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The KDE marketing group is pleased to announce the release of SpreadKDE.org, the new home for KDE's promotional activities. Such a hub for marketing activities has been sorely lacking in KDE until now, and we consider this site a to be a key milestone in establishing a solid foundation in growing KDE's promotional activity. Read More

We know him as one of the KDE promotion heroes. He has a very long description of himself, he has a t-shirt with an interesting history and he has an explicit view on the Torvalds vs. Stallman question. Tonight the People Behind KDE series offers an interview with Tom Chance. Read More

Linux and BSD forum Linux Gangster has published a guide to Bringing The Power of ClamAV To The KDE Desktop explaining how you can use KlamAV to keep viruses off your system. "While it's true that very few of the viruses out there can do much damage to a Linux system... you certainly don't want to run the risk of passing them on to your Windows-using friends and family." Read More

The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.2, Egalité, the third development version working towards a new stable 1.4. With this release we are excited to announce the first beta of Scribus on the Windows platform. With the gracious support of Trolltech AS, developer of the Qt C++ application framework, we are able to release Scribus on Windows with Qt 3. It also includes fixes for over 290 requests and bugs. Read More

The KDE Project released a security advisory today for a heap overflow vulnerability in KJS. Earlier this month, a number of integer overflows affecting KPDF, and consequentially KOffice were found and fixed. Patches have been made available and your distributor should have updated binary packages. The KDE security advisory page has an overview of all KDE advisories. Links to source patches are contained in the advisories. Read More

There is an interview with Aaron J. Seigo on LinuxDevCenter.com. John Littler visited one of Aaron's presentations and asked him about what he was shown, the current work on KDE 4, the goals of KDE and about the KDE port to windows. He describes the technologies to be used in KDE 4 and describes some of his plans for Plasma which he describes that "the central concepts are workflow and beauty." Read More

Tonight's interview on People Behind KDE is with one of the heros of KDE localisation. This man leads the KDE Turkey group and translates KDE into Turkish. For KDE 4 he plans to get 100% Turkish support but how did he get a t-shirt with Che on it and why does he feel an affiliation towards the KDE Run Command dialogue? Find out as People Behind KDE presents Görkem Çetin. Read More

For the fourth consecutive year a group of KDE PIM developers followed the gracious invitation of Intevation GmbH to meet at their headquarters in Osnabrück, Germany on the first weekend in January. As in the past years, the face-time proved very productive especially since everyone felt that with KDE 4 the time for more fundamental changes has come. By the end of the meeting the group had agreed on a vision and initial architecture for a unified, extensible storage service for PIM data and metadata, allowing all applications on the desktop fast and reliable access as well as powerful search capabilities. This service, codenamed "Akonadi", together with intiatives like Plasma and Solid will form the basis of an exciting KDE 4 experience. Read More

The first Technical Working Group for KDE is now being formed, with elections due over the next few weeks. The Group will help the hundreds of KDE contributors come to technical decisions and smooth processes such as major releases. It will also provide technical guidance to KDE contributors. Seven members of the KDE e.V. will be elected for an initial six months. After this period the Group will be evaluated, and if it proves successful elections will take place once every year. All members of the KDE e.V. are invited to take part in the election. If you are a contributor to KDE and you would like to take part in the decision making process, you are welcome to apply for membership. Further details can be found in the Technical Working Group's charter. Read on for a little more background. Read More

Aaron Seigo will be presenting at SCALE 4x, the 2006 Southern California Linux Expo on February 11-12 in Los Angeles. His presentation will cover the next KDE release and how the Plasma project is looking to reinvigorate the desktop experience by centering the desktop on workflow-centric interfaces. Additionally KDE will have a booth on the expo hall floor. SCALE 4x's discounted early bird registration is open until January 15, 2006. For 40% off use the promo code "KDE". Read More