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Randa Fundraising Success!

Saturday, 22 September 2012 | Jospoortvliet

As of now, the fund drive for the Randa Sprint has exceeded the goal. That's right, our Community generated over 10,000 € from 287 awesome supporters to make the meeting happen! The Sprint started yesterday evening; the fundraising is staying open for people who want to contribute. Any further donations will go towards future sprints funding. Follow the action in Randa on this twitter stream and here on Google Plus. And look for posts on Planet KDE (Trever said 'hi' already) about the event! There will be a comprehensive report after the Sprint. Read More

Who is Randa for?

Monday, 17 September 2012 | Kallecarl

The Randa sprint starts on September 21st. The fundraising drive has just a few days remaining. Randa is important to the KDE Community, which includes everyone who contributes, participates, supports and, most importantly, uses KDE software. Two key KDE developers—Aaron Seigo and Martin Gräßlin—have shared insights about Randa. Read More

Randa Makes a Difference

Wednesday, 12 September 2012 | Kallecarl

21 year old twins from Greece are two of the dedicated people headed for Randa, Switzerland to work on KDE software. Giorgos and Antonis Tsiapaliokas are working on Plasmate, the KDE Software Development Kit for Plasma Workspaces. Giorgos wrote about his KDE background and what is motivating him to be part of the intensive coding in Randa. Read More

KDE Ships September Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform

Tuesday, 4 September 2012 | Sebas

Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. These updates are the first in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.9 series. 4.9.1 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.9 series and are recommended for everyone running 4.9.0 or earlier versions. The release only contains bugfixes and translation updates so it is a safe and pleasant update for everyone. KDE’s software is already translated into more than 55 languages, with more to come.

Significant bugfixes include improvements to the Kontact Suite, bugfixes in Dolphin and many more corrections and performance improvements all over the place. The changes are listed on Bugzilla, though this list might not contain all improvements since 4.9.0. For a complete list of changes that went into 4.9.1, you can browse the Subversion and Git logs. 4.9.1 also ships a more complete set of translations for many of the 55+ supported languages. To download source code or packages to install go to the 4.9.1 Info Page. If you would like to find out more about the KDE Workspaces and Applications 4.9, please refer to the 4.9 release notes and its earlier versions. Read More

5th release of KDE Telepathy Instant Messaging suite

Monday, 27 August 2012 | Mck182

The KDE Telepathy team is pleased to announce the fifth major release of the new KDE Instant Messaging suite. The immediately available 0.5 version brings polish in many places, better stability, 58 reported bugs fixed and some nice new features too, making the instant messaging experience in KDE Workspaces more pleasant and enjoyable. Special attention was given to the log viewer, which received improvements galore. Read More

Call for Host for Akademy 2013 Still Open

Monday, 27 August 2012 | Sealne

The KDE Community are still looking for proposals to Host Akademy in 2013.

Akademy 2012

The hosting proposal needs a strong team of local volunteers who have an eye for detail that is able to organize and host our annual community summit.

Akademy is a great event to host as it is the gathering of the KDE community, one of the largest and most significant Free Software communities. Hosting Akademy for a week will create marvelous results and give visibility to you as a host and many others way beyond the internal KDE activities. It will also make an impact on your local Free Software community.

KDE Commit Digest for 15th July 2012

Sunday, 26 August 2012 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit Digest:

Re-implemented dropping of files on folders in the Places panel in kdebase
Improved CMake and auto-completion support in KDevelop
Line spacing can be now configured in Konsole
Better equation support in analitza, a library to add mathematical features in KDE-Edu
Image conversion to portable pixmap format (ppm) stream in kipi-plugins
Improvements in LogViewer in Ktp, part of KDE Telepathy
Akonadi now caches prepared queries and re-uses them whenever possible

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Gaurav Joined the Game

Thursday, 23 August 2012 | Jaysonr

In June 2010, KDE e.V. launched the individual supporting membership program, asking people to Join the Game.

There are many reasons to support KDE with a regular financial contribution. It is important to KDE e.V. by helping to create a predictable income. This money is used to support events that accelerate development of KDE software, enhance promotion efforts and help grow the Community. KDE contributors and users are scattered throughout the world and have many different backgrounds, so their reasons for contributing are diverse. Claudia Rauch and Jayson Rowe from the Join the Game Team asked supporting member Gaurav Chaturvedi why he joined the game.

SFLPhone KDE client joins KDE family

Tuesday, 21 August 2012 | Emmanuel_Lepage

The SFLPhone team and Savoir-Faire Linux, a Montreal Open Source consulting company, are pleased to announce the availability of SFLPhone 1.2.0, the first version since the KDE client was moved to KDE infrastructure. Our team is proud of joining the KDE family as part of Playground, and looking forward to being part of Extragear soon. SFLPhone KDE and SFLPhone Qt have been in development for the better part of a decade, aiming to provide the KDE environment with a professional software phone app. Recently, we have been working hard to bring the application to the status of KDE first class citizen. Thank you to the Oxygen and l10n community members for showing such an interest in our application and helping us improve it. Read More

Amarok 2.6 "In Dulci Jubilo" Released

Wednesday, 15 August 2012 | Mamarok

Let's rejoice and celebrate: Amarok 2.6 is here! The Amarok Team is proud to present you the result of their work over the last 7 months. With a reasonable set of new features, we focused this release on bug fixing and improving the overall stability, making this the most stable Amarok release ever. Read More