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Linux.com is featuring an article about using KOffice to create good-looking reports. The article covers importing from a database into KSpread, preparing the data for KChart and formatting it in KWord.

ReallyLinux.com's resident Granny has posted a short list of her favorite KDE applications. Granny specifically thanks Stefan Taferner, Ingo Kloecker, and Don Sanders for their outstanding work on KMail, and also has some words to say on Kate.

The HASE (Human Aspects of Software Engineering) group at the University of Maryland Baltimore County is conducting two online surveys for KDE users. They expect to obtain results that will lead to useful discussions about the overall usability of KDE. The results of this research will be shared with the KDE community. The surveys take about 15 minutes to complete.

The worldwide.kde.org contributors map has hot fresh updates. The contributor map on worldwide.kde.org shows developers, translators, doc writers, artists, packagers and other contributors of KDE in all the world. If you are a contributor to the KDE Project, submit your coordinates.

This week's KDE CVS-Digest: dnssd adds invitation support. KChart adds PNG export. KPDF adds annotation support. Speedups in khtml, KPDF, KMail, and Plastik. Plus, getting ready for Subversion.

OSDir.com has posted some screenshots of amaroK 1.2 showing off the eye candy from this feature packed music player. *** The software behind KDE-Apps.org and KDE-Look.org has been rewritten with new features and new categories and they have gained a new sponsor. *** Novell has posted a review of SUSE 9.3 which features KDE 3.4. *** Qt4Lab Data Plotter is looking for beta testers. *** Kompmgr and KDE, window eyecandy (Google cache) has a video (mirror) of the fun you can have with KWin in KDE 3.4. *** Finally congratulations to our own Zack Rusin who will soon be working for Trolltech to "make sure that X11 is again a state of the art technology".

Newsforge has an article on how to use SuperKaramba to turn your great-looking KDE desktop into something amazing. "Just with a standard KDE install, I get the occasional 'Hey, that looks nice' from friends. When I discovered a program named Karamba for KDE a while back, that suddenly changed to outright 'Wow!'"

KDE's World Summit, aKademy 2005, will be held in the University of Málaga from Saturday 27th of August to Sunday 4th of September. The summit starts with a 2 day user conference followed by a 2 day developers conference then a week long coding marathon. If you plan on coming you should subscribe to the aKademy mailing list. Help in finding sponsors is especially welcomed. The call for papers is below. Update: The KDE e.V. members meeting will be on Friday 26th.

Following the trend of distributions scheduling themselves around KDE releases, Ark Linux has released their first stable version, Ark Linux 2005.1. The goal of Ark Linux is to build the easiest to use GNU/Linux distribution while keeping it technically sane.

Flexbeta is running a side-by-side comparison (all-in-one page) of CD/DVD burners NeroLinux and K3b. K3b gains plenty of praise for its integrated user interface, look and feel, functionality, free license, and quite simply comes out on top. A good read if you need to be reminded of the goodness that is K3b.