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LaKademy 2015 to be in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Tuesday, 21 April 2015 | Araceletorres

LaKademy 2014

The KDE Community in Brazil will host LaKademy 2015 June 3rd through 6th. The conference is an opportunity for KDE users and contributors to meet in person to make plans, work on software and other aspects of KDE technology. There will also be outreach to potential new contributors. The group is raising money for conference expenses and to offset travel costs for attendees.

Brazil has had great success with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) initiatives, often due to the leadership of KDE people. LaKademy is a way to continue this advocacy, while making technical advances and strengthening the KDE presence. Certainly LaKademy provides local benefits. But the value created also has wider consequences. Brazil joins Spain and India in promoting the global reach and stature of KDE technology.

KDE Applications 15.04 Adds KDE Telepathy Chat and Kdenlive Video Editing

Thursday, 16 April 2015 | Unormal

Kdenlive is the leading video editor on Linux

Today KDE released KDE Applications 15.04 our suite of 150 applications. Notable additions in this release include Kdenlive the leading video editor on Linux and KDE Telepathy the chat application to unify your instant messaging.

Plasma 5.3 Beta Improves Power Management and Adds Media Centre Preview

Tuesday, 14 April 2015 | Jriddell

Tuesday, 14 April 2015. Today KDE releases a beta release of Plasma 5, versioned 5.2.95.

Plasma Sprint 2015

Wednesday, 8 April 2015 | Jriddell

In February 2015 the Plasma developers met in the Blue Systems office in Barcelona to discuss and plan out where we would take Plasma over the duration of the next year. The sprint consisted of active Plasma developers and visual designers from around the world, from Canada to India. Read More

Plasma 5.2 Bugfix Update

Tuesday, 24 March 2015 | Jriddell

Plasma Konqi

Tue, 24 Mar 2015. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to Plasma 5, versioned 5.2.2. Plasma 5.2 was released in January with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.

Now accepting Google Summer of Code student applications

Tuesday, 17 March 2015 | Jriddell

Attention prospective Google Summer of Code students: the student applications window has begun.

If you haven’t contacted the relevant KDE subproject yet (including umbrella projects Kubuntu and Calamares) to submit your proposal for review, it is high time to do so. Take a look at our Google Summer of Code project ideas page, pick one or more of our exciting project ideas, dazzle us with your proposal and hack your way to ultimate glory this summer! A nice paycheck is also part of the deal.

e.V. President Lydia Pintscher on the Role of a Nonprofit in Open Source Development

Thursday, 12 March 2015 | Jriddell

Linux.com interviews KDE e.V. president Lydia Pintscher. She talks about what KDE's legal body does and why it is important for open source communities to have a charity to represent them. She also discusses the difference between company and community supported projects and the status of women in open source.

KDE accepted to Google Summer of Code 2015

Friday, 6 March 2015 | Teo

The KDE student programs team is happy to announce that KDE has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015. This will allow students from around the world to work with mentors on KDE software projects. Successful students will receive stipends from Google.

The Google Summer of Code program offers development funding and mentorship to students who want to work on open source software projects. The program provides students the opportunity to learn more about coding, work within structured software development environments, and push bug fixes and new features into real-world, production software. For Google and the rest of the world, the program provides improvements to software that millions of people use on a daily basis.

digiKam Sprint 2014

Thursday, 5 March 2015 | Cauliergilles

digiKam is a mature open-source project (more than 14 years old now) that provides a digital asset management application oriented to photography post-production.

The Event

It had been almost three years since the last time the digiKam team had an opportunity to meet, talk, code and spend some time together. Gilles Caulier, the lead coordinator, was a victim of a serious car crash two years ago and was thus unable to organize or attend such an event. Now, we finally had an opportunity to meet again. After a lot of effort finding a suitable place and a date suitable for all developers to work together under optimal conditions, the digiKam coding sprint 2014 finally took place in Berlin, between November 14th and 16th 2014.

Before going through what happened during these days, we give sincere thanks to Digia, the company in charge of Qt development, for hosting the event, and also in particular Tobias Hunger, who welcomed us at Digia's offices located in the South of Berlin. Many thanks also to KDE e.V. for financial support that made the sprint possible.

People participating in the sprint (below, from left to right) :

Akademy 2015 Call for Papers and Registration open

Wednesday, 4 March 2015 | Sealne

Akademy is the KDE Community conference. If you are working on topics relevant to KDE or Qt, this is your chance to present your work and ideas at the Conference from 25th-31st July in A Coruña, Spain. The days for talks are Saturday and Sunday, 25th and 26th July. The rest of the week will be BoFs, unconference sessions and workshops. Read More