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We would like to remind you that both @Krita and @kdenlive are currently running fundraisers:
#Krita :
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KDE is in Dornbirn today! Meet up with us at our booth at the 2024 edition of Linux Day - Austria 🇦🇹!
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KDE is in Dornbirn today! Meet up with us at our booth at the 2024 edition of Linux Day - Austria 🇦🇹!
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We have archived the Dot -- because we have something better now
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We have archived the Dot -- because we have something better now
The Dot has served the KDE Community well as a the source of news for all our projects and contributors.
But, as KDE has grown, the amount of news has grown with us, to the point it has become impractical to filter it all through one source.
Check out our solution:
https://dot.kde.org/2024/09/25/dot-closed-long-live-kde-planet
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Curious to know what is happening with current KDE Goals? From workboards to chatrooms, get all the updates and join the discussion! Explore how we're shaping the future at https://kde.org/goals/
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Keep up with the exciting news coming out of the KDE apps projects with "This Week in KDE Apps"!
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Keep up with the exciting news coming out of the KDE apps projects with "This Week in KDE Apps"!
In this issue: NeoChat emojis, Itinerary seats, Gwenview speedups and Android support tweaks, among other things.
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/09/16/this-week-in-kde-apps/
Note that this week it is on Monday, but we will be posting about all KDE app news on Sunday from now on.
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Plasma 6.2 Beta has been released... Beta testers assemble 🦸♀️!
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Plasma 6.2 Beta has been released... Beta testers assemble 🦸♀️!
Please grab it, test it, submit bug reports. Final release will be on the 8th of October.
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KDE's Annual report for the year 2023 is out.
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KDE's Annual report for the year 2023 is out.
Everything you wanted to know about the things we did last year is in this report: the funds we raised, how we spent them, the sprints and events we attended, the projects we took on, the milestones we hit, and much, much more.
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The Personal Information Management team release their July and August report
In this report find out how the Itinerary travel assistant will not only help you find your train, but also your seat; what's being done to make KMail's code leaner and cleaner; why changes are being made to the way the project's progress is tracked (plus how you can contribute); and more.
https://kontact.kde.org/blog/2024/2024-09-01-july-august-2024/
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KDE is at the 21st edition of LUDOVIA in Ax-Les-Thermes, Ariège Pyrenees, France. Visit our booth from August 26-28 to explore KDE's digital technology for your classroom.
You can register on-site. See you there!
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Check out the #pilet, SoulsCircuit's very cool retro-futuristic handheld tablet/console.
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Check out the #pilet, SoulsCircuit's very cool retro-futuristic handheld tablet/console.
Designed with Free Software, the pilet runs #Plasma and a full range of KDE software.
More at
https://soulscircuit.com/pilet
Follow SoulCircuit and the progress of the piet here:
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KDE Gear ⚙️ 24.08 -- Akademy Edition has been released.
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KDE Gear ⚙️ 24.08 -- Akademy Edition has been released.
This release brings new features to the powerful Dolphin file explorer and manager, the Kdenlive video editor, KDE's web browser Falkon, and much more.
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.08.0/
And don't miss the future of KDE and sign up for #Akademy2024 today. Only 2 weeks left!
Apple had to learn the hard way: Under the DMA (thanks @EUCommission !) they were forced to give users a choice regarding the default search engine and browser on their systems.
What are we going to do about Microsoft misleading users?
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1689
So we also managed to avoid having all those machines ending up in landfills, polluting the soil and waterways because providers of proprietary OSes only want you to buy new stuff and ignore the impact on the environment.
https://floss.social/@be4foss/111980254502881355
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KDE provided the software that allowed to recover machines that had been obsoleted by the successive updates from Microsoft Windows, and this made possible for the CACD to carry out the program.
https://cacd.nationbuilder.com/programs_at_cacd
We provided support and advice so that the teens could familiarise themselves with open source software, saving them from being trapped in the proprietary cycle of buy new hardware, update, be forced to buy new hardware, update, rinse and repeat.
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We are also nearing completion of the Supporting Members campaign. Only 16 more to go!:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
We are completely floored by your generosity, and thank you for helping us keep KDE running and producing free software for the world.
Remember can help us bring you more and better Free Software by becoming a supporting member:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
Or donating to KDE:
IMPORTANT
Please note that release candidates, although often called "sneak peeks", are still work in progress and must be installed and used with extreme care. They will contain bugs, some of which may still be critical. Do not use this software in production environments. Use for testing only.
... But many people are confirming that the current version is already very mature and quite stable. Ultimately it is your choice. Use at your own risk -- and report all those bugs to
The final release is only 10 weeks away!
Neon Unstable Edition is already ready with the updates,
but other unstable repositories of other distros will soon be available too. Look out for openSUSE, Arch, Kubuntu, Fedora, and more.
WARNING: This is #betasoftware, lots of things are untested and can fail. We strongly recommend you do NOT use it in a production environments. The Beta release should only be used for testing and reporting bugs.
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Note that due to unforeseen circumstances, we have been unable to ship the new wallpaper, "Reef", with this version of Plasma. However, a new wallpaper will be coming soon in the next 6.2 version of Plasma.
If you can't wait, you can download "Reef" from here:
https://cdn.kde.org/promo/Announcements/Plasma/6.1/Reef.png