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One week to Qt Developer Days Munich!

by David Stone on October 17, 2011

This time next week, the Dolce Munich will be buzzing with hundreds of developers, Qt Partners, customers and trolls. Yes, Qt Developer Days Munich 2011 is almost here! In one week, five separate Qt training tracks will be underway, with Qt Partners KDAB, basysKom, e-Gits and Digia helping us deliver the highest quality training for [...]

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Qt Contribution Day at Qt Developer Days

by Knut Yrvin on October 10, 2011

The Qt community team has invited key Qt contributors to a Qt Contribution Day, which will happen in parallel with day one of Qt Developer Days Munich (October 24) and San Francisco (November 29). The main goal of the days is for contributors to adapt and increase contributions to the Qt 5.X branch. In Munich [...]

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We are extremely happy to announce that the Qt Project, the outcome of the open governance work, will go live on October 17th,  2011. This is a week before Qt Developer Days in Munich, and you can be sure to hear more about it there! Since the Open Governance Model discussions started in July 2010, we [...]

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Qt’s positive impact for smartphone users in the form of better looking UIs and great Qt apps in Ovi store is becoming more evident. We see the numbers. We know Qt mobile app download numbers are growing every week. There are now 100+ Million smartphones in people’s hands capable of running Qt applications. After we [...]

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Desktop Summit 2011 – the Free Desktop Invades Berlin

by Alexandra Leisse on August 7, 2011

Early yesterday, organizers opened the second Desktop Summit in Berlin, with almost 1000 free desktop developers gathering at Humboldt University for the annual Gnome and KDE conferences. Two years ago, both communities held their conferences together for the first time, and decided to continue to cooperate again in 2011. Traditionally, we at Qt have had [...]

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Registration is now open for Qt Developer Days 2011! Munich hosts the first event, October 24-26, followed by San Francisco, November 29 – December 1. We also plan for regional events in Beijing and Tokyo in December – more details and cities to come. In the last weeks, positive news about the future of Qt [...]

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Qt Meetups Everywhere

by Alexandra Leisse on June 30, 2011

I’ve always been a great fan of mini-conferences, code sprints or other kinds of gatherings around a certain topic or activity (maybe apart from dugnads but that’s another story). It’s nice to meet others who share our interests and have a chat in relaxed surroundings. There is a lot to learn and maybe even some [...]

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Qt-apps.org dedicate their efforts towards promoting and distributing free software Qt applications. As well as promoting desktop innovation and applications for environments such as KDE, the team recently created the Qtest Mobile App Port Contest, which challenged their community to port their free software Qt apps to mobile platforms. The contest resulted in some high [...]

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The biggest Qt event on the planet is back, and we’re pleased to announce that pre-registration for Qt Developer Days Munich and San Francisco 2011 is now open. Qt Developer Days is the best place to learn, share, and build your Qt expertise and network. It’s the place to speak with and learn from the [...]

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Qt Contributor Summit: Day 1

by Aron Kozak on June 16, 2011

The Qt Contributor Summit is now fully underway and the sparks are already starting to fly. This morning we began our summit with introductions from Alexandra Leisse, followed by Sebastian Nyström providing an overview as to why Nokia was so supportive of Qt and open governance. Following Sebastian, Lars Knoll gave the crowd an overview [...]

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We powered up our vintage ‘download-o-matic’ mathematical robot this morning and made it crunch some numbers on how many people have downloaded our new SDK. After several minutes of mechanical chugging and robot sounds it produced a dot matrix printout showing how many people have downloaded the Qt SDK 1.1 since it launched a few [...]

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Community Sponsorship May 2011

by Knut Yrvin on May 25, 2011

A bit over a week ago we sent four projects that had been submitted to the new community sponsorship program the happy message – “yes, your project got sponsorship”. The projects and communities that were successful are: 1. Akademy-es 2011 in Spain. Akademy-es is a KDE developer event focusing on contributors and users. It is [...]

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To celebrate the MeeGo Conference (May 23-25, San Francisco), 4tiitoo, WeTab, Nokia, Qt and Intel challenge you to develop the best looking, most innovative, awesomely conceived and wonderfully functional Qt-based app for the WeTab. Developers can choose to create apps for five categories: communication, games, entertainment, knowledge and tools. The best app in each category [...]

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