Many app projects do not have the infrastructure to accept donations (but som do: check the individual pages of each app or donate through GitHub).
You donate to KDE, and that reverts to the project maintainers, developers and other contributors.
Support Good People and Adopt an App!
Our developers are volunteers, but they still need funding to travel to meetings and events, take time off their day job to implement those crucial features, and buy or rent equipment and server space.
You can help: Adopt an App during our #fundraiser and give our contributors the resources they need!
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
Donate to our Fundraiser, Support Good People!
@gnome, @tdforg, @fsfe and many other community-driven Free and Open Source organizations are the Good People of the tech world.
This year we are asking you consider them (and also maybe us!) when you #donate. Help out the people that fight for your digital rights, your privacy,and your right to not be exploited by predatory corporations in the tech industry.
The latest issue of This Week in KDE Apps is here: find out what's new in the Dolphin, Itinerary, digiKam, Elisa, GCompris, Kate projects and more.
In this issue we look at Dolphin's new accessibility features, Itinerary's travelling aids, a new GCompris educational activity, and a bunch of upcoming KDE apps, among many other things.
This Week in Plasma: spoooooky ooooooooom notifications!
In this episode: We moved! And we added a useful service to detect out-of-memory (OOM) conditions, did some UI polishing, and also a lot of bug-fixing!
Read all about it here:
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/02/this-week-in-plasma-spoooooky-ooooooooom-notifications/
What happens when your operating system π€ develops ideas of its own?
Find out in our chilling Halloween story "THE RICHMOND DESKTOP MASSACRE".
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
And don't forget to donate! KDE counts on you to support us in our fight against the forces of darkness π»π.
Our End of Year Fundraiser is live! Donate and keep the dark armies of tech-ghouls π§ at bay!
http://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
And just in time for #Halloween π, Konqi and Katie bring you the most nightmarish tales from the #spooky realms of proprietarysoftwareland.
All based on true storiesΒΉ!
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ΒΉ Kinda.
"This week in KDE Apps" is out!
We migrated more apps to Qt6, made Dolphin more optimized for mobile, added many new features to Tokodon, and much more.
Read all about it at
KUnifiedPush: KDE's efficient way of delivering notifications to your apps
KUnifiedPush, KDE's client library for the UnifiedPush protocol, has reached version 1.0.0. KUnifiedPush provides a way to deliver notifications instantly to multiple apps on your devices even if the apps are not running.
Ideal for social media, weather and instant messaging apps, it will also contribute to improving the battery life on your mobile devices.
Want KDE to be around another #28, 50, 100 years? You can make it happen!
KDE is an open and accepting community and we welcome everybody willing to lend a hand. You can contribute too! Get started by visiting this:
https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved
Note we also have 2 community #goals dedicated to helping everybody become an active contributor:
#anniversary #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
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On KDE's 28th anniversary, it is worth looking back to see how we got here. Check out our timeline π°οΈ:
Happy Birthday to us ππ! KDE is 28 years old today!
Join us and hold a KDE birthday party in your city. Fill in the wiki, meet up with your friends and celebrate 28 years of collaboration, free software and altruism!
Note that due to unforeseen circumstances, we have been unable to ship the new wallpaper, "Reef", with this version of Plasma. However, a new wallpaper will be coming soon in the next 6.2 version of Plasma.
If you can't wait, you can download "Reef" from here:
We would like to remind you that both @Krita and @kdenlive are currently running fundraisers:
#Krita :
Apple had to learn the hard way: Under the DMA (thanks @EUCommission !) they were forced to give users a choice regarding the default search engine and browser on their systems.
What are we going to do about Microsoft misleading users?
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1689
KDE provided the software that allowed to recover machines that had been obsoleted by the successive updates from Microsoft Windows, and this made possible for the CACD to carry out the program.
https://cacd.nationbuilder.com/programs_at_cacd
We provided support and advice so that the teens could familiarise themselves with open source software, saving them from being trapped in the proprietary cycle of buy new hardware, update, be forced to buy new hardware, update, rinse and repeat.
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We are also nearing completion of the Supporting Members campaign. Only 16 more to go!:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
We are completely floored by your generosity, and thank you for helping us keep KDE running and producing free software for the world.
IMPORTANT
Please note that release candidates, although often called "sneak peeks", are still work in progress and must be installed and used with extreme care. They will contain bugs, some of which may still be critical. Do not use this software in production environments. Use for testing only.
... But many people are confirming that the current version is already very mature and quite stable. Ultimately it is your choice. Use at your own risk -- and report all those bugs to
The final release is only 10 weeks away!
WARNING: This is #betasoftware, lots of things are untested and can fail. We strongly recommend you do NOT use it in a production environments. The Beta release should only be used for testing and reporting bugs.
@Strit @ivandelviejo
The few euros that reach the projects, helps fund development. There are also some apps on Steam and it is the same idea.