by Alexandra Leisse on January 22, 2010
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 [...]
by Alexandra Leisse on December 8, 2009
As we mentioned before, we like development sprints. They are a perfect opportunity for a virtual team to meet in person and simply get stuff done. On the weekend of 28th and 29th November, 17 people met in our headquarters in Oslo to discuss further development of KOffice, the release schedule and improvements to internal [...]
by Alexandra Leisse on December 2, 2009
Since we are surrounded by curious developers, we know well how to bribe them best: give them devices! So we sent Marco Martin a lovely multi-touch tablet PC to write demos for us. So he sat down and came up with some cool – surprise! – multi-touch examples based on the KDE Plasma Desktop running [...]
by Aron Kozak on November 17, 2009
Today we start down the ‘open road to Qt code’ – a series of interviews that showcases real Qt users and uncovers their amazing work and ideas. Our featured guest today is Frank Karlitschek, a computer science professional from Reutlingen, Germany who now lives in Stuttgart. Frank has worked for over a decade in management [...]
by Alexandra Leisse on November 11, 2009
Last Friday (yes… again we’re amazingly slow in the Marketing department in Oslo) Matthias Ettrich received the German Federal Cross of Merit for his work on Free Software in general and KDE in particular. We are impressed. There is not much more to say than: Congratulations, Matthias, it’s well deserved.