Notices by KDE (kde@mastodon.technology), page 3

LliureX is an educational distro by the local government in Valencia based on KDE neon and KDE Plasma, due for release next month.

They are at the Plasma sprint and have been warmly received.

Meanwhile over in Madrid last night they won the #OpenExpo19 #OpenAwards 2019! https://twitter.com/OpenExpoEurope/status/1141744682650804224

Found a bug in KDE software? Here's how you can help us solve it:

https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

Plasma 5.16 is out! Check out all the new features and marvel at the improvements that now make working with Plasma smoother and more fun!

https://dot.kde.org/2019/06/11/plasma-516-kde-now-available

"Plasma does Groundhog day" -- The second teaser for KDE's upcoming Plasma 5.16 desktop.

https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/43dc9f0c-c827-49c7-8f1b-6462e820f0fa

We are looking for new big ideas. Submit your proposal for what our community should focus on next and set KDE's goals for the coming years.

http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2019/06/09/evolving-kde-lets-set-some-new-goals-for-kde/

The KDE Community welcomes our Google Summer of Code students for 2019! These students will be working with our development teams throughout the summer, adding features, squashing bugs and porting apps to new platforms.

https://dot.kde.org/2019/06/09/announcing-our-google-summer-code-2019-students

Back in March, the privacy team met up in Leipzig. Read about their plans to anonymize connections of KDE apps with the outside world, make encrypting folders easy (coming in Plasma 5.16!) and sandbox KWallet.

https://dot.kde.org/2019/06/05/kde-privacy-sprint-2019-edition

We have a winner! Plasma 5.16's next wallpaper will be Ice Cold by Santiago Cézar.

https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visual_Design_Group/Plasma_5.16_Wallpaper_Competition#We_have_a_Winner.21

Santiago will be receiving a @slimbook One compact computer as soon as we get Plasma 5.16 on it.

KDE Plasma 5.16 Beta: Your Three Week Notification for a More Tidy and Composed Desktop
🌞 Re-written notification widgets and controls
🌞 Redesigned settings pages
🌞 Login theme updated

📅Three weeks to bug fix before final.
🎨 Wallpaper competition still open!

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.15.90.php

The KDE family grows: Kaidan, the Kirigami-based Jabber chat client joins the Community:
https://www.kaidan.im/2019/05/10/kaidan-joins-kde/

The @gnome and KDE communities are looking for locations for the Linux App Summit (LAS) 2019, an event that wants to help the Linux application ecosystem flourish.

https://dot.kde.org/2019/05/07/bring-linux-app-summit-2019-home

Got a great idea for a desktop wallpaper? Want to win a cool prize? Check out our KDE Plasma 5.16 wallpaper competition, bask in the admiration of hundreds of thousands of Plasma users, and win a Slimbook One computer.

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=312&t=160487

New in 19.04: now get your KDE Applications goodness also from the Snap Store:

https://snapcraft.io/publisher/kde

KDE Applications 19.04 is out! The bundle comes with improvements and exciting new features for Okular, Gwenview, Konsole, Kate, Spectacle, Kontact, and many, many more.

Article: https://dot.kde.org/2019/04/18/kde-applications-1904-released

Full announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-19.04.0.php

Akademy-es, la cita anual de la comunidad KDE, se celebrará en Junio en la bella ciudad de Vigo. Prepárate para interesantes paseos por el casco antiguo, mariscadas de infarto, y... oh, sí... fascinantes charlas sobre KDE.

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Akademy-es, KDE Spain's annual community event, will be held in June in the pretty city of Vigo. Get ready for visits to the quaint old town, amazing seafood and, oh.. yeah: lots of fascinating KDE talks.

https://www.kde-espana.org/akademy-es-2019-se-realizara-en-vigo

In #KDEApps1904, Okular gets support to show and verify digital signatures on PDFs. This feature is essential to use KDE's document viewer for business or if you need to exchange documents in any official capacity... like when negotiating international peace treaties.

https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/8b5c1cb8-9b56-4b56-aeaf-11982a67e40a

The @blender community have done it again! Behold Spring, Blender's new film. Beautiful designs and fantastic effects show how you can create professional, Hollywood-grade CGI using Free Software. Congrats Blender!

https://youtu.be/WhWc3b3KhnY

If you are getting a Pepper and Carrot vibe, it is no coincidence: @davidrevoy, creator of P&C, used @krita to design the look of the film:

https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/101869296371901817

Kdenlive, KDE's advanced video editor, is nearing its great refactoring. To push things forward, the team met in Lyon and crushed bugs, tweaked usability and added demanded features. Read all about it at

https://kdenlive.org/en/2019/03/sprint-2019-in-lyon/

Also... **KDENLIVE SPRINT - THE MOVIE** Check out the video with interviews of Kdenlive team members:

https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/f4061bc9-2fc6-4022-8019-cc6b5eda9b18

Cut and edited with Kdenlive, of course!

Falkon, KDE's modern web browser, has reached version 3.1! You can now write and run plugins in QML, enjoy better and more stable support for Python plugins and improved integration with KDE's Plasma desktop.

https://www.falkon.org/2019/03/19/falkon-310-released/

The rise of movements we can only imagine now, but that could be similarly beneficial to that of Free Software, will be impeded by an Internet restricted by articles 11 and 13. It would be far better if articles 11 and 13 simply did not happen.

You can help stop this by getting in touch with your representative in the EU parliament. Find out how you can do this here:

https://saveyourinternet.eu/act/