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• Plasma 6 - RC 2 is landing on Wednesday. Get ready to Ask Us Anything! Lemmy and Reddit

Help us reach 1000 members before Plasma 6 Release Day! Our Drive for Supporters is still open!

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Plasma 6 Release Candidate 2 is just a week away!

• We smashed it 💥! We reached (and surpassed) our goal of 650 Supporting Members! But we aren't done yet...

• Season of KDE, KDE's mentorship program for new contributors, is kicking off with 18 new projects.

• And the Winnner of the Plasma 6 Wallpaper Competition is... “Sun/Comet”! 🏆

• Plasma 6 Release Candidate 1 has landed. Remember can help us bring you more and better Free Software by becoming a supporting memberOr donating to KDE

• Happy Holidays everyone! And thanks for all the bugs🪲🪲🎄!

• Happy Holidays everyone! And thanks for all your support💰🎅🏽!

• You can also help us reach our supporting membership goal! We only need 20 more sign-ups to reach our first goal. If you would prefer a one-off donation or more options

• ... But many people are confirming that the current version is already very mature and quite stable.

• Plasma 6 Beta 2 released! We are nearly there, but more testing needed.

• conf.kde.in 2024 coorganized with CoFSUG is happening from 2-4 February at COEP Technological University, Pune.

• Plasma and apps for mobile also getting overhauled for 6. And then there are all the #apps that work both on Linux and #Android (and often Windows and macOS too). Connect, Itinerary, NeoChat, Kasts, etc., as Volker Krause tells us, are being updated for other platforms. Remember you can help #support KDE by becoming a Supporting Member [Or https://kde.org/community/donations/ by #donating to our community]

• Calling all KDE users and new contributors: Season of KDE has started! For more details and links you need, please read this very carefully

• Pay your own tribute to a desktop that once ruled the 90s Unix world with Commonality, the fourth and final (for now) entry in Off-Theme

• Give your desktop a strikingly lustrous look with Shades of Purple, the Off-Theme series.

• Draw some inspiration for your desktop with the boldly monochromatic Graphite, the global theme in the Off-Theme series.

• One of these 6 beauties will become the wallpaper for Plasma 6. Want to contribute to KDE? Become a Supporting Member or donate to our community

• Embrace the #GivingTuesday spirit and support #Plasma6!

• Google Summer of Code 2023 is over, but our contributors' work lives on!

• Send us your wallpaper design and make Plasma 6 look awesome!

• The alpha versions of Plasma 6, Gear 24.02 and Frameworks 6 are now available. Remember: you too can contribute to KDE by becoming a Supporting Member

• We reached 50% of our goal 🎉!

• We are nearing the halfway mark on our #Plasma6 drive to get 500 Supporting Members!

• The new KDE PIM report is out!

• Check out Off-Theme, a series that showcases creative global themes to spice up the look and feel of your Plasma desktop.

• Krita artist and contributor, David Revoy, gets massive exhibition in mall

• Come and visit the KDE booth at the FOSSCOMM in Heraklion!

• Krita 🖌️ is now available on the macOS store.

• Final date for #Plasma6 release confirmed! Our countdown clock will reach zero on the 28th of February 2024. Check out the full timeline until release!

• KDE is 27 years old today 🎂! Happy Birthday to us! Help us keep KDE alive and kicking for 1000 years more (at least)!

• Why did you decide to support KDE? Let us know in the comments.

• The Krita team releases version 5.2 of KDE's immensely popular painting app today 🖌️🎉.

• Help us reach our goal 🥅! We want to sign up 500 KDE Supporting Members before Plasma 6 is released in February. We have already reached more than 💯.If you would like to donate just once, that's great too!

• The story of #GCompris, KDE's successful educational software used for and by millions of children worldwide, is rich and complex. You can help make GCompris even better by becoming a KDE Supporting Member. Find out how here

• Make your #study sessions more productive, compose papers with ease, and ace your #finals with KDE. Our apps and Plasma desktop will give you all you need to succeed during your studies and in #academia... and will even run fine on your old laptop!

• Come and visit the KDE stand at the GNU/LinuxDay in Vorarlberg!

