The Akademy 2013 Program Committee is proud to present the Akademy 2013 Presentation Schedule. Reflecting the scope of KDE, the schedule includes a wealth of interesting, timely and valuable topics. From the proposals submitted, 32 were selected to address currently relevant topics of most interest to the KDE Community.
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Document Freedom Day 2013 Report
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Thanks to the hard work of local groups around the world, Document Freedom Day 2013 was larger than ever, with 59 events in 30 countries. Several of these were celebrating for the first time, including Niger, Indonesia, and the United States.
Read more »LinuxDevices reopens as LinuxGizmos
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LinuxDevices shut down about a year ago. It has reopened as LinuxGizmos. There's no link from the old site to the new one. The site coversthe use of embedded systems and mobile devices and applications.
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DPL election is over, congratulations Lucas Nussbaum!
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The Debian Project Leader election has concluded and the winner is Lucas Nussbaum. Of a total of 988 developers, 390 developers voted using the Condorcet method.
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Google forks WebKit: Blink, A rendering engine for the Chromium project
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WebKit is a lightweight yet powerful rendering engine that emerged out of KHTML in 2001. Its flexibility, performance and thoughtful design made it the obvious choice for Chromium's rendering engine back when we started. Thanks to the hard work by all in the community, WebKit has thrived and kept pace with the web platform’s growing capabilities since then.
Read more »Here’s to 15 Years of a Better Web - Firefox celebrates 15th birthday
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This week we’re celebrating Mozilla’s 15th anniversary. How can you help us commemorate 15 years of a better Web?
Read more »Wayland fork Northwood initiator banned from Wayland mailling list
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Scott Moreau, the developer of the Wayland fork Northwood has been banned from the Wayland developers e-mail list .
Read more »Yorba is crowdfunding development on Geary
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The Yorba Foundation wants to raise money for the development of its Geary email client and has started a crowdfunding campaign as part of that effort.
Read more »KDE joins the Outreach Program for Women
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KDE will – for the first time this year – participate in the “Outreach Program for Women”. This was originally started by GNOME, but has also other participating organisations like Wikimedia, Mozilla, Fedora and others.
Read more »Mentoring Organization Applications Now Being Accepted for Google Summer of Code 2013!
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Interested in finding bright, enthusiastic new contributors to your open source project? Apply to be a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code program! We are excited to announce the organization application period is now open.
Read more »Preview of Qt 5 for Android
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Qt integrated Qt 5 for Android into the “dev” branch, meaning that it will become part of Qt 5.1 when it is released.
Read more »FSFE Newsletter - March 2013
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In this issue: Brussels flooded with Free Software activists, Why we love Free Software, Something completely different, Get active: Organise an event for Document Freedom Day 2013
Read more »Registration opens for LibrePlanet 2013: "commit change", a conference on software & social justice!
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LibrePlanet is a yearly conference where the global free software community comes together to learn from each other, face challenges and welcome newcomers. This year, the conference focuses on bringing together the diverse voices that have a stake in free software, from software developers to activists, academics to computer users.
Read more »BSDCan 2013 schedule, May 15-18
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The schedule has been posted for BSDCan, a technical BSD conference held in Ottawa, Canada. This year it is on 17-18 May 2013 (Fri/Sat) at University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of Tutorials on 15-16 May 2013 (Wed/Thu).
Read more »KDE Akademy and Qt Contributor Summit Join Forces
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In July 2013, Akademy — the KDE community summit — will host the Qt Contributor Summit (QtCS) in Bilbao, Spain. QtCS is THE gathering of the Qt Project contributor community. It will take place July 15th and 16th in the middle of the KDE Akademy conference week (13-19 July). By co-hosting, KDE and the Qt Project will increase their existing collaboration even further.
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