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KDE Students Excel during Google Code-in 2018

Wednesday, 16 January 2019  |  Unknow

After many years of successful Google Code-in participation, this year we did it again! KDE attracted a number of students with exciting tasks for their eager young minds.

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KDE Applications 18.12 Are Waiting for You

Thursday, 13 December 2018  |  Skadinna
It's that time of the year again. Everyone is in a festive mood and excited about all the new things they're going to get. It's only natural, since it's the season of the last KDE Applications release for this year! Read More

Do your part! Squash bugs for Kdenlive!

Friday, 30 November 2018  |  Paul Brown

On the 2nd of December, the Kdenlive team will be holding an open bug-squashing day in preparation for the major refactoring release due in April 2019. Everybody is invited!

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Necuno Mobile: An open phone with Plasma Mobile

Thursday, 29 November 2018  |  Paul Brown

Necuno Solutions and KDE are collaborating to offer Plasma Mobile on the Necuno Mobile, a device Necuno describes as "a truly open source hardware platform".

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Nextcloud Founder Frank Karlitschek awarded 20,000 euros -- Donates prize to promote inclusiveness

Tuesday, 30 October 2018  |  Unknow

Frank Karlitschek, founder of Nextcloud and recipient of this year's Reinhard von Koenig award.

Frank Karlitschek, the founder of Nextcloud, has won the Reinhard von Koenig award and will be donating the winnings, amounting to € 20,000, to start a fund called "Nextcloud Include".

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LaKademy 2018 Celebrates 22 Years of KDE

Thursday, 25 October 2018  |  Unknow
LaKademy, or Latin American Akademy, is the annual meeting of the Latin American KDE community - one of the biggest Free software communities in the world. The event takes place since 2012, and is open to all developers, artists, users, and everyone who wants to contribute in any way to the software created or maintained by the community. Read More

Google Code-in 2018 is about to start!

Tuesday, 23 October 2018  |  Unknow

After a break in 2017, the KDE community is participating in the Google Code-in contest as a mentoring organization. This means that pre-university students aged 13 to 17 from all over the world will be able to contribute to the Free Software movement by helping KDE develop software products that give users control, freedom, and privacy.

Google Code-in is a global online contest with the goal of helping teenagers get involved in the world of open source development. Mentors from the participating organizations lend a helping hand as participants complete various bite-sized tasks in coding, graphics design, documentation, and more.

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KDE e.V. receives a sizeable donation from Handshake Foundation

Monday, 15 October 2018  |  Unknow

We are excited to announce that the KDE e.V. received a donation of 300,000 USD from the Handshake Foundation. Quite appropriate for a birthday present, as the KDE project just turned 22 this last weekend!

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Plasma and KDE neon Team Visit Deployments in Catalunya

Saturday, 13 October 2018  |  Jriddell
KDE members in the impressive foyer at Escola del Treball

Meeting with Pablo of Catalan Generalitat distro Linkat

Last week developers from the KDE neon and Plasma teams visited Barcelona. We were there to meet with some KDE software projects we had heard about in the Catalan government and schools. Aleix Pol lives locally and works on Plasma and Discover. He invited Plasma release manager and KDE neon developer Jonathan Riddell, KDE neon continuous integration master Harald Sitter, and hardware enablement guru Rohan Garg to meet the teams evaluating our software and supporting our users.

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Plasma 5.14 Comes with New Features and a Much Polished Environment

Tuesday, 9 October 2018  |  Jriddell
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<p> Tuesday, 9 October 2018. Today KDE launches the first release of <a href="https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.14.0.php">Plasma 5.14</a>. </p>

<p> Plasma is KDE's lightweight and full featured Linux desktop. For the last three months we have been adding features and fixing bugs and now invite you to install Plasma 5.14. </p>

<p> A lot of work has gone into improving Discover, Plasma's software manager, and, among other things, we have added a Firmware Update feature and many subtle user interface improvements to give it a smoother feel. We have also rewritten many effects in our window manager KWin and improved it for slicker animations in your work day. Other improvements we have made include a new Display Configuration widget which is useful when giving presentations. </p> </pr

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