Plasma/Active/Info

Contact

Contacting the Plasma Active team is easy:

• IRC: #active on irc.freenode.net
• Mailing list: [email protected] (Subscription page)
• Forum: Plasma Active - KDE Community Forums
• Personal: Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]> - Marco Martin <[email protected]>

FAQ

We have created a Beginner's FAQ which will be continually updated as new questions arise and are answered.

Press Clippings

Release One

This is what the media are saying about Plasma Active. Don't see your site here? Then you're not reporting on how the Free Desktop crawled out of the seas and gambolled off onto the boundless plains of mobility.

• Plasma Active One veröffentlicht (Der Standard, 20111010)
• KDE pitches Plasma Active against Android (Rethink Wireless, 20111011)
• Plasma Active für Tablets veröffentlicht (golem.de, 20111010)
• KDE Team veroeffentlicht Tablet Oberflaeche Plasma Active (heise online open source, amu, 20111010)
• Plasma Active (Chris Duckett, 20111010)
• KDE Umgebung fuer Tablets (Linux Community, Ulrich Bantle, 20111010)
• Plasma Active One KDEs Antwort auf den Tablet Boom (Linux Magazin, Ulrich Bantle, 20111010)
• KDE takes on Android, Apple's iOS on smartphones and tablets (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols & Paula Rooney, 20111009)

pre-Release

• New KDE project aims at tablets, mixed UIs (Rodney Gedda, cio.com.au 20110412)
• KDE's New Project for Portable Devices (Susan Linton, ostatic.com 20110411)
• Plasma Active für Touchscreens (jt, golem.de 20110412)
• Testing Plasma Active (Susan Linton, ostatic.com 20110412)
• KDE запускает проект Plasma Active для различных устройств (Дмитрий Шурупов, nixp.ru, 20110412)
• KDE looks beyond desktops and notebooks with Plasma Active (Lee, liliputing.com 20110413)
• New KDE Project Aims at Tablets, Mixed UIs (Thom Holwerda, OSNews 20110413)
• Plasma Active KDE project for mobiles and more (ehe, The H, 20110414)
• Contour for MeeGo (ash, meegoexperts.com, 20110414)
• Se KDEs projekt som utmanar Apples Ipad (Niklas Andersson, idg.se, 20110414)
• KDE推出移动设备领域新项目Plasma Active (lupaworld.com, 20110414)
• Contour brings a context-sensitive interface to KDE Plasma Active (Lee, liliputing.com 20110415)
• Plasma Active - nowy interfejs twórców KDE (lucas__, dobreprogramy.pl, 20110515)
• Video Demo of Contour on Plasma Active – MeeGo at DeskTop Summit (MeegoExperts, 9 Aug 2011)
• basysKom – More Hands On – Contour on Plasma Active (MeegoExperts, 11 Aug 2011)
• Running Plasma active desktop on top of Nokia N900 Community Edition (MeegoExperts, 31 Aug 2011)
• Plasma Active will mit iOS und Android gleichziehen (Golem.de, 8 Aug 2011)
• Video: Neuerungen in Plasma Active - kurzes Hands-on (Golem.de, 8 Aug 2011)

Blogs

Blogs and Movies

Here for the first time and hungry for more? See how the project is unfolding in the blogosphere:

October

• Plasma Active Perspectives: The App Story (Sebastian Kügler, 20111011)
• Humanizing metal and electrons (Marco Martin, 20111009)

August

• Installing Plasma Active on the ExoPC (WeTab) Blog (Sebastian Kügler, 20110816)
• Plasma Active on OpenGL-ES Blog (Sebastian Kügler, 20110819)

June

• Plasma Active Updates Blog (Sebastian Kügler, 20110622)

April

• Plasma Active, A Desirable UX Blog (Sebastian Kügler 20110409)
• Demo Movie (Marco Martin)
• Demo Movie showing Plasma Active and apps (Sebastian Kügler)
• Reactivate Blog (Marco Martin 20110409)
• Older Demo Movie (Marco Martin )
• Active Routes Blog (Aaron Seigo 20110410)
• Plasma Active: Quick! Blog (Aaron Seigo 2010411)
• Contour joins the Plasma Active track Blog (Eva Brucherseifer 20110411)
• Welcome Contour Blog (Marco Martin 20110411)
• Plasma Quick Redux Blog (Aaron Seigo 20110412)
• Plasma Active: Contour Blog (Aaron Seigo 20110412)
• Plasma Active: Active Apps Blog (Aaron Seigo 20110413)
• Plasma Active: Operating Systems Blog (Aaron Seigo 20110414)
• Plasma Active: Vendor Interaction Blog (Aaron Seigo 20110415)
• plasma active: designing flexible and adaptive user interfaces Blog (Sebastian Kügler 20110417)
• Plasma Active: A Box of Crayons Blog (Sebastian Kügler 20110417)

March

• Towards a Declarative Plasma Blog (Marco Martin 20110320)
• Build Device Scalable User Interfaces Blog (Marco Martin 20110328)