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Next week is openSUSE Conference week! I'm using both my openSUSE and KDE blogs to remind everyone that we're having a pre-conference meetup at 6pm for the KDE team before the real conference begins at Barfüßer in the Nuernberg old town. Remember a morning of keynotes is only fun if you have a thumping hangover from microbrewed beer (and if you're a keynote speaker, from local schapps too)! If you are attending the conference or if you are just a friend of KDE in the area, please join in. Read More

<a href="https://blogs.kde.org/files/images/marble_opencyclemap_update1.png target="_BLANK"> 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. Read More

We've been working on QSparql for a few months now, and I feel it is starting to be something that could be used by a wider audience. It is a simple QSql-like library for accessing various RDF stores such as KDE's Nepomuk data in Virtuoso, SPARQL endpoints on the web via HTTP, and Gnome or MeeGo Nepomuk data in Tracker stores. It differs from Soprano in that it is much smaller and lower level, and it is asynchronous and uses Qt slot callbacks by default, whereas Soprano is usually a synchronous style api. Read More

McGrath's dream, linked by Henri: "There's a huge pool of web developers with HTML and JS skills that can now contribute to desktop apps. Watch how fast GNOME and KDE advance when this happens." Read More

Ubuntu Open Week is a week of talks about how to get involved in the many parts of Ubuntu. I'm doing a talk at 16:00UTC today which is titled "Kubuntu is Awesome". Join us in #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat on Freenode IRC Read More

The date and time are set, Kubuntu 10.10 is out. Highlights include all the latest KDE Software, an application focused software installer, combined Desktop/Netbook images, new installer layout (MP3 ready during the install!), a new web browser, a shiny new font, a nifty global menu for Netbook, Kubuntu Mobile featuring Plasma Mobile (technology preview), ooh lots more! Read More

It's the nicht afore release day. Announcements need to be tidied up, upgrades need final testing, release notes need completing, web pages readied. I'm in for a long evening. All going well, tomorrow morning you should find the internet successfully choked as everyone downloads 10.10. It's going to be exciting. Join #ubuntu-release-party to get in the mood. Read More

Bug fixes are still coming into the KDEPIM 4.4 branch, so I'm planning to make a 4.4.7 release. Tagging in a week or two -- current estimate is 21 October. Read More

Today it's all hands on board for the final candidate testing. Upgrades need testing too. Join us in #kubuntu-devel to help.

The Ubuntu Font has finally had its licence sorted out and been released to the masses. It has also been uploaded to the archive and set as default in Kubuntu. I'm a big fan of the font, I find it distinctive but undistracting, suitable at large and small sizes, readable on screens and printed. Best of all this is the first time a font has been made with the intention of running it as an open project. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Greek but there's plenty of work to be done to get it supporting e.g. Arabic (which has suffered from a lack of fonts made for computer use). I'm looking forward to monospace too since that's what I spend most of my day staring at. Read More