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Tallinn welcomes Akademy

Sunday, 1 July 2012 | Jospoortvliet

Community Keynote
Agustín Benito Bethencourt

Yesterday, nearly 300 hackers grabbed their badges at the Estonian IT College in Tallinn and launched Akademy 2012. Mathias Klang's keynote, Freedom of Expression, got things going quickly with his urgent call to action for those who stand for freedom, which often disappears gradually and in a slow creep.

Some people kicked off the conference on Friday night at the pre-registration party sponsored by Intel or even arrived earlier in the week to explore Tallinn and sample Estonia's beers. During the first day of Akademy, there were sessions on release management, Plasma Active, and the future of KDE and Qt technologies.

Call For Host Akademy 2013

Thursday, 28 June 2012 | Nightrose

The KDE Community is looking for a host for Akademy 2013.

Akademy is the annual gathering of the KDE Community, one of the largest in the world of Free and Open Source Software. At Akademy, KDE people gather to exchange ideas for development, plan for the future, and discuss other important issues. It is an extraordinary occasion for creativity, enthusiasm, commitment, close working relationships and innovation.

KDE Announces 4.9 RC1

Wednesday, 27 June 2012 | Kallecarl

Today KDE released the first Release Candidate for the 4.9 versions of Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is still on fixing bugs and further polishing new and old functionality. Highlights of 4.9 include: Read More

KDE e.V. Quarterly Report for Q1 2012

Tuesday, 26 June 2012 | Kallecarl

The KDE e.V. report for the first quarter of 2012 has been published. It gives an overview of the activities KDE e.V. supported during that time, including various sprints, conferences and projects. It also has a feature article by Stuart Jarvis about the ALERT Project, an initiative to improve bug resolution processes in Open Source development teams. Read More

Digia: Akademy Sponsor & KDE e.V. Supporting Member

Monday, 25 June 2012 | Tcanabrava

Tuukka Turunen - Digia Director of R&D

Digia is a Silver Sponsor of Akademy 2012 Tallinn. They are also a new supporting member of KDE e.V. Digia and KDE have a close partnership based on a common interest and commitment to Qt. Like many people in the KDE Community, I had some questions about Digia, their plans for Qt and their views of KDE. The interview with Tuukka Turunen follows. Tomaz: When Digia acquired the Qt commercial licensing and services business from Nokia, many people wanted to know more. Please tell us about Digia and how you came to be a Qt guardian.

Tuukka: At Digia, we see and understand the potential of Qt as the best cross-platform development framework. We applaud its history and foundation from the Trolltech days where dedicated Trolls and Qt fans created a framework that hobbyists, developers and large corporations today use to drive the most innovative software available. It was the strength of the Qt community and its unmatched technology that in 2011 interested Digia in taking Qt forward by being its exclusive commercial licensor.

KDE Commit-Digest for 3 June 2012

Monday, 18 June 2012 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Android native look&feel plugin added to android-qt
New assistant for new classes from templates in KDevelop
Fancy bookmarking in rekonq
Experimental rgbaf32 colorspace in the lcms color engine, all missing chart marker types implemented in Calligra
Rewrite the Topic tab in the Channel Options dialog in Konversation
GSoC work in KStars and Calligra
Season of KDE work in Marble.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Akademy 2012 Special Events

Wednesday, 13 June 2012 | Kallecarl

Akademy is more than inspiring talks. It's also a place to plan, collaborate and get a lot of work done in BoFs and workshops.

This year, we have two special workshops that you won't want to miss. These events alone make Akademy 2012 well worth attending. To attend please register for free.

KDE Announces 4.9 Beta2

Wednesday, 13 June 2012 | Sebas

Today KDE released the second beta for its renewed Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing new and old functionality. Highlights of 4.9 will include the following and more: Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 27th May 2012

Tuesday, 12 June 2012 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Okular saves annotations locally
Delayed search in Calligra allows the users to type the whole word; adding image lists possible; brush rotation is absolute to canvas rotation
Amarok is now capable of transcoding music when copying it to USB Mass Storage devices
Exponential notation supported in Kst
Play Previous and Play Next and other updates in miniplayer
Further preparations for drag-and-drop support in the Places Panel in Dolphin
Refactoring work in Kdenlive
GSoC work in Cantor.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Testing Team Progress

Tuesday, 12 June 2012 | Amahfouf

The KDE Testing Team will continue its efforts with 4.9 Beta 2. The testing intensive started with KDE 4.9 Beta 1 last week; 83 bug reports were opened or confirmed, 29 of which are already closed, the bugs having been fixed. Some bugs were even corrected without anyone opening a bug report. Newcomers joined the team and are doing a great job. A big thank you! Read More