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KDE Outreach Program for Women
Saturday, 13 April 2013
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Valoriez
We are pleased to announce that KDE will take part in the Outreach Program for Women (OPW) this year. OPW started in 2006 with an intention to reach talented women who are passionate about technology, but who may be uncertain about how to start contributing to free and open software projects. Since its beginning, OPW has included commercial and non-profit organizations that are leaders in free and open software.
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KDE and Google Summer of Code 2013
Friday, 12 April 2013
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Valoriez
We're delighted to announce that KDE has been accepted as a mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code 2013 (GSoC), for the ninth consecutive year. GSoC has been valuable in bringing new developers into the KDE Community and other free and open software projects. And it has been successful at achieving the goal of creating quality code for the use and benefit of all.
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KDE PIM Sprint Berlin 2013 - With Cuter Pictures
Thursday, 11 April 2013
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Jospoortvliet
Once most people had arrived at the KDAB offices in Berlin, the KDE PIM sprint started around 4 in the afternoon with an introduction by Till Adam. He welcomed everyone and issued a warning: there were only one-and-a-half crates of beer and all KDAB attempts at ordering more had failed. The participants would have to take care of this!
Friday beginnings
Cornelius then kicked off self introductions. The introductions suggested an in-crowd meme of "I do some random Kolab stuff" with Jeroen and Kevin claiming to "play around with IMAP", Volker (The Guru) topped everyone by mentioning that he's "done a patch or two to Akonadi". Nobody bothered being more modest than that. Following the introductions, tasks were brainstormed and written on sticky notes in the 'TODO' area on the whiteboard. Getting Beer became Task #1.Work started and fun as well. In the hallway, the fussball tables were busy. With over 30 participants, the hacking room couldn't hold everyone comfortably. David, coming late, even had to bring his own table to the meeting and Ingo arrived just in time for dinner at 19:00. We had our evening meal at an Asian place. There was a little trouble fitting in so many people but it was fun. A Spaniard had to tell the Indian guy what to eat ... We'll leave the results to your imagination.
Read MoreNew KDE Telepathy brings Better Text Editing and Improved Notifications
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
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David Edmundson
Good news, everyone! The KDE Telepathy team has just released version 0.6.0 of KDE Telepathy (KTp), KDE's instant messaging suite. This version brings a number of new features as well as a large amount of bug fixes.
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KDE Ships April Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Devlopment Platform
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
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Kallecarl
KDE has released updates for its Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. These updates are the second in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.10 series. 4.10.2 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the 4.10 release and are recommended updates for everyone running the 4.10 series. It will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone.
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KDE Commit-Digest for 10th February 2013
Monday, 25 March 2013
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Mrybczyn
- KDE Telepathy fixes having a notification "a new contact has added you" even when you are offline, adds .desktop-based tubes channel approver
- Nepomuk changed DBus interface to the FileIndexer for status messages
- Improvements in kscreen API
- Calligra changes as to when config ui are in a docker and when it is in a tool
- Work on new dashboard in Skrooge
- Amarok optimizes dynamic playlist generation.
Read the rest of the Digest here.
Read MoreDigia to sponsor Akademy and Qt Contributors Summit
Thursday, 21 March 2013
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Kallecarl
Digia, the largest Qt contributor, is the 2013 Platinum Sponsor for the co-hosted Akademy and Qt Contributor Summit in Bilbao. Digia is responsible for all Qt activities including product development and commercial licensing and, together with the Qt Project, open source licensing under the open governance model.
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Plasma Media Center - Release One
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
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Sinnykumari
We are proud to announce the first release (1.0.0) of Plasma Media Center. Built on Plasma and KDE technologies. Designed to offer a rich experience to media enthusiasts.
Features
PMC screenshots - click for larger
- Browse the local filesystem for media
- Use KDE Desktop Search to get a unified view of all available media
- View photos from flickr, picasa
- Create playlists from available media, play sequentially or randomly
- Developers can create custom plugins for PMC!
Videos & more screenshots
PMC on a tablet Desktop PMC More screenshotsInstall
Get the 1.0.0 release. Ubuntu and Fedora build instructions.Wiki
To know more about Plasma Media Center, check out the wiki.Bugs
Please report bugs or issues at the KDE Bug Tracker or catch up with the PMC team in the #plasma channel on freenode IRC.Newest stuff
Get the latest and greatest from PMC.Coming Up
There are already lots of improvements in PMC that will be part of an upcoming release. Please file feature requests at http://bugs.kde.org/ or contact PMC developers at plasma-devel@kde.org.Thanks
To Aaron Seigo, Alessandro Diaferia, Deepak Mittal, Fabian Riethmayer, Lukas Appelhans, Marco Martin, Onur-Hayri Bakici, Shantanu Tushar, Sinny Kumari, Sudhendu Kumar, Sujith H and everyone else who made Plasma Media Center possible.Please give PMC a try and let us know how we can improve it. Keep the comments coming :)
Read MoreKDE e.V. Quarterly Report for Q4 2012
Friday, 8 March 2013
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Kallecarl
The KDE e.V. report for the fourth quarter of 2012 has been published. It gives an overview of the activities KDE e.V. supported during that period, including reports of various sprints, conferences and projects.
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KDE Meetup 2013 - India
Thursday, 7 March 2013
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KShah
On the 23rd of February, a crowd of about 330 enthusiastic people gathered to be a part of the first major open source event in the State of Gujarat, India. Some people traveled hundreds of kilometers to attend, coming from places such as Delhi, Durgapur (more than 1800 km), Nainital, Bardoli and Mumbai. Students from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT) in Gandhinagar organized the event—KDE Meetup 2013. It was an opportunity for passionate students to take their first steps towards becoming true software developers. The two day event was filled with talks on the latest KDE developments, sessions on how to start contributing, coding sessions, hands-on workshops, and a whole lot more, along with a big serving of the magic ingredient - fun!
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