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Maarten De Meyer | 22 May 2013 01:26
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Use new Konqi mascot

Hi, 
 
A few months ago there was a competition on the forums to give Konqi a new look using Krita. 
This competition was won by tysontan. http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=110100 
 
The result is absolutely beautiful and we should start using it more. For example in the about dialog (bug: 320053) 
Changing the about dialog to use the new mascot is only a case of changing the picture, no code changes needed. 
Before example: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f57s2dohajrnjy9/AboutDialog-Before.png 
After example: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jga53ybs1bci8nz/AboutDialog-After.png 

Now, do we want this already?
Changing the mascot gives a very 'new product' feeling. SC 4.11 (or later) is hardly a revolutionary release. Frameworks 5 on the other hand will be very new and it might make more sense to add the new mascot.

I'm not sure where or when we should add it so I'm asking for feedback here. 
This image is excellent promo. It adds a female dragon that shows everybody is welcome in the community and the image shows what Krita can make in the hands of an artist. 
 
Cheers 
Maarten


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Claudia Rauch | 13 May 2013 11:49
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Free Linuxtag Berlin Tickets

Hi all,

KDE e.V. has a few free Linuxtag Berlin [1] tickets for next week. If
you like one, please contact me and I will send you a link.

Claudia

[1] http://www.linuxtag.org/2013/en.html

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Eckhart Wörner | 11 May 2013 12:44
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FrOSCon 2013 Call for Papers

Hi everybody,

(sorry for hitting the send button a tad early)

just a reminder that FrOSCon Call for Papers is open till May 23rd. Anybody interested in organizing a KDE
booth? (I don't have time to do this myself, unfortunately.)

Eckhart

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Eckhart Wörner | 11 May 2013 12:35
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Claudia Rauch | 30 Apr 2013 12:52
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Linuxtag Berlin booth - staff needed

Hi all,

I've emailed the promo list about Linuxtag [1] in Berlin before but
there wasn't much feedback.Unfortunately, we are having trouble
staffing the booth. This means, if we do not have enough people signed
up by Monday next week, we'll have to cancel the booth. That would be
the first Linuxtag in several years without a KDE presence.

So, if you can spare a few hours and are based in or near Berlin,
consider signing up here:
http://community.kde.org/Promo/Events/Linuxtag/2013

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks,
Claudia

[1] http://www.linuxtag.org/2013/en.html

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Kevin Krammer | 13 Apr 2013 19:22
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KDE at Grazer Linuxtage, April 20th

Hi,

just wanting to let you know that Peter Grasch and I will represent KDE at the 
main annual FOSS event here in Graz, Austria.

Cheers,
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David Edmundson | 7 Apr 2013 16:48
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Re: Planning and such

Hey,

Thanks for the edits. I looked over the article, whilst I really like
the idea of adding an about section, I didn't really like the current
form. It focussed on stuff we didn't do, rather than focussing on what
we do well. It's a rock-solid stable project and I want that to come
across.

Martin, Vishesh and I did a bit of editing and came up with this.

---

KDE Telepathy is an instant messaging suite built upon the <a
href="http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/">Telepathy</a> framework. KDE
Telepathy provides text chat, video calls and file transfer services
over many popular instant messaging platforms including Facebook Chat
and Google Talk.  In addition KTp provides libraries for embedding
instant messaging or real-time collaboration inside your application.

KDE Telepathy follows the philosophy that communication is a service
offered to applications and the desktop. A more indepth technical
explaination can be read over <a
href="http://www.aosabook.org/en/telepathy.html">here</a>, but in
practice, this means that KDE Telepathy consists of independent
components. This allows KDE Telepathy to be well integrated with the
rest of KDE by providing plasmoids and runner interfaces as well as
providing the traditional contact list and chatting application. This
level of desktop integration allows endless possibilities and a
greater freedom of choice with how you interact with your contacts.
Boundaries of Telepathy however do not stop at communication, the next
step is collaboration, for example games can take advantage of
Telepathy and provide a multi-player capabilities without the hassle
of setting up network connections.

--

Also for the Kubuntu link we can link to this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~telepathy-kde/+archive/ppa/

Thanks

David

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David Edmundson | 5 Apr 2013 10:59
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Re: [dot] Promo article for KDE Telepathy 0.6

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Stuart Jarvis <stuart.jarvis <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm away now for jsut over a week, so can't pick this up. Hopefully someone
> else can publish once David's had a chance to answer the questions below.
>
> Cheers,
> Stu
>
> On Wednesday 03 April 2013 12:58:28 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
>> On Wednesday 03 April 2013 12:47:06 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > On Wednesday 03 April 2013 10:50:05 David Edmundson wrote:
>> > > 0.6.0 is now released.
>> > >
>> > > Attached is an updated version of the proposed dot article with the
>> > > FIXMEs filled in. Let me know if I can help with anything.
>> >
>> > I've created an article on the Dot, but not published it yet. It looks
>> > pretty good to me...
>>
>> By the way, my working title for it is:
>> "New KDE Telepathy brings Better Text Editing and Notifications"
>>
>> Sound ok? Or do you think that other features are better to highlight in the
>> title?
>>
sounds OK to me :)

Are you able to post a link?

