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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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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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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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No, it’s not the title of a cold war James Bond movie from 1963. It’s Qt in Russia today. I’ve just been at the 9th FRUCT conference in Petrozavodsk, a city that is a 500km train ride east from St. Petersburg. It was an unforgettable trip. Especially to experience the enthusiasm and progress with Qt [...]
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The fourth North American KDE conference has just concluded in San Francisco. Held in co-location with the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, more than 45 free software developers joined the camp, participating at 16 interesting talks. I will highlight some of the interesting topics, including a link to all the recorded talks. Jim Zemlin from Linux [...]
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More than 300 KDE developers and students participated in conf.kde.in – the first dedicated KDE conference ever held in India- in Bangalore from March 9 to 13. The participants learned about contributing to KDE, programming with Qt Quick and lots of other aspects of developing free software. conf.kde.in Group Photo There has been a substantial [...]
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Qt-Apps.org is dedicated to hosting and promoting free Qt applications and they have just announced a free software community competition for porting Qt apps to smartphones. Those two great motivators, phones and cash, are both on offer. Interested? “Take your application from the desktop and bring it into the hand-held world via the Ovi store”, [...]
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I have been a bad blogger. No, I haven’t done anything wrong per se, but I have not blogged nearly as much as I had originally intended. Many times I get interested in a subject, plan on blogging about it, but by the time its written, proof read and ready for publishing its far too [...]
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Just a few hundred kilometres from our Oslo office in the Swedish city of Hagfors sits one of the foremost independent sources of Qt consulting and mentoring, training and add-on products – KDAB. KDAB is a Qt Certified Partner and they’re a nice bunch of guys and girls too. Recently, KDAB and its partners Intevation [...]
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Developer Days isn’t the only thing happening in San Francisco this week – a crew of developers from all over the world have been working at our office in San Francisco at a special Qt code sprint organised by Knut and our community team. The sprint follows a collaboration that was held in Munich where [...]
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This September, Qt partner Cybercom is putting on a free developer day in Helsinki, Finland, focussing on Qt Quick and KDE Plasma technologies. Featuring speakers such as Marco Martin from KDE and Qt’s own Alexis Menard, the day will be a valuable opportunity to learn and discuss Qt Quick and KDE Plasma. Several hours of [...]
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I wanted to make mention of a milestone for a for longtime Qt user, Skolelinux. Today they launched the latest version of their all-encompassing education software solution (Skolelinux 5.0). Skolelinux is a great Qt-based project, and something that has been close to my heart over the nine years it has been in existence. Millions of [...]
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I’m on my way back from the University of California San Diego, where this year’s KDE conference for North America has just taken place. It was the second CampKDE, after the first was held in January 2009. As readers of this blog will likely know, KDE provides stable, powerful and highly useable desktop applications for [...]
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