putting online. Read More

TiltOS Introduces KDE Applications For Haiku

Sunday, 24 January 2010 | Dequire

KDE applications on Haiku

Continuing the theme of "KDE Everywhere", recently it was announced by the folks over at TiltOS that KDE applications are now available for download and use. TiltOS provides a repository and an easy to use application manager for the Haiku operating system, which is in turn aims to be an open source implementation of the BeOS operating system. The available applications include:

kchmviewer, kdeaccessibility, kdeadmin, kdebase, kdeedu, kdegames, kdegraphics, kdelibs, kdelibs-experimental, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdepimlibs, kdepim-runtime, kdesdk, kdetoys, kdeutils, kdevplatform, kdewebdev, kdiff3, koffice and many others packages. In all there are about 150 applications ready to run.

Credativ Develops Two Groupware Resources for Akonadi

Saturday, 23 January 2010 | Liquidat

Credativ has supported the development of two more Akonadi resources - bringing more Groupware resources to upcoming releases of the KDE PIM suite. Read here for a quick Q&A about this. Read More

Camp KDE 2010 Continues with More Talks

Thursday, 21 January 2010 | Jospoortvliet

The second day of Camp KDE was filled with many more interesting talks. This day's talks were of the more technical nature versus the first day, and the KDE team took notes. As usual, the talks were recorded and videos will be available soon. A detailed rundown of the second day of talks are behind the link. Read More

Camp KDE Day Three Technical Talks Summaries

Thursday, 21 January 2010 | Troy

The third day of talks at Camp KDE was somewhat shorter, due to the afternoon Cmake training provided by Marcus Hanwell of Kitware. However, in order to provide complete coverage of the talks for the readers of the dot, summaries of the third day's technical talks are provided within. Read More

KOffice Based Office Viewer Launched for Nokia N900

Thursday, 21 January 2010 | Jriddell

An alpha version of Office Viewer has been uploaded to the repositories for the N900. Users of Nokia's smart phone can install the KOffice based app to view word processing documents, spreadsheets and presentation. The application can also be used to give presentations. "This shows both how portable and lean on resources KOffice is" says Inge Wallin, the marketing coordinator of KOffice, "we hope and believe that this is only the first port of KOffice to other mobile devices.

Day One at Camp KDE 2010

Sunday, 17 January 2010 | Jospoortvliet

The first day of Camp KDE is behind us, with the first of the many presentations being well attended. A full summary of the talks lives behind the break, and videos will be online shortly. If you are in the San Diego region, feel free to join us for Camp KDE for talks and training. Read More

Camp KDE About to Start!

Saturday, 16 January 2010 | Jospoortvliet

Tomorrow morning, the third major North American KDE event will start with an introduction by Jeff Mitchell and Aaron Johnson. At 11:00 a keynote by University of California San Diego professor Philip Bourne will introduce us to the university's Open Data initiative and after a lunch we'll get going with the various presentations. Read More

Annual Osnabrück PIM Meeting Brings Exciting Announcements and Ambitious Plans

Thursday, 14 January 2010 | Steveire

On the second weekend in January the 8th incarnation of the annual KDE PIM meeting in Osnabrück, Northern Germany, took place. This meeting has a longer history than any other regular KDE contributor event. As in all previous years, the meeting was hosted by Intevation GmbH. Up to 20 contributors followed an agenda of discussing design, marketing, attracting new developers, tools to assist and monitor progress, and the present and future of KDE PIM. Read More

KDE Italia Announces New Website

Thursday, 14 January 2010 | Opensourcecat

The admins and editors behind the Italian KDE Portal and forum are proud to announce the availability of the new KDE Italia site.

By announcing the availability of both the new site and the forum (which is on the official kde.org forums now), the KDE Italia team invites everyone to visit and have a look. There's not much there for now, but content is growing every hour thanks to the dedicated team working on it!