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From: Sandro S. Andrade <sandroandrade () kde ! org>
Date: 2016-10-03 20:51:11
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- <p>TBD</p>
+ <p>Over nineteen years producing high \
quality free software, strewing open culture, and creating a thriving community, KDE \
has become a huge umbrella organization supporting all sort of FOSS-related projects. \
As a consequence, an even more inclusive, diverse, and open community has grown, with \
opportunities we couldn't have envisioned some years ago.</p> </div>
</div>
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- <p></p>
+ <p>In this edition's feature article, we \
present four stories of KDE incubated projects: WikiToLearn, GCompris, KXStitch, and \
Kdenlive. Some of these projects have already been developed for many years and, by \
being incubated in KDE, they found a proper way to ensure its continuity and relief \
original contributors from some administrative tasks already provided by KDE, like \
translation and release/distribution.</p> </div>
</div>
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- <p></p>
+ <p>The report continues with a summary of \
KDE e.V. supported activities, in terms of both developer sprints and trade shows and \
community events where KDE representatives has been attending, presenting talks, or \
organizing. The report finishes welcoming twelve new KDE e.V. members and providing a \
brief summary of the sysadmin activities undertoken in this period.</p> + \
</div> + </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="row">
+ <div class="col-sm-4 wow fadeInDown" \
data-wow-duration="1000ms" data-wow-delay="450ms"> + \
<div class="service-info"> + <p>An important \
step of such a movement towards an umbrella organization is the KDE Incubator program \
‒ presented at this edition's feature article. The KDE Incubator has been \
responsible for providing all required guidance to already existing FOSS projects in \
their way to join KDE community, benefit from our social-technical infrastructure, \
and help us to create a better world with the power of open knowledge.</p> + \
</div> + </div>
+ <div class="col-sm-4 wow fadeInDown" \
data-wow-duration="1000ms" data-wow-delay="450ms"> + \
<div class="service-info"> + <p>For other more \
youthful projects, KDE has been the place were they found the motivation, energy, and \
support to overcome the initial (often hard) barriers we face until the project is \
able to stand on its own feet and starts to exhibit its own contribution dynamics. We \
hope this feature article may serve as inspiration for many other incubated projects \
to come and also provide a glimpse on how open and receptive KDE is.</p> + \
</div> + </div>
+ <div class="col-sm-4 wow fadeInDown" \
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<div class="service-info"> + <p>Enjoy the \
reading!</p> <br/>
<p><strong>Sandro Andrade</strong><br/>for \
the KDE e.V. Board of Directors</p> </div>
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<div class="col-sm-12">
<div class="about-info wow fadeInDown" \
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- <p>Over the past year or so KDE has taken a new approach \
to projects joining our "Umbrella" Namely the KDE Incubator. This new program aims to \
help projects with similar ideals to our existing projects join us with all that that \
implies. The incubator couples a sponsor from the KDE community with a plan to \
move/migrate a project into the systems that KDE provides as a community including \
mailing lists, websites, code repositories, etc. One of the main responsibilities of \
the sponsor is to help the project's members become part of the KDE community itself \
by guiding in any way required and helping with source code migration, mailing list \
migration and figuring out the other aspects of how the KDE community works.</p> + \
<p>Over the past year or so KDE has taken a new approach to projects joining our \
"umbrella", namely the KDE Incubator. This new program aims to help projects with \
similar ideals to our existing projects join us with all that that implies. The \
incubator couples a sponsor from the KDE community with a plan to move/migrate a \
project into the systems that KDE provides as a community, including mailing lists, \
websites, code repositories, etc. One of the main responsibilities of the sponsor is \
to help the project's members become part of the KDE community itself by guiding in \
any way required and helping with source code migration, mailing list migration and \
figuring out the other aspects of how the KDE community works.</p> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-7">
<div class="about-info wow fadeInDown" \
data-wow-duration="1000ms" data-wow-delay="450ms">
- <p>One of the first projects to be incubated was \
Wiki2learn (Formerly WikiFM). It has also been one of the slower projects to migrate \
fully, but at this years Akademy has had some exposure that should help it grow \
further. WikiToLearn (until a few days ago also known as WikiFM) wants to change the \
way we create and deliver educational content to students, developers, and learners \
in general. We have three core objectives. Disseminating free, open and easily \
accessible scientific knowledge. Building a learning and publishing platform for \
high-quality content, created collaboratively. Integrating and collecting many \
