KDE will be again participating in Google Summer of Code 🎉!

Find out how you can contribute to KDE, learn valuable skills using bleeding edge Free Software technologies and get compensated.

There are already loads of proposals on the GSoC ideas page

https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2025/Ideas

Which one are you going to do?

#gsoc2025 #mentorship #opensource #freesoftware

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Can you help us get KDE's software on all those new devices🔧? KDE is hiring!

https://ev.kde.org/resources/jobad-plasma-software-engineer-2025.pdf

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#jobOffer #OpenSource #development

The latest episode of "This Week in KDE Apps" covers big changes in Krita, KDE's popular art app; SystemDGenie's re-design; and Dolphin's new, more compact statusbar.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/25/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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"This Week in Plasma" brings refinements for the weather widget, digital clock, System Settings, Widget Explorer side bar, and more.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/22/this-week-in-plasma-refinements-all-around/

#freesoftware #plasma6 #OpenSource #desktop

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This Week in KDE Apps covers new releases for Kaidan, Tellico and Amarok; usability improvements for Itinerary, Kasts and Kate; fixes for KOrganizer and Konsole; and new stuff in Merkuro and SystemDGenie.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/17/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #freesoftware #opensource

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This Week in Plasma explains how we deal with post-release issues in the wake of Plasma 6.3—and how more testers are needed, and lists the UI improvements arriving in 6.3.1, and the new features lined up for 6.4.0. and beyond.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/15/this-week-in-plasma-post-release-polishing/

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Plasma 6.3 is here... and it's Pixel Perfect!

One year on from Plasma 6.0, and this is what you can expect in your next update: massive steps in the support and configuration of drawing tablets, pixel perfect window placing and zoom, extended hardware monitoring, even more customization possibilities, and so much more.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.0/

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Call for papers for conf.kde.in 2025 is now open!

Organizers of KDE's conference in India are looking for talks relevant to the KDE community and technology, as well as workshops or presentations targeted towards new contributors.

Submit your proposal today!

https://conf.kde.org/event/8/abstracts/

#cki2025 #events #conference #freesoftware #opensource #india

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This week in KDE Apps presents... So many things!

New releases land for @Krita, Glaxnimate, @gcompris and Kstars; and fixes and improvements for Akonadi, Elisa, Dolphin, Falkon, Itinerary, Kasts, Kate, @kdenlive, Krita, KRDC, Marknote, Okular, PlasmaTube, Barcode Scanner,... and @tokodon !

Phew!

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/10/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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This Week in Plasma's final #Plasma6.3 polishing brings a nicer looking Welcome Center, better keyboard navigation for Kate's session's widget, an option make panel pop-ups use the floating style.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/08/this-week-in-plasma-final-plasma-6.3-polishing/

#freesoftware #opensource #desktop

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KDE's recently adopted animation program Glaxnimate releases version 0.6.0 Beta.

This is the first official _test_ release of Glaxnimate under the KDE umbrella and testers are needed to check for bugs. Download the AppImage and try it out!

https://glaxnimate.org/news/releases/0.5.80/

#animation #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #design #videoediting

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KDE's Indian Conference, conf.kde.in 2025 kicks of on the 4th of April.

Join us, along with the Google Developers on Campus group, at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, for three intense days of talks, meetings and hackathons.

https://conf.kde.in/2025/

#cki2025 #event #india #freesoftware #opensource

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