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Announcing Season of KDE 2018

Sunday, 19 November 2017  |  Bgupta


Season of KDE encourages
everybody to help improve KDE.

KDE Student Programs is pleased to announce the 2018 Season of KDE for those who want to participate in mentored projects that enhance KDE in some way.

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Akademy 2018 - Vienna, Austria - 11-17 August

Friday, 17 November 2017  |  Tsdgeos


A View of Vienna.
Source: Bwag/CC-BY-SA-4.

Vienna Calling! This is not only a song by the famous Austrian singer Falco, but could also be the motto for next years Akademy.

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2017 KDE Edu Sprint

Wednesday, 1 November 2017  |  Unknow

Members of the KDE Edu team at this year's
sprint.
From left to right: Albert Astals (Ktuberling),
Filipe Saraiva (Cantor),
Mirko Boehm (Endocode),
Aleix Pol (KAlgebra), David Narvaez (Kig),
Sandro Andrade (Minuet),
Timothée Giet (GCompris),
Rishabh Gupta (Gcompris, Cantor), and
Sanjiban Bairagya (Marble).
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Private Internet Access becomes a KDE Patron

Monday, 16 October 2017  |  Unknow

Private Internet Access is joining KDE as a Patron and pledges to support the work of KDE e.V. through the corporate membership program.

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KDE Powers up the Qt World Summit

Friday, 13 October 2017  |  Paul Brown
The motto of our space at QtWS this year has been "Power up!". We put it into practice in more than one way and in the most literal of senses.
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Plasma Mobile and Purism's Librem 5 Free Smartphone

Thursday, 14 September 2017  |  Paul Brown


Artist's impression of what Plasma Mobile
would look like on the Librem 5.

"This was the plan all along", said Todd Weaver during a conference call we held with him last week. He was referring to building a free, open, and privacy-respecting smartphone.

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Public Money? Public Code! - Join the FSFE Campaign

Wednesday, 13 September 2017  |  Skadinna

Public institutions spend millions of Euros every year for the development of new software that is specifically tailored to their needs.

Unfortunately, most of this software is closed source.

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Randa Roundup - Part II

Tuesday, 12 September 2017  |  Skadinna


Marble, KDE's mapping app, will get
better turn-by-turn navigation features.

The last time we wrote about Randa Meetings 2017, preparations for the event were still in progress. The developer sprint is now in full swing. Everyone is settled in and ready to start improving, debugging and adding features to KDE's apps and frameworks. But what exactly will the developers work on during Randa 2017? Here are some more details.

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KDE and Google Summer of Code 2017: Fun, Features, Bugs, Blogs

Monday, 4 September 2017  |  Skadinna
While you were enjoying your summer vacation, our Google Summer of Code (GSoC) students were working hard on their projects. They developed new features for KDE software, stomped bugs, wrote blog posts to report on their progress, and still managed to have fun while doing all that. With the final results announcement just around the corner, let's take a look at what the students accomplished in the past three months. Read More

Randa Roundup - Part I

Saturday, 2 September 2017  |  Paul Brown


Kdenlive will be easier to use by the end of the sprint.

Our intrepid developers are getting ready to make their way to Randa, the location for KDE's autumn coding sprint, and we are gradually finding out what they will be doing up there in the Swiss mountains.

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