existing resources on the different subjects, found both online and offline. \
WikiToLearn is a platform where students, learners and key people in the academia can \
collaboratively create refine and re-assemble notes, lecture notes or even whole text \
books, tailored precisely to their needs. Our philosophy is in two simple sentences: \
"Knowledge only grows if shared" and we want you to "Stand on the shoulders of \
giants!".</p> + <p>One of the first projects to be \
incubated was <a href="http://wikitolearn.org" target="_blank">WikiToLearn</a> \
(formerly WikiFM). It has also been one of the slower projects to migrate fully but, \
at this year, Akademy has had some exposure that should help it grow further. \
WikiToLearn wants to change the way we create and deliver educational content to \
students, developers, and learners in general. It has three core objectives: \
<i>i)</i> disseminating free, open and easily accessible scientific knowledge; \
<i>ii)</i> building a learning and publishing platform for high-quality content, \
created collaboratively; and <i>iii)</i> integrating and collecting many existing \
resources on the different subjects, found both online and offline. WikiToLearn is a \
platform where students, learners and key people in the academia can collaboratively \
create refine and re-assemble notes, lecture notes or even whole text books, tailored \
precisely to their needs. WikiToLearn philosophy is in two simple sentences: \
"knowledge only grows if shared" and we want you to "stand on the shoulders of \
giants!".</p> </div>
</div>
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<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-12">
<div class="about-info wow fadeInDown" \
data-wow-duration="1000ms" data-wow-delay="450ms">
- <p>The effort was started as a purely personal project \
by a few students of the University of Milano-Bicocca, to collaboratively write \
lecture notes and free textbooks for our studies. In December 2013 we decided that we \
could tackle a global challenge: not only change our study career, but provide free \
and open textbooks to the whole world, created with the help of the \
best
- scientists in the world. For this challenge we needed \
big shoulders: a worldwide community with a track of positive stories of taking a \
project and leveraging it to success: KDE. We therefore decided to be the first group \
to join the KDE family through the incubation process. KDE helped us reaching a \
visibility we could only dream of: with its help we are now starting experimentations \
in a few universities around the globe, and key scientists from institutions such as \
CERN, Fermilab or Stanford are now daily contributors. Check out <a \
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVclxeOLBd0" target="_blank">the official \
announcement</a> at Akademy 2015] (reccomended) or visit the <a \
href="http://www.wikitolearn.org" target="_blank">WikiToLearn homepage</a> to know \
more.</p> + <p>The effort was started as a purely personal \
project by a few students of the <a href="http://www.unimib.it" \
target="_blank">University of Milano-Bicocca</a>, to collaboratively write lecture \
notes and free textbooks for their studies. In December 2013, they decided that they \
could tackle a global challenge: not only change their study career, but provide free \
and open textbooks to the whole world, created with the help of the best scientists \
in the world. For this challenge they needed big shoulders: a worldwide community \
with a track of positive stories of taking a project and leveraging it to success: \
KDE. They therefore decided to be the first group to join the KDE family through the \
incubation process. KDE helped reaching a visibility they could only dream of: with \
this help they are now starting experimentations in a few universities around the \
globe, and key scientists from institutions such as <a href="https://home.cern/" \
target="_blank">CERN</a>, <a href="http://www.fnal.gov/" target="_blank">Fermilab</a> \
or <a href="https://www.stanford.edu/" target="_blank">Stanford</a> are now daily \
contributors. Check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVclxeOLBd0" \
target="_blank">the official announcement</a> at Akademy 2015 or visit the <a \
href="http://www.wikitolearn.org" target="_blank">WikiToLearn homepage</a> to know \
more.</p> </div>
</div>
</div>
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</div>
<div class="col-sm-7">
<div class="about-info wow fadeInDown" \
data-wow-duration="1000ms" data-wow-delay="450ms">
- <p>Proceeding with the next story about the KDE \
Incubator with the story of GCompris. GCompris is a high quality educational software \
suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. It started in 2000 \
using the Gtk+ toolkit and was part of the Gnome project. In order to address users \
willing to run GCompris on their tablets, a full rewrite has been iniitated in 2014 \
using Qt Quick. GCompris had the chance to be accepted by KDE and followed the \
incubation stage for about a year. It has now been accepted as an official KDE \
project in its extragear section. Being a community project, there was a need to find \
a new one focused on Qt technology to help us continue the development the way we \
like it. GCompris targets schools and parents all over the world and it is mandatory \
