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A KDE Love Story: Translating Kalzium into Chinese
Today is "I Love Free Software Day"! We're celebrating by shining a spotlight on our contributors and on our collaboration with other FOSS communities and organizations. Free Software is an integral part of our lives, and it's important to show appreciation, support, and gratitude to everyone who works on making it better every day. One of those people is Franklin Weng, a KDE contributor who started his Free Software journey by translating Kalzium. Franklin's contributions led him to amazing opportunities and projects. Read on to find out why he loves KDE so much.
Read MoreThe New KDE Slimbook II: A sleek and powerful Plasma-based Ultrabook
There is a new KDE Slimbook on sale as from today. The KDE Slimbook II is svelte and smart on the outside, but powerful and fast on the inside.
To start with, it comes with a choice between an Intel i5: 2.5 GHz Turbo Boost 3.1 GHz - 3M Cache CPU, or an Intel i7: 2.7 GHz Turbo Boost 3.5 GHz with a 4M Cache. This makes the KDE Slimbook II 15% faster on average than its predecessor. The RAM has also been upgraded, and the KDE Slimbook now sports 4, 8, or 16 GBs of DDR4 RAM which is 33% faster than the DDR3 RAM installed on last year's model.
Read MorePlasma 5.12 is out, and it is faster, stabler, and has more features than ever
Although performance and stability have been the prime goals for this version of Plasma, some of the new features include spring-loaded folder views, improved Wayland support, interactive notifications, and more.
Read MoreReasons to Get Excited about KDE in 2018
Despite the security meltdown that swept over the tech community, our 2018 started out great - and it's all thanks to you. Your donations helped us reach the goal of our end-of-year fundraiser.
Read MoreAkademy 2018 Call for Participation
Akademy Poster by Jens Reuterberg
What we are looking for
The goal of the conference section of Akademy is to learn and teach new skills and share our passion around what we're doing in KDE with each other.
Read MoreThe KDE Community in 2017
Remember to donate to our End of Year fundraiser and support our community and its work.
It's the time of year for recaps. We already talked about the advancements in KDE's software, and it makes sense we talk about that first. To many people and for many years, "KDE" was synonymous with a desktop environment and its applications. That is, KDE was its software.
Read MoreKDE End-of-Year Fundraiser 2017 is Live!
It's that time of the year again - the time for our End-of-Year fundraiser!
After an exciting and successful year, we give you all an opportunity to help us recharge our proverbial batteries.
Read MoreLooking Back at Randa Meetings 2017: Accessibility for Everyone
A software developer's life can get lonely. Developers spend a lot of time immersed in their code, and often don't get to see the direct impact of their work on the users. That is why events like Randa Meetings are necessary. They help build bonds within the community and show the developers that their work is appreciated.
Read MoreKDE's Goals for 2018 and Beyond
The KDE community has spoken and it has chosen the proposals which will define the general direction of the KDE project over the next three or four years.
Read MoreKDE Around the World: FOSSCOMM 2017, Greece
FOSSCOMM logo.
Source: Official FOSSCOMM Facebook page.
On the 4th and the 5th of November, the FOSSCOMM 2017 conference took place at Harokopio University of Athens, Greece. The KDE Community had a presence at the conference. Our Greek troops gave a talk on Sunday about the past, present and future of KDE, focusing on the vision of the community.
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