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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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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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Late last year, qt-apps.org announced a competition challenging people to port their existing free software Qt apps to Symbian and MeeGo. There was a prize of 10,000 Euros for the best app submitted to the Ovi store, and entries that were submitted before December 31 were eligible for one of five early bird prizes.
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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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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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Every summer, a growing number of KDE contributors meet for their annual conference – Akademy. This year everybody traveled to Tampere in Finland for what was an excellently organized event. Kudos to all the volunteers and the team from COSS! For us, Akademy is a major opportunity to meet highly skilled Qt users. We love [...]
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We are pleased to announce that Qt and Nokia’s MeeGo Devices group have agreed to take up joint platinum sponsorship of Akademy 2010, the annual world summit of the KDE community. The decision extends a relationship between Qt and KDE events that dates back to the very first open KDE event, Kastle 2003. Akademy 2010 [...]
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In January I attended the 2nd CampKDE in San Diego. All presentations have been recorded and I promised to keep you updated on the matter. The videos are now available to all who didn’t have the chance to attend in public. Enjoy the show!
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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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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 [...]
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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.
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