> One question, the article refers to "a beta of 0.6.0". Is this a beta or the
> actual 0.6.0? (Or is 0.6.0 seen as a beta?)
>
0.6.0 is an actual release and not a beta.

Any references to a beta are copy and paste mistakes by me.

Thanks

David
>> Cheers,
>> Stu

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Jayson Rowe | 2 Apr 2013 14:34
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Daniel Nicoletti Interview

Hi All,
Attached is the first draft of my interview with Daniel. It was suggested after the last round of interviews to do follow ups, conversation style after the initial questions were answered. Daniel and I were on Google Talk last night, and neither of us could come up with anything else right off, so we decided to send this first draft to the list and see if any of you have ideas for additional questions based off of his answers here.

Thanks everybody!
Jayson
Daniel Nicoletti Interview:

Q: Could you start by telling us a little about yourself?

A: I find this self-questions the hardest to answer, but well I'm 27 years old,
married, had twins but, sadly one died in a tragic car accident 2 years ago,
I'm also a Christian, I studied Computer Science here in Brazil on a
university of my church, it's actually funny because I actually studied
my whole life in this institution. I like sports mostly swimming and cycling,
I like to play football but I hate spend time watching it. I also like cars
quite a lot, I dream with the day I'll be able to buy an used BMW :P
People I know normally makes jokes telling me how Windows or some computer
stuff is good, just to get me started preaching how those things suck...

Q: Where do you get your paycheck?

A: I work for a company called Indra that has a software to manage ADSL clients,
and some portals for it, so it's mostly a support work making sure a
bunch of pieces
are working well together. I staying on the client (Telefonica) which is
a 20 minute walking (something great in a city like São Paulo).

Q: What do you do for KDE?

A: A bunch of stuff, I have some problems to stay with a single thing,
right now I think I have a project overflow issue... back to the question,
the projects that take more of my time are Apper, print-manager, colord-kde,
and the list might grow once I find some free time, there is also
libdebconf-kde,
PhotoBook, sessionk... and some other non-KDE projects too...

Q: How did you get started contributing to KDE?

A: My first KDE contribution was around 2007 when I was
writing an application to my conclusion thesis, the
app was called doka and was supposed to accelerate
downloads, at that time a download accelerator was very
important to me because I used to download lots of
Linux CDs, the patch was then to let the http kio set
the end range of what would it get, I dunno if KGet
ever make use of it (at that time it simply closed the
connection on end). I stopped developing doka as
KGet was doing pretty much what I needed.

Q: How much time do you spend working on KDE?

A: It depends a lot on what I have to do on my work,
since a support job not always require you doing
stuff sometimes I can spend the whole day,
sometimes I can't do nothing :P

Q: What keeps you motivated?

A: As Linus once said "free software is all about selfishness",
so I also think my motivation is my own needs, once I find
something is missing or broken I want to fill this gap,
I have a bunch of apps that I miss but sadly I don't have time,
and to delegate a task you need people that not only
share your frustrations but also that knows how to code...

Q: What are some of your future goals for your involvement with KDE?

A: Make more and more projects to have the best DE ever,
there are several apps that I find that are good or sometimes
not so much but that doesn't fit well my needs, most of the
changes I want to do are too intrusive and from past experience
showed big changes are too hard to do, so I somehow feel it's
easier to just start yet another...

Q: What are some of your hobbies and intrests outside of KDE?

A: hmm well I'm trying to build a company but I'm not finding
much motivation these days, I have lots of stuff done
but also a lot is missing and the result is not immediate...

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Claudia Rauch | 2 Apr 2013 13:07
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Help for Linuxtag 2013 in Berlin wanted :)

Hi all,

I just got the confirmation that KDE has once again been accepted for
a project booth at Linuxtag in Berlin [1],  22-25 May 2013.

However, we need people to staff the booth :). So, if you have time
and are interested in showcasing KDE at a cool event, please add
yourself to http://community.kde.org/Promo/Events/Linuxtag/2013.

Cheers,
Claudia

[1] http://www.linuxtag.org/2013/en.html

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David Edmundson | 28 Mar 2013 16:56
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Re: Promo article for KDE Telepathy 0.6

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Carl Symons <carlsymons <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> Good to hear from you.
>
> I am headed out of town tomorrow. I'll wait to see if any other promo
> person does something with this. If not, I can do it.
>
> You write:
> We would like an article on the dot in time just after the release.
>
> With the release planned for 31 March, what does this mean specifically?

It means I can't type.

I meant
"in time for the release or just after".

i.e ideally we would like this sometime soon, but definitely not
before the 31st of March.
Though I appreciate this is now rather short notice.

David

>
> Carl
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:18 AM, David Edmundson
> <david <at> davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
>> On the 31st March we are releasing 0.6.0 of KDE Telepathy the IM client.
>>
>> We would like an article on the dot in time just after the release.
>>
>> I've attached some draft text for the article, but feel free to
>> modify/rewrite everything :)
>>
>> The text is basically the same as my blog post about the beta:
>> http://www.sharpley.org.uk/node/60 but I've changed it from being
>> written in first person to third person to better suit being on the
>> dot.
>>
>> Note that it contains two FIXME items that need changing before
>> release, referring to checking the download location. Please check
>> with Martin Klapetek or myself before publishing.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> David Edmundson
>>
>>
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