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What an exciting KDE summer! Release dude Coolo is planning the KDE 3.3 release for just 3 days before "aKademy" starts: The release plan was published on Saturday for discussion! Developers should make sure to get the stuff listed they plan to have ready for 3.3 in the planned-features document as soon as possible. KDE 3.3 Alpha is prepared around May 23rd and June 1st will see the first freeze (excluding outstanding listed features and i18n strings) kicking in. Read More

After a week of absence The People Behind KDE travels all the way to beautiful Curitiba in Brazil to have a chat with one of KDE's most active developers. This guy is active on many fronts within KDE, his latest addition is the adoption of KDE by the Brazilian government and he doesn't stop there! Read all about Connectiva's Helio Chissini de Castro! Read More

The organizing team for the KDE Community World Summit is asking for submissions of talks and presentations to the big KDE event in August. Deadline is 30th of May. Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: KMail adds filter for attachments and Evolution import. KDE has a new configuration creator and editor. Work continues on Quanta's PHP debugger, KJSEmbed with more examples, KDevelop's documentation browser, Kexi's query designer and much more. Read More

The Xandros Desktop OS is known for their intuitive graphical environment that works right out of the box. Their polished desktop product is based on KDE. Your humble Dot editor had the privilege to talk to Rick Berenstein, Xandros Chairman and CTO and Ming Poon,Vice President for Software Development about Xandros and their products and the relationship between Xandros and the KDE project. Without further due ... enjoy the interview! Read More

In order to create a community platform, we have set up a wiki entirely devoted to Python GUI development with PyQt and PyKDE. So if you don't know anything about it, the time might be great, because a new version of PyKDE supporting the KDE APIs up to 3.2.2 is currently in Beta stage - and a release is coming soon! In the wiki, you will find links to tutorials on how convenient Qt or KDE programming can be without C++, no matter if you use it for rapid prototyping or for the actual applications. And maybe you never read about eric3, the Python IDE entirely written in and for PyQt? Read More

The Quanta team has just released the first Bleeding Edge technology preview of Quanta from the new kdewebdev module. This includes KMDI, CSS enhancements, a new link checker, imagemap editor and a new embedded PHP debugging interface (be sure to get Gubed and the howto for setting up Gubed if you want to try it out). There's too much new to list in a small space but you can run Quanta BE and Quanta side by side with separate configuration files and there is crash recovery. So there is no risk in trying it. Check out the screenshots, get the full story on all the new features and grab a copy. If you like what we've done remember that Quanta sponsors two developers now so your donations really do make a difference. Read More

KDE's main CVS server received a memory upgrade today bringing its total memory to 2.5 GB RAM. The CVS server forms the heart of KDE's technical infrastructure and is responsible for providing KDE developers world wide with up to date versions of the KDE software. Due to the increasing number of KDE developers and KDE hosted projects the previous configuration reached its limits. With the new memory we expect to be able to provide reliable operation for quite some time to come. The memory upgrade has been financed from the generous donations that KDE has received. Thank you! Read More

The KOffice team is happy to bring you the first bugfix package that builds upon the successful 1.3 version, adding even more enhanced OpenOffice.org import and export filters, improved spellchecking with ispell, fixes in hyphenation and many more. See the release notes and the complete list of changes. Read More

KDE announces the immediate opening of registration for the KDE Community World Summit event. Taking place for 9 days (from 21st to 29th of August in Ludwigsburg, Germany) the organizing team is scheduling 5 different event modules. Read More