As you probably know, you can download a lot of additional Marble maps with the “Get hot new stuff” framework. The reason for this entry is that OpenCycleMap is now using a different server for their map storage. For all users of the OpenCycleMap in Marble it means that they will have to update their map configuration if they want to see updated maps.

As you probably know, you can download a lot of additional Marble maps with the “Get hot new stuff” framework. The reason for this entry is that OpenCycleMap is now using a different server for their map storage. For all users of the OpenCycleMap in Marble it means that they will have to update their map configuration if they want to see updated maps.

GSoC 2010 is finished. I would like to share my opinions with you.

It was great summer. I want to thank you all, especially Anne Marie Mahfouf, for trusting me I am good candidate. I learned a lot. Working with kdelibs and qt was an exciting experience to me. Trust me, I learned a lot. I believe that my little contribution will improve the quality of KHangMan. Hope so :)

The tasklist I submit to Google was very realistic, but don't know I why didn't suppose to meet any small bugs need to be solved. Almost all the Community Bonding Period I spent on setting developers environment. Newest Qt, Phonon, DCOP, ... , KDE-Edu. Then, once I compiled everything and I had hoped that everything is fine. Some hours of sleep and then great crash. KDE couldn't start. I was trying under Debian, Kubuntu and Mandriva. Same effect. Over three weeks of downloading, compiling, installing new distros etc...

Hello viewers,

Namaste(Hello) everyone specially marble developers, Writing my first blog because I got accepted in GSOC 2010 for marble and want to keep you updated about my progress. First of all thanks to KDE Community to give me such an opportunity.

Hello blogging world.. This is my first blog entry. I am having my final examination from day after tomorrow, so wish we best of luck ;)

About me:
I am Harshit Jain, a undergraduate student from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU), India. Currently, I am in 6th semester in Computer Science and Engineering. My hometown is Bhilwara, India.

Goal of my GSOC project:
This summer I will work on implementing time support feature in Marble. This project will strengthen the framework and allow user to browse through time to view the information relevant to him.

Here is a short update about Marble Plugins. Let's have a look at the weather plugin. At the moment it can display the weather condition as well as the temperature, but as the backend already holds all the other weather information it's easy to present more. Every weather stations also got a priority, which results into the displayed stations being nicely selected.

During the last weeks I introduces Marbles AbstractDataPlugin classes. These make it possible to generate a full featured Marble plugin showing for example photos on the globe with several hundered lines of code.

Marble is one of my favorite applications. I especially like it in combination with OpenStreetmap. Free software and free maps, a brilliant combination. But I also love the historical map or the moon view.

Marble also is great as a demo application. It's easy to grasp and makes an attractive showcase. To make demoing Marble a bit easier I thought it would be nice to have a Marble live CD, and as I happen to have a great application for doing this at hand, I created some Marble live CDs. You can download them from my Marble live CD page.

I'm interested in feedback. So if you have questions, comments or want to help, contact me.