• Check out our new "KDE for Gamers" guide. Do you enjoy KDE? Become a #Supporter and join the game! Help us reach the ultimate goal of providing free software to the whole world!

• Become a Plasma 6 Supporter!

• Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened. You will lose no data, the video you were watching will not skip a frame, and the contents of your clipboard will be intact.

• Help us complete this picture!

• Itinerary 🚅 imports more ticket formats, Merkuro (ex-Kalendar) 🗓️ gets a new look and adds "availability", and KMail 📩 makes encrypting, verifying and signing messages, really, really easy.

• KDE Gear ☀️ 23.08 🏖️ has got you covered! Do you run your own Mastodon instance? Tokodon lets you post to and manage your instance all from one desktop application. It also helps you share your posts through any other app.

• KDE Gear ☀️ 23.08 🏖️ has got you covered! Working through the holidays? Skanpage and Okular are here to help! Skanpage makes organizing your scanned documents easy, while Okular provides you with all the digital signing features you need.

• KDE Gear ☀️ 23.08 🏖️ has got you covered! You can now control shuffling playlists and repeats in Elisa (KDE's feature-rich and elegant music player) using your phone and KDE Connect as a remote.

• KDE Gear ☀️ 23.08 🏖️ has got you covered! Meetups with your mates made easy

• KDE Gear ☀️ 23.08 🏖️ has got you covered!

• Calling All Artists! The Plasma 6 Wallpaper Contest is now open

• Would you like to host Akademy 2024?

• This week in KDE: #Plasma6 development continues, aiming for a stabler, more consistent desktop, and easier to use applications.

• KDE dev Kai Uwe Broulik "accidentally" installed #Plasma6 on his daily driver machine! What happened next will astound you

• Arjen Hiemstra demonstrates how you can access a #remote #desktop on #Wayland using #Plasma and RDP.

• Dragging Docks and Tugging Toolbars - David Redondo explains how devs are mending dragging window elements around in Wayland and how everything will work as expected in #Plasma6.

• Want to know how #Plasma6 is coming along?

• kids, teachers and parents everywhere: check out the new GCompris video channel! Subscribe and learn with fun activities and educational games added over the next weeks! For more educational software and ideas visit

• Good morning! #Akademy2023 is starting today. Are you ready to join us?

• The KDE community welcomes you to Thessaloniki!

• KDE's Annual Report for 2022 has landed. Remember! Your generosity keeps KDE going

• The LabPlot team has released version 2.10.1 of KDE's powerful and versatile data analysis and visualization software.

• #Travel season is here! Let KDE take you to the best spots, most beautiful #beaches, or even #Akademy2023: Check out the new "KDE for #Travellers" guide and... Bon Voyage! Support KDE!

• The KDE booth at Tübix is open for business!

• Tomorrow we will be at #Tübix in Tübingen, Germany! Come and get some stickers and find out about all the exciting KDE news from the people that make it possible

• This week in KDE: we released SDDM 0.20.0, finished porting Plasma 6 to KSvg, improved the performance of Wayland with multi-GPU systems, and tweaked the look of widgets in the panel

• #Kdenlive contributors Jean-Baptiste Mardelle and Eugen Mohr tell us how KDE's video editor came to be, the hurdles it had to overcome over its 20-year history, and how each got involved in the project this fascinating interview

• The KDE Free Qt Foundation is 25 years old today!

• Kids at Akademy-es drew Konqi, the KDE dragon, with Krita.

• KDE presents "For Activists"

• #Akademy2023 interview: Watch Eleftherios Kosmas' incredible journey and the profound role of open source in the 🚀space industry. To know more about his work at Libre Space Foundation, join us for his keynote at Akademy.

• GCompris is KDE's collection of more than 180 fun educational activities for children of all ages, and the team has just released version 3.3!

• The #Akademy2023 schedule is here!

• KDE is developer-friendly 🖥️! Discover all the tools 🛠️, frameworks and libraries that will help you build powerful and cool-looking apps on our brand new "KDE for developers" page

• This week in KDE: HDR is coming to the Plasma desktop🖥️!

