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Wrap Up - Desktop Summit 2011 Berlin

Friday, 26 August 2011 | Kallecarl

A big "Thank You!" to all the sponsors, Technologiestiftung Berlin (TSB; in English, Technology Foundation of Berlin), Humboldt University of Berlin, and nearly 800 attendees who gathered from around the world to make a successful Desktop Summit 2011! Read More

KDE in France - the View from RMLL

Wednesday, 24 August 2011 | Stuart Jarvis

Geoffray Levasseur attended RMLL (Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre/Libre Software Meetings) in Strasbourg, France on behalf of KDE, and gathered some useful feedback on our efforts and the views of Linux users in general. Read More

Call for Hosts for Akademy 2012

Monday, 22 August 2011 | Stuart Jarvis

While the heat of the Desktop Summit 2011 is still remaining, we are already looking for a host for Akademy 2012.

Akademy is the annual gathering of the KDE community, one of the largest and most significant in the world of Free and Open Source Software. At Akademy, the KDE community gathers to exchange ideas for development and to discuss other important topics. It is an extraordinary occasion for creativity, enthusiasm, commitment, close working relationships and innovation, so hosting Akademy is a rare opportunity.

Join KDE Italia at CoNAsSL 2011

Friday, 19 August 2011 | Panda84

KDE Italia, the Italian community backing the KDE Italia website and the KDE Italia forum, is pleased to invite you to CoNAsSL 2011, an end-of-summer event aimed at gathering all the Italian associations involved in Free Software. The event will take place on 9, 10 and 11 of September, in a beautiful location: the Tuscan seaside! People attending will be hosted at the same place where the talks and workshops will be held: the "Baia dei Gabbiani" campsite in Scarlino, a town near Follonica (Grosseto). Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 14th August 2011

Friday, 19 August 2011 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

          <ul><li>The refactoring of <a href="http://api.kde.org/4.0-api/kdelibs-apidocs/">kdelibs</a> for Frameworks 5 has started</li>

There have been much work in the Kate printing module, the changes include an attempt to work around Qt printing bugs, fixes in page numbering and others

Konsole can use images as background

Kate support for different syntax format has been extended and now includes also Verilog 2001, Maya MEL and DOS batch files and some other formats have been updated

KMail can search by date

Performance optimization in Digikam, KDE PIM and PublicTransport

Basic keyboard navigation in Icons and Compact View in Dolphin has been implemented

Bug fixes in multiple applications including Calligra, Kate, Network Management.

            <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2011-08-14/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 7th August 2011

Saturday, 13 August 2011 | Mrybczyn

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

Calligra sees work on DOC list styles, improved drag-and-drop in Document Structure Docker and multiple bugfixes; kformula becomes a shape
The split/migration of image and thumbnails databases has started in Digikam
There is a new and improved describeResources method in KDE-Runtime
Kate now highlights GNU LD scripts
There is a new journey search string parser in PublicTransport
Optimizations have been made in route rendering in Marble, and preview rendering in KDE-Base
Umbrello receives work on the new code importing wizard
The way Konsole queries for the PTY size is changed, this should fix multiple problems with terminal dimensions
Bugfixes in Kate, Amarok, Phonon, Network Management.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

Joining the Game at the Desktop Summit

Thursday, 11 August 2011 | Stuart Jarvis

Jonathan Kolberg

Desktop Summit 2011 continues. On Tuesday, GNOME and KDE had their annual meetings, with KDE e.V. managing to finish in time for lunch. However, many members came back after lunch to continue discussion in a BoF about challenges and opportunities for KDE. Over the past few days, the University has been busy with four tracks of BoFs, workshops and meetings - enough to keep most attendees checking their schedules and the building maps.

One particular highlight of the past few days was the Intel AppUp workshop, in which conference attendees who had preregistered were able to learn about the AppUp program, including App stores and development tools to optimize and distribute applications for Windows and MeeGo. The Intel team explained that Intel AppUp is the only large online Appstore system that is really friendly to distributing free software. For example, if the application developer chooses GPL, they are prompted to upload source code which can then be automatically distributed along with the applications binary. As a bonus, Intel loaned each of the workshop attendees a developer tablet running MeeGo to enable easy testing of applications and aid development.

Toasters and Pants at Day Three of Desktop Summit 2011

Tuesday, 9 August 2011 | Kallecarl

The third and final 'traditional' conference day began with Mirko Boehm, Claudia Rauch, Stormy Peters, Karen Sandler and Cornelius Schumacher meeting with members of the Berlin City authorities. The city officials wanted to get acquainted with the free and open source leaders involved in the Desktop Summit, because open technology is important to the local government (more below). Read More

Keynotes and Sandals - Day Two at Desktop Summit 2011

Monday, 8 August 2011 | Stuart Jarvis

Boudewijn Rempt shows off Krita

For the second full day at the Desktop Summit, the organizers played a little trick on us by starting talks at 9:00 a.m. Those who were awake enough after the dinners and chat of the previous night were treated to talks on Calligra (the KDE creativity and productivity suite), suggestions about blending the web and the desktop, color management and the build process for GNOME. Those who were still in bed will have to wait for the videos and slides to be posted online in the next few days.

The hallways and courtyard were again busy with small, lively discussions. As the morning went on the attendance at talks increased noticeably. Sunday was also the day of the press conference, where key figures from GNOME, KDE and the cross-community organizing team met with the press to answer their questions about the event and the future of free software.

KDE Having Fun at Desktop Summit 2011

Sunday, 7 August 2011 | Stuart Jarvis

Friday, 5 August - Preparations for a Big Event

Friday, 10:00, August 5, 2011. A big group of people was standing a bit lost in the cloakroom of the Humboldt University at Unter den Linden, Berlin. They were the volunteers for the Desktop Summit 2011 - but without guidance and leadership, they were just nervously looking around and talking to each other.