We are at 95% of our first stretch goal!
With less than β¬3,000 to go, our fundraiser is about to cross the β¬50,000 mark, and we will be entering the final stretch of our campaign.
Will your donation push us over the line?
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Adoptable Games - part π²π²
What are your favorite KDE games? Here are some of ours, now up for adoption:
* Kubrick - Rubik's cube simulator with lots of different cubes to pick from
* KGoldRunner - Platformer that combines arcade action with problem-solving
* Picmi - A simple, but surprisingly addictive logic game
* KiGo - Play Go against the computer or friend. Multiple board sizes and levels of difficulties
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This year, KDE will be again at #38c3, this time as part of the "Bits & BΓ€ume / about:freedom" assembly, alongside many similar-minded organizations like the @fsfe, @edri, @openstreetmap and more!
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/assembly/bitsundbaeume/_aboutfreedom/
In "This Week in KDE Apps"...
* Itinerary keeps your travel data safe (and lets you import and export it)
* Gardening app PowerPlant gets new looks
* Kaidan, the XMPP chat app, releases version 0.10.0 and 0.10.1
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/15/this-week-in-kde-apps-gear-24.12.0-is-out/
Remember to support your favorite apps donating to our fundraiser!:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
Adoptable apps: Games edition π²
KDE makes a long list of games, and we will be adding some to the list of adoptable apps over the next few days.
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/#adopt
Here are the first four:
* KNights is for playing chess. You can pick the chess engine, play over the Internet, monitor your progress and more.
* KNetWalk is a puzzle game where you have to connect all the computers to the Internet.
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This Week in Plasma: Better fractional scaling, improved screen color accuracy, maximize a window horizontally or vertically by double-clicking on one of its edges, clipboard data migrated to SQLite.
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/14/this-week-in-plasma-better-fractional-scaling/
Microsoft "innovating":
Meanwhile, KDE Connect be like:
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KDE Gear βοΈ 24.12 is out! Check out what's coming in the new versions of Dolphin, Kdenlive, Kate, Okular, NeoChat, and much, much more.
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KDE Gear βοΈ 24.12 is out! Check out what's coming in the new versions of Dolphin, Kdenlive, Kate, Okular, NeoChat, and much, much more.
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.12.0/
Help support KDE's work! You can still adopt an app at our fundraiser:
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Join the KDE End of Year documentation porting sprint π! There are currently 58 open tasks up for grabs!
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Join the KDE End of Year documentation porting sprint π! There are currently 58 open tasks up for grabs!
https://discuss.kde.org/t/end-of-year-documentation-sprint/26686
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ISO Image Writer, Partition Manager, SkanPage and System Monitor added to the list of adoptable apps.
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ISO Image Writer, Partition Manager, SkanPage and System Monitor added to the list of adoptable apps.
If using the command line to burn disk images makes you nervous, ISO Image Writer is your friend!
Likewise, creating and modifying partitions can be scary, so why not use KDE's friendly Partition Manager?
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
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In "This Week in KDE Apps": Optilmage's first release; Itinerary's re-design; how Karp, KDE's new PDF designer, has improved its performance; the upcoming KDE Gear βοΈ 24.12 release; and more.
You too can contribute to keeping KDE's apps going by adopting at our fundraiser:
To make more things like this happen, to help those that the IT industry left behind or consider mere fodder for the data-grinding machine, to return control over technology to the common people, and protect the environment, we need your help.
Become a supporter. Help us reach the landmark number of 1000 supporters before the launch of #Plasma6.
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
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So we also managed to avoid having all those machines ending up in landfills, polluting the soil and waterways because providers of proprietary OSes only want you to buy new stuff and ignore the impact on the environment.
https://floss.social/@be4foss/111980254502881355
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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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Plasma 6 tars were made available to packagers yesterday. So, yes, distro packagers and OEM installers already have the software and are installing it now ready for next Wednesday's official release.
Help organize the fun and suggest activities and games!:
https://discuss.kde.org/t/party-games-for-kdes-megarelease-6-in-february/9435
Of course! Also, Plasma Mobile is getting an update to Plasma Mobile 6 at the end of February.
Our Drive for Supporters is still open!:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
Help us reach 1000 members before Plasma 6 Release Day!
Joshua "@redstrate" Goins works on Plasma bugfixing, improving tablet/gamepad support and the various libraries that Plasma and Gear apps are built upon.