• Google Summer of Code kicks off on May 29 at KDE!

• Ready to make a difference in free software with KDE Community?

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The Plasma Sprint is over, and devs have made headway working towards #Plasma6

• #PlasmaMobile news for April: 3 new #apps, PowerPlant, MarkNote, and OptiImage land in Plasma Mobile; Tokodon invites you to explore #Mastodon; NeoChat helps you organize events through #Matrix with #location sharing; and much, much more.

• Season of KDE 2023 is over!

• How to hit 3 KDE goals with one proverbial stone!

• News for KDE's personal information management software 📧 🗓️

• g10 Code becomes a KDE patron🎉!

• The newest version of Kate, released with KDE Gear ⚙️ 23.04, now boosts its LSP features with inlay hints, allowing you to code faster and more accurately.

• #LAS2023 is taking place this weekend!

• KDE Gear ⚙️ 23.04: Service providers may move the goalposts, but KDE devs keep your apps working. More KDE Gear ⚙️ 23.04 news

• KDE Gear ⚙️ 23.04 has landed! Today we are focusing on the new arrivals 🛸 to Gear.

• digiKam 8 has landed 📸! digiKam 8.0 comes loaded with new features, not least of which are a brand new online manual

• Check out KDE's new ePub reading app 📖: Arianna!

• We are at FOSSAsia in Singapore! Come and visit us, find out about our cool projects and grab some stickers!

• KDE Connect, KDE's protocol/app combo that connects phones, laptops and desktop computers seamlessly, races towards version 2.0!

• Want to help KDE Connect? Donate here

• Kubuntu Focus becomes a KDE patron!

• The FOSSASIA Summit 2023 is just around the corner!

• Akademy2023 is just around the corner!

• Say hello to KDE Discuss!

• Got an interesting project you want to showcase? Insight into ways things work (or should work!) in Free Software? Deadline extended to April 30th. Don't miss it!

• GCompris, KDE's fun suite of educational activities, has just released version 3.2!

• This month in Plasma Mobile, we started porting to Qt6; prepared the next Gear 23.04 release; and improved dozens of apps like Tokodon, Arianna, Audiotube, Kalendar, Dialer, and so much more!

• This week in KDE, we made screencasting work in XWayland applications, made Discover handle Fedora distro updates, and much more!

• Don't forget! The deadline for submitting talk proposals for #Akademy2023 is March 31st.

• LabPlot, KDE's full-featured app for data analysis and visualization, releases version 2.10.

• Join us at #Akademy2023! Registration is now OPEN.

• We are at SCaLE 20x! Come visit our booth, talk to community members, check out gadgets and software, and grab some stickers!

• Akademy-es, KDE Spain's annual event, will be held in Málaga on the 9th and 10th of June.

• The KDE PIM team has been working hard over the past two months on their latest developments, including the highly anticipated return of Google contacts and calendar access.

• Wherever humans are searching for new particles, analyzing mountains of data, or seeking new stars, KDE is there too.

• This week in KDE we started porting Plasma to Qt6, made the new outline configurable, improved the reliability of multi-screen setup and much more!

• This week in KDE, we continued making our multi-monitor support even better, made it possible to set an image as lockscreen wallpaper directly from Dolphin and visually overhauled Discover and Plasma Welcome Center.

• Sign up for Google Summer of Code 2023 with KDE!

• Tokodon 23.02 is out 🎉 Try the brand new post editor, the improved timelines (with video support now) and the new fancy search popup

• We explore these and other questions in #KDEEco's new measurement handbook "Applying The #BlueAngel Criteria To Free Software: A Handbook To Certify Software As #Sustainable".

• It's ❤ Free Software day and KDE's brand new Plasma 5.27 desktop is out!

• Not sure what to speak about at #Akademy2023? No need to be anxious, we have a guideline article to get you started.

• Tomorrow we will be releasing our ❤-infused Plasma 5.27 desktop, just in time for ❤ Free Software day! Be the first to get the Plasma 5.27 preinstalled with KDE Slimbook laptops and make the most of their #ilovefs sales -- €150 off!

• We are at State of Open Con 23 from 7 to 8 February!

