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Talks wanted for Cross-Desktop room at FOSDEM. Doing something interesting in KDE? Tell the world of developers about it. Submissions by 22nd December 2010 to: crossdesktop@lists.fosdem.org

This news is perhaps a little bit late, but I can assure you I've been very busy in the meantime. The first day of November Debbie and I were able to welcome our first child to the world, Toby Edwards. We are all very happy. It was a pretty tough labour and result was a health boy who has since been busy growing and stacking on weight. The parenting learning curve is quite steep at the start but I think we're finally getting the hang of managing the baby and sleeping enough. Read More

As a followup to my previous post: I just added a feature to kdesrc-build which makes it possible to run the tests and upload the result to http://my.cdash.org. Just add the line "run-tests upload" in your module definition for kdelibs, and others if wanted. Read More

Linux fragmentation requires extra effort from packagers, and extra communication efforts between software vendors and packagers. To lower this unnecessary pain I shall remind, how to package Kexi? Kexi depends on many packages that are highly optional, only suggested for "full installation", which in turn is rarely needed in real world. So each database driver ideally should be packaged separately for the best user experience. For example there is no need for user of file databases to install PostgreSQL or Sybase package(s). Did I mention Oracle? Read More

I was asked to give a talk at TechMeetup Edinburgh about Qt. Techmeetup is an occational event with free beer and pizza and talks. I told them why they want to use Qt, how to write a basic programme in it then introduced the exiting world of Qt Quick. Video online now.

Well, the ramp-up for KDE SC 4.6 has begun now, with soft freezes taking effect yesterday and the first beta due in about 1 week. So... we have decided that there is no point to putting any more effort into the long-awaited KDEPIM 4.5. Read More

UDS in Florida is over, we flew home and left the sun behind. The main outcome from the conference is a long Kubuntu Todo list. In the packaging section we naturally want the latest bits of KDE and Qt. We'd like to try raster in Qt. We're going to try gtk-oxygen theme. Scott is going to look at automatic bulids on his ARM machines. GStreamer will be investigated. We'll be looking at whether it makes sense to packaging Owncloud and Plasma Media Centre. Then there's Project Neon, a top secret relaunch of the project to make daily builds of Qt and KDE. Read More

Yesterday, I moved KBugBuster from trunk/KDE/kdesdk to tags/unmaintained/4. For those unfamiliar with it, it is/was a frontend to KDE's Bugzilla, so that you could interact with it without a web browser. Read More

The Marble Sprint Weekend is about to start at the basysKom Office in Nuremberg. If you're around and if you're curious about development of the Marble Virtual Globe then don't hesitate to join us. This is your best chance to get involved! We'll have lots of interesting topics about Marble presented on Saturday. See our Marble Sprint Wiki for more information. Thanks go to the KDE e.V. and basysKom for sponsoring this event. In other news Peregrine got released today! See the basysKom announcement. Peregrine is a crossplatform real-time communication client that integrates all daily needed communication services for VoIP, Video and Chat in one solution. I'll cover this release and project more extensively in a different blog entry.

You won't find any (obvious) link on Gitorious, but if you want to enable email notifications you need to go to http://gitorious.org/favorites. Thanks to Mike McQuaid for telling me about this hard-to-find feature of Gitorious.