to provide it in the language they speak. Only a large community like KDE can manage \
such a daunting task in the long run. GCompris also benefits from many KDE \
developers. Since January 2015 a binary version is avalaible on the Google Play Store \
for Android. Thanks to the nice multi-platform support coming with Qt, it will be \
provided on other platforms within the year to come.</p> + \
<p>The next story about the KDE Incubator is about GCompris. <a \
href="http://gcompris.net" target="_blank">GCompris</a> is a high quality educational \
software suite comprising numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. It started \
in 2000 using the <a href="http://www.gtk.org/" target="_blank">Gtk+ toolkit</a> and \
was part of the Gnome project. In order to address users willing to run GCompris on \
their tablets, a full rewrite has been iniitated in 2014 using Qt Quick. GCompris had \
the chance to be accepted by KDE and followed the incubation stage for about a year. \
It has now been accepted as an official KDE project in its extragear section. Being a \
community project, there was a need to find a new one focused on Qt technology to \
help continuing the development the way we like it. GCompris targets schools and \
parents all over the world and it is mandatory to provide it in the language they \
speak. Only a large community like KDE can manage such a daunting task in the long \
run. GCompris also benefits from many KDE developers. Since January 2015 a binary \
version is avalaible on the Google Play Store for Android. Thanks to the nice \
multi-platform support coming with Qt, it will be provided on other platforms within \
the year to come.</p> </div>
</div>
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<div class="col-sm-7">
<div class="about-info wow fadeInDown" \
data-wow-duration="1000ms" data-wow-delay="450ms">
- <p>Continuing the series about KDE Incubator lets \
discover another project that went through the incubation process. Another project to \
be incubated early on that went very quickly was KXStitch which is a cross-stitch \
editing and creation application for linux. "In May 2014 I was contacted by Jeremy \
Whiting, a contributing developer to KDE, to see if I would be interested in \
submitting the KXStitch application to the KDE Incubator. KXStitch is an editor for \
counted cross stitch patterns and had already been in development for more than ten \
years as an independent KDE application. It was hosted on Sourceforge and as the main \
developer I was supported by a number of people who had provided ideas, testing, bug \
fixes and some translations. The KDE Incubator is an effort to help such applications \
to be migrated into the KDE infrastructure. This is something that I had already \
been considering, so it was an ideal opportunity to make that transition. It began \
with Jeremy announcing KXStitch as a candidate on the Incubator wiki page and the \
creation of another wiki page for the project itself. This page includes some \
information about what the application is and includes a couple of checklists \
detailing the activities that need to be completed to manage the migration into the \
KDE infrastructure.</p> + <p>Continuing the series about \
KDE Incubator, lets discover another project that went through the incubation \
process. <a href="https://userbase.kde.org/KXStitch" target="_blank">KXStitch</a> is \
a cross-stitch editing and creation application for linux. In May 2014, the KXStitch \
original developer was contacted by Jeremy Whiting to see if he would be interested \
in submitting the KXStitch application to the KDE Incubator. KXStitch is an editor \
for counted cross stitch patterns and had already been in development for more than \
ten years as an independent KDE application. It was hosted on Sourceforge and was \
supported by a number of people who had provided ideas, testing, bug fixes and some \
translations. The KDE Incubator is an effort to help such applications to be migrated \
into the KDE infrastructure. This is something that the original developer had \
already been considering, so it was an ideal opportunity to make that transition. It \
began with Jeremy announcing KXStitch as a candidate on the Incubator wiki page and \
the creation of another wiki page for the project itself. This page includes some \
information about what the application is and includes a couple of checklists \
detailing the activities that need to be completed to manage the migration into the \
KDE infrastructure.</p> </div>
</div>
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<div class="col-sm-12">
<div class="about-info wow fadeInDown" \
data-wow-duration="1000ms" data-wow-delay="450ms">
- <p>The first checklist is to ensure the application is \
ready to begin the incubation process, i.e. it complies with the KDE manifesto and \
that it is in active development. From this a a plan can be devised for the \
migration, something which Jeremy, as the sponsor, provided invaluable help and \
advice pointing me to the relevant people and documentation that I needed to get set \
up. The second checklist covers the activities of this plan which, for me, involved \
setting up a developer account, git repository, mailing lists, web site, wiki and bug \
tracking. A number of these activities required raising tickets with the system \
administrators, something that was easily done through the ticketing system and were \