• The #Akademy2023 Call for Participation (CfP) is now open!

• Plasma Mobile 23.01 is out 📱!

• KDE will be attending the State of Open Conference in London on the 7th and 8th of February.

• All #Akademy2022 videos are now online.

• FOSDEM is less than two weeks away (4 & 5 Feb.). The KDE Krew will be there in our usual place in building K, with an array of interesting devices, stickers, merch and more. Come and see us!

• Season of KDE has started!

• The GCompris team have released version 3.1 of the suite of free educational activities.

• KDE's Plasma 5.27 Beta desktop is now out!

• GCompris releases version 3.0 of the collection of educational activities for children.

• An Enthusiastic Plasma User: An Illustrated Epic.

• The first edition of the Creative Freedom Summit kicks of on January 17th and will run until the 19th.

• #Akademy2023 will be a hybrid event in Thessaloniki, Greece from 15-21 July.

• Happy New Year! Happy New Tokodon! 🎉 🎆

• You did it 🥳! Your generosity helped us reach our stretch goal 💸💸.

• Kdenlive fundraiser news: With only 3 days to go, we need one last push!

• KDE's End of Year Fundraiser just passed 20,000 €!

• This week in KDE: Holiday features🎄!

• We are nearing the end of our #fundraiser and we still have a bit to go.

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#digiKam introduces version 7.9.0 of its full-featured image management/processing software.

• This week in KDE

• Join Season of KDE (SoK) and get a head start into contributing to KDE!

• We're excited to announce that #LAS2023 will be held in Brno, Czech Republic!

• Make more movies 🎥 with the new Kdenlive 22.12!

• Halfway there! 10,000 € raised in our End Of Year fundraiser already.

• KDE Gear ⚙️ 22.12 is here!

• Tis the season for Free Software, KDE and Giving!

• Check out what's new in PlasmaMobile Gear ⚙️ 22.11

• All QtCon Brasil 2022 videos are now online.

• KDE's new Goals 🥅 start today! Join us for our kick-off meeting at 16:00 UTC 🕓.

• Today is #BlueFriday!

• #BlueFriday is coming! Fabulous discounts on all KDE apps, desktops and frameworks!

• Job Offer: KDE needs a software engineer.

• KDE launches 3 new Community Goals

• It's National Novel Writing Month (#NaNoWriMo) and KDE has the ideal tool for the writer within you

• Come and discover KDE at Latinoware! #Latinoware2022 starts today and will run until the 4th of November. Visit our booth, get stickers and join our community!

• Unleash your kreativity with KDE! Discover all the Free Software tools for drawing, video-editing, animation and publishing on our hub for artists and designers.

• This Saturday Kdenlive takes Manhattan! We'll be at the All-American High School Film Festival in New York.

• KDE Plasma 5.26.1 adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from KDE's contributors to Plasma 5.26. Updates arriving soon on your desktop.

• The KDE Community extends a very warm welcome to Nate Graham, new Board member at KDE e.V.; and bids a fond farewell to Neofytos Kolokotronis.

• Missed #Akademy2022? We got you covered. Check out here the complete summary of the conference

• KDE has a new Mastodon account!🎉🐘 Come and join us in the Fediverse!

• Plasma 5.26 has landed!

• We happily welcome our first co-keynote speakers, Pedro Bessa and Volker Hilsheimer.

• Good morning! #Akademy2022 is starting today. Are you ready to join us?

• #Akademy2022 Interview: A sneak peek into the world of Hector Martin, lead developer on the Asahi Linux project.

• Congratulations to #Okular for the official recognition of your outstanding work!

• Don’t miss Akademy 2022 this weekend and support it by using our official hashtag #Akademy2022. You can also use one of our Akademy e-Banners on your social media, blog or website!

• PlasmaMobile 22.09 Gear ⚙ is here, and offers an improved home screen, improved features, and an overall improved experience for your phone and tablet.

• Kdenlive's first fundraiser starts today! Donate and help support developers implement exciting new features (like nested timelines and a new effects panel), and maintain and improve the code.

