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App Review of GCompris: Kids' Happiness

Tuesday, 26 January 2016 | Jriddell

Our series of articles by Google Code In students continues with a review of educational applications GCompris by Sergey Popov.

If you have children, you know how hard it is to make a child happy and interested in something for a long time. But there is an easy way to do that: show them GCompris. It is a really great game set for children 2-10 years old and they surely will like it. You may ask, if GCompris is really so good, and I would answer you "Yes". And that is not a joke. Here are some proofs of that. But, you know, nothing is ideal, so I will also mention its bad sides (unfortunately, they are present too).

Qt is Guaranteed to Stay Free and Open – Legal Update

Wednesday, 13 January 2016 | Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer

KDE develops Free, Open Source Software. Most of the KDE software uses the Qt library, which is available under compatible free licenses. The continued availability of Qt as Free Software is safeguarded by the KDE Free Qt Foundation, founded in 1998. Recently, the foundation was able to conclude an updated agreement with The Qt Company that extends the scope of the protection and allows a license update. Read More

KDE Plasma 5.5: The Quintessential 2016 Review

Tuesday, 12 January 2016 | Jriddell

KDE contributor Ken Vermette has written The Quintessential 2016 Review of Plasma 5.5 which was released last month, a 9 page cover of the good, the bad and the beautiful.

First Plasma Wayland Live Image

Friday, 18 December 2015 | Jriddell

The Plasma team has been working on an early Christmas present: a live image running Plasma on Wayland.

Being able to run a full session of Plasma with applications is a major milestone in our aim of moving from the 30 year old X Window System to its replacement.

Plasma 5.5 With Beautiful New Artwork

Tuesday, 8 December 2015 | Jriddell

Tuesday, 8 December 2015. Today KDE releases a feature update to its desktop software, Plasma 5.5.

Randa Meetings 2015 - Huge Success Again

Monday, 7 December 2015 | Unormal

The Randa Meetings 2015 came to a successful end a while ago, so it is time to look back, see what we achieved and give you a little summary of the events that took place in the Swiss Alps this year. As usual we had quite a collection of meetings in one big house, which is why the event is called Randa Meetings, in plural. We might have already explained that last year, but it seems to be something that doesn't stick yet! Read More

KDE at USENIX/LISA2015 Conference

Monday, 23 November 2015 | Mpyne

USENIX, in cooperation with LOPSA (League of Professional System Administrators), presented the 2015 LISA (Large Installation System Administration) Conference in Washington, D.C. USA from 8 November to 13 November. Two members of the KDE Community represented KDE at the Conference Expo, connecting with many of the 1,060 attendees to discuss successful large scale deployment and other KDE goodness.

Yash Shah and Michael Pyne demonstrated the features of the Plasma 5 desktop and underlying KDE Frameworks, with a focus on how those features can help meet enterprise IT needs.

KDE Ships Plasma 5.4.3, Bugfix Release for November

Tuesday, 10 November 2015 | Jriddell

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.4.3. Plasma 5.4 was released in August with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.

LISA 2015 - Washington DC, November 11 and 12

Wednesday, 4 November 2015 | Kallecarl

KDE will have an exhibit in the Expo at the upcoming LISA (Large Installation System Administration) Conference. The full conference takes place November 8 ‒ 13 in Washington D.C. The Expo is open on the 11th and 12th. There is no charge to attend the Expo.

KDE e.V. Quarterly Report - 2014Q4

Monday, 26 October 2015 | Sandroandrade

The KDE e.V. report for the fourth quarter of 2014 is available (PDF). It features a compendium of all the activities and events carried out, supported and funded by KDE e.V. in that period, as well as the reporting of major events, conferences and mentoring programs that KDE has been involved in.

Featured Article - Google Summer of Code 2014

The featured article covers the results that students of Google Summer of Code achieved for KDE in 2014. It presents an overview of each student's contributions and a retrospect of KDE history in Google Summer of Code. KDE has been involved in Google Summer of Code since 2005. Since then, 389 students have made the journey into the awesome world of Free Software and KDE technology. In 2014, 39 young FLOSS lovers worked hard to improve KDE projects such as Marble, Parley, Kig, Plasma Media Center, Calligra, KDevelop, and digiKam.

Other Activities

The report also describes a synopsis of member activities during the fourth quarter of 2014. The digiKam Coding Sprint, in Berlin, focused mostly on porting digiKam to Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5. During the PIM Winter Sprint, in Munich, several user stories and scenarios for enabling user-centric design of Kontact were investigated. The KDE e.V. Board winter meeting, in Barcelona, included several topics regarding KDE as a community, and opportunities to improve. The report also presents a summary of KDE participation in Qt Developer Days 2014 in Berlin.

Results

The report concludes with the finances for KDE e.V. in 2014, a synopsis on activities undertaken by the Sysadmin Working Group, and the contributors who joined KDE e.V. during the quarter.

We invite you to read the entire report (PDF).