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The KDE Project is proud to announce its plans for the "KDE Community World Summit 2004", code-named "aKademy". The first edition of this new international event will be held in Ludwigsburg, Germany, near Stuttgart. Taking place from August 21st to 29th 2004, the Summit will include an exciting program of talks, presentations, tutorials and joint development, bug-fixing, design and polishing work on the leading Linux and Unix desktop environment. Read More

As part of the March 2004 issue of the "Application of the month" series on KDE.de, Andreas C. Diekmann has interviewed Nicolas Hadacek, author of KSirtet, a Tetris clone for KDE. The Dutch KDE website is offering an English translation of the interview as well as the overview of this issue. Read More

Most European legal frame related to new technologies is cooked up at Brussels. Its future members will decide on the patentability of software, on data privacy issues, TPRM, and so on. On 14th and 15th April a conference and Linux User Group event chaired by Daniel Cohn-Bendit (member of European parlament) takes place. Join an install party within European Parliament (and bring your favorite MEP with you). Attend a panel with eg. Alan Cox, Georg Greve, Jon Lech Johansen (of decss fame). Participate in a guided tour through Brussels (Demonstration for a Free Information Infrastructure ("Anti-Swpat")). Meet LUGs and development teams from all over the place, and the software patent experts of FFII. Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: A new release of Rosegarden. KStars adds ability to use V4L devices. KPilot adds interface to Python and Perl conduits. Kontact adds groupware configuration wizards for Kolab and eGroupware. KWord and KSpread support OpenOffice format natively. Read More

The People Behind KDE is staying on base this week. The guy I'm interviewing is multi-talented and full of surprises, not only is he KDE-NL's own webmaster/translator/bug-submitter but also a musician and teacher. His favorite thing is his low-racer. You think a low racer is a kind of jeans style? Guess again... ;-] Get to know the person behind KDE-NL's website, Wilbert Berendsen! Read More

Everyone who has programmed an application knows that sometimes you create a gadget that can be reused in other situations, and that code reuse is good. In the specific case of GUI applications, often what you would want to reuse is a widget. I wrote a short tutorial explaining how to create easy-to-reuse custom widgets using PyQt. Read More

The KDE Germany Team was exhibiting the KDE team's achievements at the world's largest computer trade show CeBIT in Hannover, Germany from 18.03 - 24.03. Hosted at the booth of Linup-Front, the team presented KDE 3.2 as well as a recent developer snapshot of KDE PIM on an Athlon64 system. Most people asked to see the KDE/Qt integration for OpenOffice.org and GTK as well as Kontact. They were impressed to learn how fast KDE is implementing the promise to become the "Integrative Desktop Environment" that lets you use a wide variety of popular applications while still maintaining consistency in look and -to some extent- even feel. Another focus of interest was KIOSK, which is now even easier to handle thanks to Kiosk Tool. Read on for the full story about KDE at CeBIT 2004. Read More

Just a quick note to let you know that I will be doing a presentation about the potential for Linux as a desktop platform at this year's Linux User & Developer Expo in London on April 20th from 15:25 - 15:55. The talk is entitled "Linux as a viable desktop platform" and I will be covering a number of subjects to do with desktop Linux, of which KDE plays a big part. I will also be discussing GNOME, FreeDesktop.org, Project Utopia and other technologies in the presentation. For more details have a look at the Linux User & Developer Conference website and get in touch with me if you have any questions. I hope to see some of you there. :) Read More

NewsForge's Robin Miller tested if Kopete satisfies his instant-messaging and IRC needs and can replace the separate applications GAIM and XChat he used so far. He asserts that Kopete is a fine choice especially if you run it under KDE and enjoy the good KDE integration. Read More

Following the success of the KDE 3.2 release, the KDE project is pleased to announce a new ambitious project dubbed 'Kimono'. The aim of the project is to write a complete wrapper for KDE/Qt using the Mono framework and is based on early work by KDE bindings hacker extraordinaire Richard Dale. In addition to using Mono for the back-end work, Kimono will entail migrating to KaXul, a fully XML-based representation of the UI. Kimono will be the main focus of the forthcoming KDE 3.3 release. Read More