• Hector Martin, our second Keynote Speaker at #Akademy2022 will tell us the story of “Asahi Linux - One chip, no docs, and lots of fun”.

• KDE's Plasma 5.26 Beta desktop is now out! Get an advance peek into what is to come in October, check for bugs 🪳, and help the devs polish the features and code!

• Akademy 2022 Interview: A sneak peek into the world of Qt with Volker Hilsheimer and Pedro Bessa.

• The wait is over! Our first keynote speakers for #Akademy2022 are Volker Hilsheimer and Pedro Bessa. They will be “Building the Future of Qt, Together”.

• Do you use #Kdenlive for your movies and videos? Share your project and behind the scenes footage and stills!

• KDE Gear ⚙️ 22.08 has landed!

• After the hustle and bustle of talks and BoFs at #Akademy2022, you can enjoy a day trip to Montserrat mountain.

• Akademy is finally back in person with full of exciting talks and activities. Check out some of the intriguing topics in #Akademy2022's schedule

• Enjoy messaging using Rocket Chat? KDE has an app for that: try Ruqola. Version 1.7.3 just out!

• The wait is over: Akademy 2022 schedule is now live!

• Ready to go! The KDE booth at Scale19x is open for business!

• KDEEco energy measurement lab update. Sprint achievements and to-dos! Can the FOSS community make software updates less CO2 intensive?

• Looking fresh... Grab your Akademy T-shirt ready for Akademy 2022 and see you in Barcelona!

• In California at the end of July? Come visit the KDE booth at #Scale19x!

• KDE is supporting Nest with Fedora! Fedora's annual contributor conference.

• Akademy 2022 will be a hybrid event, in Barcelona & online from Saturday 1st - Friday 7th October 2022.

• KDE's 2021 Annual Report is out.

• The new KDE Slimbook 4 is here!

• Akademy 2022 Registration is Open!

• Aleix Pol explains what KDE, Plasma, the apps, and the community is all about to Marcelo Tapia on the LT8 Radio Rosario Podcast (in Spanish).

• Attention California! Come visit the KDE booth at #SCaLE19x 2022 and find out about our projects, get sweet stickers, attend demos, and more!

• New video tutorial: Learn how to generate and visualize random numbers in Uniform, Normal (Gaussian), Binomial, Poisson, Weibull (and more) distributions.

• Design your own KDE sticker! We are looking for new images to include with the #Akademy2022 stickers.

• We're halfway through the year and it is a good moment to review what KDE's app developers have been up to these past months.

• Submit a Goal and help shape the future of KDE!


• The Call for Participation for #Akademy2022 closes on Sunday, 19 June 2022 at 11.59 pm UTC. Don't wait, send your talk now!

• Got something to say about KDE? Say it at Akademy 2022! The deadline has been extended until the 19th June.

• Plasma 5.25 is out!

• #Akademy2022 Call for Participation is still open! Today is the last day to send your talks.

• Bring the Linux App Summit 2023 to your city!

• KDE is participating in Google Summer of Code 2022
• Learn LabPlot the easy way!

• The Akademy 2022 Call for Participation is open!

• KDE releases today Plasma 5.25 Beta. (Report Bugs here!)

• Want to take your first steps in LabPlot? Check out our introduction Videos in YouTube

• KDE Connect is now available for iOS!

• A new version of LabPlot, KDE's data analysis and visualization software, has landed.

• During Season of KDE, people get started in contributing to Free Software. Check out the projects that brought together new members and veteran KDE mentors this year to make everybody's lives better.

• #kdenlive 22.04 is released with more than 300 commits, mostly focused on stability and polishing, ranging from packaging all the way up to user interface enhancements.

• The Linux App Summit is starting today. You can visit virtually as well as in person.

• The Linux App Summit is starting tomorrow. It will be held virtually and in-person on 29-30 April in Rovereto, Italy.

• Plasma Mobile Gear ⚙ 22.04 is here!

• How can KDE and FOSS help computing be eco-friendly?

• KDE Gear ⚙️ 22.04 is here!

• GCompris 2.4 Release: Improved Data Efficiency Conserves Network Bandwidth, Saves Energy