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Thank You Akademy 2014 Sponsors

Tuesday, 2 September 2014 | Kallecarl

Akademy is a non-commercial event, free of charge for all who want to attend. Generous sponsor support helps make Akademy possible. Most of the Akademy budget goes towards travel support for KDE community members from all over the world, contributors who would not be able to attend the conference otherwise. The wide diversity of attendees is essential to the success of the annual in-person Akademy conference. Many thanks to Akademy 2014 sponsors

Sponsors receive benefits beyond the feel-good rewards of supporting a worthy cause. They have the opportunity to:

Meet Cornelius Schumacher - Akademy Keynote Speaker

Wednesday, 27 August 2014 | Kallecarl

Cornelius Schumacher
photo by Michal Kubeček

At Akademy 2014, outgoing KDE e.V. Board President Cornelius Schumacher will give the community keynote. He has attended every Akademy and has been amazed and inspired at every one of them. If you want more of what KDE can bring to your life, Cornelius's talk is the perfect elixir.

Here are glimpses of Cornelius that most of us have never seen. They give a sense of what has made him a successful leader of KDE for several years.

KDE Commit-Digest for 25th May 2014

Monday, 25 August 2014 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Amarok implements popular demand to restore scroll location when collection filter is cleared; adds a new option to support icon-view large thumb size (over 256x256 px)
Plasma desktop streamlines comment fields of KCMs by applying common language and type-setting to the systemsettings modules in kde-workspace
Kopete adds support for SOCKS5 proxy in ICQ protocol
Umbrello sees work on UML 2.0
Krita adds the indexed color filter
Porting to KF5/Qt5 continues, including massif-visualizer and partitionmanager.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Meet Sascha Meinrath - Akademy Keynote Speaker

Saturday, 23 August 2014 | Kallecarl

Sascha Meinrath
photo from fisl quinze (Fórum Internacional do Software Livre) CC-BY-SA

A few weeks ago, the keynote speakers for Akademy were announced. KDE is fortunate to have Sascha Meinrath at Akademy in Brno, Czech Republic to open our eyes about hot topics and important issues. Sascha's work doesn't fit into limited categories; he's an activist, think tank founder, policy pundit, hacker, futurist, political strategist and more...as the following interview shows.

For people want to know more about you Tech policy and political strategy work can often be both high-impact and high-stress. To relax, I like to cook -- not the sort of "oh hey, I can cook a few dishes o.k." cooking -- more, "you should open a gourmet restaurant". For the past 8 years, I've been hosting an epicurean feast called "Basque" (long story), which usually brings together 1-5 dozen people for 2-4 dozen courses. We've done everything from cooking with dangerous chemicals to building a KitchenAid-powered lamb rotisserie.

LaKademy 2014 - KDE Latin America Summit

Wednesday, 20 August 2014 | Araceletorres

Two years have passed since the reality of the first Latin American meeting of KDE contributors in 2012 in Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Now we are proud to announce that the second LaKademy will be held August 27th to 30th in São Paulo, Brazil, at one of the most important and prestigious universities in the world—the University of São Paulo. Read More

Release 4.14 - KDE Applications get better and better

Wednesday, 20 August 2014 | Kallecarl

The KDE Community has announced the latest major updates to KDE Applications delivering primarily improvements and bugfixes. Plasma Workspaces and the KDE Development Platform are frozen and receiving only long term support; those teams are focused on the transition to Plasma 5 and Frameworks 5. This 4.14 release is dedicated to long time KDE contributor Volker Lanz who passed away last April. The full announcement has more information and details. Read More

KDE Frameworks Sprint - How to Release a Platform

Wednesday, 13 August 2014 | Jriddell

Konqui finds the Spectacular Montjuic next door to the KDE office.

KDE Frameworks 5 is the result of two years of hard work porting, tidying, modularizing and refactoring KDELibs4 into a new addition to the Qt 5 platform. In January, Alex Fiestas announced The KDE Barcelona Hub—an office where anyone is welcome to come and work on KDE projects. It was just what the Frameworks team needed to finish off the code so it could be released to the world. Read on for some of what happened.

First Bugfix Update to Plasma 5

Tuesday, 12 August 2014 | Jriddell

KDE is now getting into the swing of releases numbered 5. Today we add Plasma 5's first bugfix update. The release features KDE's flagship desktop project as well as the base software needed to keep your computer running. Plasma will have feature releases every three months and bugfix releases in the months in between.

This update adds all the translations for the last month as well as a bunch of fixes for issues such as using the right icons, showing toolbars on second screens, using translations and fixes for right to left text. Grab your distro packages or you can try the new Kubuntu Plasma 5 images.

First Update to KDE Frameworks 5

Thursday, 7 August 2014 | Jriddell

KDE has today made the first update to KDE Frameworks 5. Frameworks are our addon libraries for Qt applications which provide numerous useful features using peer reviewed APIs and regular monthly updates. This release has 60 different Frameworks, adding features from Zip file support to Audio file previews. For a full list, see KDE's Qt library archive website Inqlude. In this release KAuth gets a backend so you can again add features which require root access, KWallet gets a migration system from its KDELibs 4 version, and support has been added for AppStream files.

Akademy 2014 Program Schedule: Fast, fun, inspiring

Monday, 4 August 2014 | Jospoortvliet

The Akademy Program Committee is excited to announce the Akademy 2014 Program. It is worth the wait! We waded through many high quality proposals and found that it would take more than a week to include all the ones we like. However we managed to bring together a concise and (still packed) schedule.

Sharing

As we wrote in the Call for Papers, sharing is an important goal of Akademy. So on Saturday and Sunday in the morning, there will be a single track in the main room which will start with a keynote, followed by 9 short talks. These cover a wide range of KDE-related topics including technical, governance, design, social issues and more, providing inspiration and material for further conversation and debate. Some examples are:

the state of KWin and Akonadi,
an argument for collecting data on KDE usage,
the work involved in moving GCompris to QtQuick,
release management,
and automated testing.

In the afternoon, there are two tracks of longer, more traditional talks, with a stronger-than-usual in-depth focus. The goal of these sessions is to share knowledge and experience, to learn from each other. In these sessions, you can explore: