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Week after week since November 2002, Derek Kite has been posting the KDE CVS-Digest without fail. This week, due to technical issues beyond Derek's control, there will be no digest. KDE CVS-Digest is the longest running and one of the most appreciated KDE development reports in the KDE community. Derek first announced the digest on the dot on November 29th 2002, but had in fact been pushing out trial issues since November 9th. By my count that's 125 issues of KDE CVS-Digest so far, compared to 76 for KDE Traffic and 28 for KDE Development News. Hats off, Derek! Read More

The website for this year's aKademy launched today at conference2005.kde.org. It features the winning logo announced on KDE-Look, Steve King's Blush Stroke logo. It gives an overview of the program and an appeal for sponsors. Read More

The EU-funded FLOSSPOLS project is carrying out a survey of participants worldwide. This is a follow-up to the original FLOSS survey in 2002, one of the first and most comprehensive surveys of developers - who they are, how they work and why they do it. The new survey aims to provide an update, include new developers and other participants, and answer some of the questions that were raised by the first one: in particular, on the role of developer communities for learning skills and employment generation, and on the low level of participation by women. Read More

Kubuntu has announced its first release. Kubuntu 5.04 includes KDE 3.4 and the finest pick of leading Free Software desktop programmes. Live and install CD images are available for download for x86, PowerPC and AMD64, please download via Bittorrent if possible. OSDir carries some screenshots of the release. Read More

A group of KDE contributors converged on Berlin, Germany for five days at the end of March to collaborate on a variety of KDE related projects. The scope was broad and included artwork, human interface guidelines, Tenor (a contextual linkage engine), alternatives to traditional file managers and groupware applications. Graciously sponsored by Novell with additional support from basysKom, credativ and Relevantive, this group of individuals came from as far away as Canada and from as near by as 15 minutes across town. Read More

Although KOffice may not yet be at the level of functionality of OpenOffice, it is still a pretty powerful office suite albeit with relatively little coverage. This is the first of my series of easy How-To's for KOffice that hopefully anyone can follow. The first How-To, including screenshots, shows you how you can easily make use of the mail merge feature in your KWord documents. Read More

The Linux Box has interviewed Aaron Seigo on their latest episode of The Linux Box Show. He discusses Appeal and the plans for making KDE 4 the leader for usability, development and cool eye candy. Specific topics he covers include KControl, package management, KOffice and using high level programming languages. Start 5 minutes in for a brief history of KDE and 10 minutes in for the interview. "There's not going to be anything cooler than an interview with Aaron Seigo". Update: Aaron provided us with a transcript of the interview. Read More

Last Saturday saw the first Latin America Free Software Install Fest held simultaneously in 74 cities and 12 countries. KDE was present at the Santiago location for installation assistance and a talk by Maurucio Bahamonde on KDE 3.4. We offered Kubuntu Live CDs to try out the desktop and the team offered help to install. Read More

Due to severe problems with the scheduled migration of KDE's massive source code repository from the CVS revision control system to Subversion, the KDE project has decided to opt for the BitKeeper source control system as the more pragmatic choice. The full press release follows; further details on what this will mean to KDE developers and contributors requiring repository access will be posted shortly to the KDE Wiki. Read More