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conf.KDE.in: First KDE Conference in India

Tuesday, 28 December 2010 | Shaan7

The Indian KDE community will organize its first conference at Bengaluru in March 2011. The 5 day event will bring together KDE contributors, Qt developers, users and FOSS enthusiasts.

We realise that there are not many KDE/Qt related events that are accessible to Indians. FOSS conferences or meetings are an excellent way to show people the technology first hand and ways to contribute to it. We not only dazzle them with the world of KDE, but show them first hand how simple it is to get involved and make a difference. This is our motivation for conducting this event.

4.6 RC 1 Available, KDE PIM Delayed

Thursday, 23 December 2010 | Sebas

Right before Christmas, KDE has published the first candidate for the upcoming release of KDE Platform, Plasma and Applications 4.6. The focus at this stage is on fixing bugs and completing translations and artwork. As such, the rework of the Oxygen icon set is nearing completion, many bugs reported by testers in recent weeks have been fixed and stabilization is still in full swing. Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 21st November 2010

Thursday, 23 December 2010 | Dannya

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

          <ul><li>Start of a <a href="http://plasma.kde.org/">Plasma</a>-based "Welcome Screen" for applications</li>

Support for searching events and todos by date/range in the Events Plasma Runner, and the start of a first Plasmoid ("BusyWidget") written in QML

More work on KMail Mobile, including a change to make it start twice as fast

Start of work to give Okteta a mobile interface

Support for the AqBanking5 standard (with dropped support for AqBanking4) in KMyMoney

Various small features in Skrooge and Muon Package Manager

Work on supporting NetCDF metadata in Kst

Scribo service for NEPOMUK which allows access to NLP functionality, useful for non-C++/KDE apps

KTorrent and libktorrent move to Git.

            <a href="http://commit-digest.org/issues/2010-11-21/">Read the rest of the Digest here</a>.
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KDE e.V. Joins Open Invention Network

Tuesday, 21 December 2010 | Aseigo

KDE e.V. is pleased to announce that we have joined the Open Invention Network community as a licensee.

Open Invention Network was founded as a way to help defend the Linux ecosystem, and by extension much of the Free and Open Source software world, from the risks associated with software patents. Patents owned by Open Invention Network are available royalty-free to any company, institution or individual that agrees not to assert its patents against the Linux System, creating an umbrella of protection for its members.

Introducing K16 and the Future of KDE

Monday, 20 December 2010 | FrankKarlitschek

Where will KDE be in five years? To answer this question, we plan to bring together visionaries, strategists, planners, out-of-the-box-thinkers, realists, dreamers, doers, creators, leaders, coders from the KDE community and everybody else who is interested in discussing the future of KDE and picturing what it will be. Read More

KDE/Google Summer of Code 2010 (Part 2 of 2)

Sunday, 19 December 2010 | Kallecarl

For the sixth time, KDE has mentored students as part of the Google Summer of Code program. The students get to take their first steps writing code for a Free Software project with a mentor by their side for a summer. Once again our students have worked on exciting projects that you will be able to see in the next releases - many will even be part of the 4.6 releases. Nearly all of the 50 projects were finished successfully this year. This is the second of two articles about what the GSoC students accomplished. Read More

KDE/Google Summer of Code 2010 (Part 1 of 2)

Tuesday, 14 December 2010 | Nightrose

For the sixth time, KDE has mentored students as part of the Google Summer of Code program. The students get to take their first steps writing code for a Free Software project with a mentor by their side for a summer. Once again our students have worked on exciting projects that you will be able to see in the next releases - many will even be part of the 4.6 releases. Forty-six and a half of our fifty projects were finished successfully this year (the half refers to one student who was offered an internship after the midterm evaluation). This is the first of two articles looking at what the students achieved: Read More

KDE Commit-Digest for 14th November 2010

Monday, 13 December 2010 | Dannya

In the latest KDE Commit-Digest:

Solid switches to the new KDE Power Management System Policy Agent
"Atmosphere" and other layers, and more work on routing instrunctions in Marble
Demo Mode in Kajongg
Full KIPI support (print, email, etc of images) added to KSnapshot
An "Export" button added to Gwenview, providing quick access to the KIPI export plugins
Various improvements in Kooka
Support for hiding menu icons in KDE applications
Plugin loading support added to KNotify
Support for Powerdevil notifications when a battery's storage ability falls below 50%, or the battery has been recalled from the vendor
Support for Windows 7-like launchers in the Tasks Plasmoid
ACL viewing/editing implemented in KMail Mobile
Smb4K now mounts and unmounts shares via a KAuth implementation
Telepathy tubes support in KRFB
NEPOMUKBackupSync, with configuration UI enables automatic and manual backup and syncing of the Nepomuk respository
Improved version of the Locale KControl module
SecurityOrigin class of WebCore (useful for guarding against cross-site scripting attacks) imported into KHTML
KBugBuster moved to unmaintained/tags/4
KPlayer and Kile move to git.kde.org.

Read the rest of the Digest here.

KDE e.V. Publishes Its Report for Third Quarter 2010

Saturday, 11 December 2010 | Oriol

KDE e.V Third Quarter Report

KDE e.V., the non-profit organization that supports the KDE community in legal and financial matters, has just published its report for the third quarter of 2010. The report highlights the history and current activities of KDE's Marketing Working Group and summarizes the results to date of KDE's individual supporting membership campaign 'Join the Game'. It also reviews the different contributor sprints and events that KDE members have attended in the last three months. These included the KDE Imaging Sprint that took place in Aix-en-Provence (France) in late August and Akademy 2010, KDE's yearly flagship conference that was held in Tampere, Finland, with much success in early July. The report ends by introducing the new KDE e.V. members and by presenting a brief system administration report and an overview of KDE e.V.'s finances.

Besides all its useful information, this report also features a brand new and beautiful design courtesy of KDE contributors Eugene Trounev and Rob Oakes. User-contributed artwork and images are also featured throughout, making this Quarterly Report a real celebration of community efforts. Check it out!

How to Become a KDE Developer

Friday, 10 December 2010 | Oriol

Antonis Tsiapaliokas

In late 2009, Antonis Tsiapaliokas had his first contact with Linux. At that time, he had just started learning the C programming language and he was mostly unfamiliar with KDE software. Less than two years later, he just made his first code contributions to KDE software.

Seasoned KDE developer Tomaz Canabrava, who helped Antonis develop his programming skills, asked him why he chose to contribute to KDE. Read on to find out more on how Antonis became a KDE developer.