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Just noticed on the BBC News front page Ubuntu sets crowdfund pledge record. Good luck with the pledges Edgers!

Umbrello is the premier UML diagram tool for Linux desktops. UML is a standard for making diagrams of software, useful for documenting and planning your programs. I took over Umbrello in about 2002 and maintained it as part of my University final year project. One of the first changes that I made to Umbrello was to make it a KDE project, it was the natural home. But I never moved the website or mailing list, Sourceforge was good enough. Read More

Gosh I only expected a donation occasionally but we've had 19 people want to thank Kubuntu enough to donate us some money. Thanks Coorey, Orlando, Marcelo, Fabian, Giancarlo, Juan, Javier, Jussi, David, Kevin, Jeremy, Łukasz, Christoph, Nadeem, Philippe, Daniel, Lieven, Christoph, Noam!

Project Neon is a fantastic resource for KDE developers giving daily builds for KDE software. It's maintained by the lovely Kubuntu community on the lovely Launchpad infrastructure. KDE developers can install the various bits they need to develop their part of KDE without having to worry about compiling everything themselves. It installs everything into /opt so it doesn't touch your normal software installation. Thanks to the hard work of Harald and others we have the first KDE Frameworks 5 builds on Neon! I expect this to prove a vital resource in developing Frameworks 5. Read More

The office suite Calligra can save many file formats, but the main one is OpenDocument Format. With a proposed improvement, it can be easier than ever to code on Calligra. The OpenDocument files (odt, ods, odp) that Calligra writes are zip files with XML documents and images. The XML documents have a schema, a set of rules that say what goes where in the files. Here is a small sample of ODF, indented for readability: Read More

One of the many things to look forward to in the impending KDE Plasma 4.11 release is a new version of the default Task Manager applet, which had its front-facing bits rewritten from scratch, along with additional support work and improvements in the underlying library. Read More

Who is KDE? I did some 30 second interviews on the booze cruise last night to give you a flavour.

K people discussing KPeople The organising team busy organising Solid developers don't liquidise in the heat Read More

The day started with a long release schedule BoF. No conclusion but less freezes seemed popular. Shorter release schedule seemed mostly popular with a 4 month schedule getting a fair bit of approval. Not ideal of us though as it would get things out of sync with the Ubuntu schedule. Read More

The other day I went to buy a DDR stick but the shop was closed so the only solution was to sit down and fix some memory hungry applications ;). Read More