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Google Summer of Code Achievements - Chapter Two

Tuesday, 27 September 2011 | Vivek

Over the past few months, members of the KDE community mentored students as a part of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC). In this annual program, students receive a stipend to write code for a Free Software project, mentored by someone from the project. With KDE participating for the seventh time, students worked on many KDE projects, some of which are already being included in KDE releases. 47 of 51 projects were finished successfully this year. This is the second article featuring students’ achievements in the Google Summer of Code program. Read More

Google Summer of Code Achievements - Chapter One

Monday, 26 September 2011 | Vivek

Over the past few months, members of the KDE community mentored students as a part of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC). In this annual program, students receive a stipend to write code for a Free Software project, mentored by someone from the project. With KDE participating for the seventh time, students worked on many KDE projects, some of which are already being included in KDE releases. 47 of 51 projects were finished successfully this year. This is the first article featuring students’ achievements in the Google Summer of Code program. Read More

Nepomuk Stability and Performance

Wednesday, 21 September 2011 | Kallecarl

Over at his blog, Sebastian Trüg is raising money for Nepomuk. Short version of this story--please give what you can to an important KDE project and a valuable KDE contributor. Background and details below. [update: The fundraiser is done. Thanks to everyone for your support.] Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 11th September 2011

Saturday, 17 September 2011 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Kexi receives many new features in the upcoming Calligra 2.4 release such as Kexi Mobile, AutoForms and a new startup view which is integrated with the file menu
The upcoming release of Kexi will also feature the web form widget, bringing the work of Season of KDE student Shreya Pandit upstream
Many performance optimizations are made to KDevelop and the KDevPlatform
Network Management now supports PPPoE
Kubeplayer works on Plasma Active now
Marble gets a GPS speed render plugin to provide information on speed, direction, altitude and precision
K3b's settings located in System Settings are moved to K3b itself
The PublicTransport applet gets support for importing the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)
The Telepathy Contact list gains support for basic drag and drop
Image title support is added to Digikam
Replace in files function is available in Kate
Bugfixes to Calligra, Network Management and KDE PIM

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KDE e.V. Report for Second Quarter 2011

Friday, 16 September 2011 | Kallecarl

KDE e.V., the non-profit organization that supports the KDE community in legal and financial matters, has published its report for the second quarter of 2011 (pdf). The report introduces the KDE e.V. administrative staff, and has information about the various contributor sprints and events that KDE members attended in the second quarter of 2011.
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KDE Commit-Digest for 4th September 2011

Monday, 12 September 2011 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Much work done on Plasma/Active, including homescreen loading, AppletContainer and activity switching optimization.
Dolphin gets a Bazaar version control plugin.
Kst now supports scripting.
Line modification system added in Kate.
Skrooge gets a copy menu for cells.
Owncloud has an initial implementation of password reset and calendar updates.
There are optimizations in Public Transport and Calligra.
Network Management sorts connections by type and then by activation state.
libqapt supports APT MultiArch.
Calligra gets bugfixes, mostly in support of file formats.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Google Summer of Code & Season of KDE

Saturday, 10 September 2011 | Kallecarl

How awesome are the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Season of KDE (SoK) programs? According to Daniel Moctezuma, "All the work done by students in GSoC/SoK will have an impact in Free Software and the world." Daniel is one of the 2011 GSoC students. Lydia Pintscher is the main administrator of these programs for KDE. She made the following report. Read More

KDE Ships September Updates

Wednesday, 7 September 2011 | 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 4.7 series. 4.7.1 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.7 series and are recommended updates for everyone running 4.7.0 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. To download source code or packages to install go to the 4.7.1 Info Page. The changelog and Bugzilla list more, but not all improvements since 4.7.0. Note that these changelogs are incomplete. For a complete list of changes that went into 4.7.1, you can browse the Subversion and Git logs. 4.7.1 also ships a more complete set of translations for many of the 55+ supported languages. To find out more about the KDE Workspace and Applications 4.7, please refer to the 4.7.0 release notes and its earlier versions. Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 28th August 2011

Friday, 2 September 2011 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Digikam now offers deferred scanning of files
KStars has seen work in the Print Wizard, optimization of sky drawing and bugfixes
KNewstuff3 supports GnuPG2
In Calligra, among other improvements, SVG support has been added to the flake library
Rekonq can restore tab history when restoring tabs/sessions
There are various improvements around the popup icon in Public Transport
Performance optimizations have taken place in Plasma, KWin and KDEPIM
There are multiple updates in different areas of ownCloud
Some of the GSoC contributions have been merged, including the improvement of user experience in Kiten.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

KDE Commit-Digest for 21st August 2011

Friday, 26 August 2011 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest, Shaun Reich comments on his work to port KDM to Plasma. In addition, the change list for this week includes:

         <ul><li>Drag and drop for images and URLs is implemented in <a href="http://www.calligra-suite.org/">Calligra</a> Stage and Flow.</li>
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