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Akademy 2012 Sponsors Announced

Thursday, 24 May 2012 | Kallecarl

Akademy, the KDE community summit, is happening in just a few weeks, from the 30 of June to the 6 of July, in Tallinn, Estonia. The Akademy Organizing Team is pleased to welcome this year's Akademy sponsors whose support is critical to the success of the conference. Read More

Announcing the Make Play Live Partner Network

Tuesday, 22 May 2012 | Sebas

In the wake of the announcement of the first ever KDE powered tablet, quite a few interesting things are happening in the background. One of them is the formation of a professional Partner Network for devices such as the Vivaldi tablet. Let's look at this Partner Network in more detail. Read More

Remembering Claire Lotion

Sunday, 20 May 2012 | KDE.org

Claire Lotion

This week we heard about the death of KDE contributor Claire Lotion. People within the KDE Community were shocked and upset by this tragedy.

Claire was a vibrant person with strong ideals. She will be remembered for pursuing these ideals, and as a good friend and colleague. She also thought a lot about how KDE as an open source community could find connections to the real business world. Her energy, fresh look at things, positive mindset and intense commitment inspired many people. So did her dancing.

KDE Commit-Digest for 6th May 2012

Sunday, 13 May 2012 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest, Frederik Gladhorn writes about the current state of development in KDE-Accessibility.

As usual, there is also a change list that includes:

Marble gets the first version of FlightGear position provider
KPhotoAlbum saves the video length in a database; search for the length is also possible
KWebkitParts gets an option that allows the user to disable the internal handling of flash and java applets
KDE-PIM extends the notes class; there are some new properties
Calligra allows dragging of selected text. It works with drag and drop too.
Amarok can write album covers to iPods and USB Mass Storage devices; changes in cover art reading and writing
Solid adds proper support for volumes, storage disks and storage access, which was not working on Windows
Soprano uses non-Qt local socket communication on Unix systems.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

KDE Commit-Digest for 29th April 2012

Tuesday, 8 May 2012 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Dolphin view can be synchronized with terminal location
Konsole has two new profile options for copy & paste mouse behavior
More search options in Dolphin with Nepomuk
Google Sync Bookmarks implemented in rekonq
The order of units is now ensured in the whole Calligra UI
The star rating may be hidden in KPhotoAlbum.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Akademy Community Keynote: Agustín Benito Bethencourt (toscalix)

Sunday, 6 May 2012 | Tcanabrava

Agustín Benito Bethencourt (aka "toscalix") recently joined the KDE e.V. Board of Directors. He will be presenting the KDE Community Keynote at Akademy 2012 in Tallinn.

LaKademy 2012 ‒ Artwork, Localization, Promotion, Development

Sunday, 6 May 2012 | Sandroandrade

LaKademy is over. April 27th to May 1st were days of hard work, meeting old and new friends, having much fun while realizing how far crazy guy imaginations can go. It was a great summit and sprint. Compared to the first (and only one so far) Akademy-BR in 2010, there is clear evidence that we are making progress building a strong and mature KDE community in Latin America. We met in a lovely hostel in Porto Alegre, Brazil and were well taken care of during the event. LaKademy brought together 19 Latin American participants, including developers, translators, designers and promoters. The full report has more information about major LaKademy outcomes related to artwork, localization, promotion, and developing.

Thank you KDE e.V. and Claudia Rauch for your support.

KDE Ships May Updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform

Friday, 4 May 2012 | Sebas

Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. These updates are the third in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.8 series. 4.8.3 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.8 series and are recommended updates for everyone running 4.8.2 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. KDE’s software is already translated into more than 55 languages, with more to come. Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 22nd April 2012

Tuesday, 1 May 2012 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Konsole gains a Web Shortcuts menu that allows searching selected text using any of the search providers; search scrollback is now possible in Konsole KPart
New placement policy in KDEWorkspace: allow "under mouse"; work to include screenlocker into ksmserver
Amarok ships the Free Music Charts by default; Amarok's iPod collection completely rewritten
Digikam supports keyboard shortcuts in the timeline view
GlobalShortcuts Plugin added into ActivityManager in KDE-Base
Work on the rule files in kdemultimedia

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Presentation List for Akademy 2012 Tallinn

Friday, 27 April 2012 | Thiago

The Akademy 2012 Program Committee is proud to present the Akademy 2012 Sessions. Given the broad nature of KDE, the proposals submitted contained a wealth of interesting and valuable topics. From those, 28 proposals were selected that we felt would address the most relevant topics and be deep enough in the areas of most interest to the KDE Community.

Session focus areas

At Akademy 2012, there will be a lot of focus on KDE Frameworks 5, which will adapt the KDE codebase to the Qt 5 release. For that reason, the committee selected a series of talks relating to the Frameworks project and to Qt 5.