Welcome back again to the KDE Interview series. Last time we spoke with Thiago Macieira, one of the old timers in KDE development. Today we feature Thomas McGuire, the KMail maintainer. Italian readers may prefer the original interview.

By now, you've probably heard that Fedora 12 came out this morning, with a "Moblin Desktop Environment" option. In this interview, Fedora Mini Maintainer Peter Robinson discusses F12's Moblin option today, and what lies ahead for Moblin technology within Fedora.

Yesterday, Stephen Kelly wrote on the dot about the successful KDE PIM sprint. Today, you can read more about him and his role as KJots maintainer in this interview by Giovanni from our Italian KDE community. This continues a trend of recent interviews talking to members of the KDE PIM team - last time we heard from Thomas McGuire of KMail.

Today we have for you an interview with the developers of the Sage mathematics system project. Note that the answers were given as a team. Sage is an open source project that provides an environment very similar to Matlab, Maple and other proprietary well known mathematics systems. It is widely used in academia and scientific research. Version 5.0 was released in mid-May 2012. Enjoy the interview!

Our latest interview is with Amit Saha, responsible for Fedora Scientific, a Fedora based distribution geared towards scientists, students and professionals alike. The distribution is packed with software like GNU Octave, R, Maxima and many more. Give Fedora Scientific a spin! Enjoy the interview!

This time we have for you an interview with Britton Smith and Matthew Turk, lead developers of the yt Project, a toolkit that offers a common language for developing astrophysical simulations and analysis tools. Astronomy professionals and amateurs will find this interview fascinating. Enjoy!

This time we bring you an interview with Michael Hanke and Yaroslav O. Halchenko, leaders of the NeuroDebian project. NeuroDebian is a turnkey platform (using Debian as its foundation) that offers a huge bundle of FLOSS software for neuroscientists. Enjoy the interview!

Forget software politics for a minute -- what does the new Samba licensing mean for the version you're actually running, and for the distribution that packages it for you? Samba maintainer Jeremy Allison explains.

We share with you and interview with scientist, professor and author Hans Petter Langtangen about his well known book A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python. We delve into the story behind the book, future plans and, as always, the importance of free/libre software in science.