completed promptly. The administrators also provided help in getting my code \
imported into its new home in playground/graphics. Having a developer account created \
also allowed me access to create wiki pages on the KDE community site. After the \
initial import several people have done a lot of work fixing the documentation and a \
couple of bugs. The translations have been incorporated into the rest of KDE's l10n \
repositories and translations have been done in a lot more languages.</p> + \
<p>The first thing is to ensure the application is ready to begin the incubation \
process, i.e. that it complies with the KDE manifesto and that it is under active \
development. From this, a a plan can be devised for the migration, something which \
Jeremy, as the sponsor, provided invaluable help and advice pointing to the relevant \
people and documentation needed to get set up. The second checklist covers the \
activities of this plan, which involves setting up a developer account, git \
repository, mailing lists, web site, wiki and bug tracking. A number of these \
activities required raising tickets with the system administrators, something that \
was easily done through the ticketing system and were completed promptly. The \
administrators also provided help in getting the code imported into its new home in \
playground/graphics. Having a developer account created also allowed access to create \
wiki pages on the KDE community site. After the initial import, several people have \
done a lot of work fixing the documentation and a couple of bugs. The translations \
have been incorporated into the rest of KDE's l10n repositories and translations have \
been done in a lot more languages.</p> </div>
<div class="about-info wow fadeInDown" \
data-wow-duration="1000ms" data-wow-delay="450ms">
- <p>As KXStitch was already a mature application, \
playground was intended as a short term place whilst the early integration work was \
done. At the end of May, KXStitch was moved into kdereview with the intention of \
moving to extragear/graphics. A number of people had a look over it and provided \
valuable feedback which prompted some updates fixing a few issues. At the end of \
June, KXStitch moved to its permanent home in extragear/graphics where it continues \
development and eventual conversion to KF5. I would like to thank Jeremy for his help \
and support during the incubation process which turned out to be simple and \
straightforward, and the rest of the community for their contributions for getting \
KXStitch integrated into KDE.</p> + <p>As KXStitch was \
already a mature application, playground was intended as a short term place whilst \
the early integration work was done. At the end of May, KXStitch was moved into \
kdereview with the intention of moving to extragear/graphics. A number of people had \
a look over it and provided valuable feedback which prompted some updates fixing a \
few issues. At the end of June, KXStitch moved to its permanent home in \
extragear/graphics where it continues development and eventual conversion to KF5.</p> \
</div> </div>
</div>
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</div>
<div class="col-sm-7">
<div class="about-info wow fadeInDown" \
data-wow-duration="1000ms" data-wow-delay="450ms">
- <p>To wrap up the KDE Incubator success stories lets see \
a bit about Kdenlive. Kdenlive, one of the rare free-as-in-speech video editors, \
started its life more than 12 years back using KDE3 libraries.
- All that time it was mostly the effort of a single man, \
coding functionalities, fixing bugs, publishing releases, administering and filling \
the website, whithout any real link with the KDE people. Very good contributions were \
coming from day to day, but no team was built for a long term, a situation not good \
for motivation... and that proved risky: when Jean-Baptiste Mardelle, the main \
developer, suddently "disappeared" in 2013 for personal reasons, the community was on \
hold during several month, and stuck with some technical locks. We had to track him \
like any "Giant Spy" and disturb his rest to get the project running until his \
return! This learned us the lesson, and when Mario Fux present us the KDE manifesto \
it was exactly answering our problem.</p> + <p>To wrap up \
the KDE Incubator success stories, lets see a bit about Kdenlive. <a \
href="https://kdenlive.org/" target="_blank">Kdenlive</a>, one of the rare \
free-as-in-speech video editors, started its life more than 12 years back using KDE3 \
libraries. + All that time it was mostly the effort of a \
single man, coding functionalities, fixing bugs, publishing releases, administering \
and filling the website, whithout any real link with the KDE people. Very good \
contributions were coming from day to day, but no team was built for a long term, a \
situation not good for motivation... and that proved risky: when Jean-Baptiste \
Mardelle, the main developer, suddently "disappeared" in 2013 for personal reasons, \
the community was on hold during several month, and stuck with some technical locks. \
We had to track him like any "Giant Spy" and disturb his rest to get the project \
running until his return! This learned us the lesson, and when Mario Fux present him \
the KDE manifesto it was exactly answering our problem.</p> </div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-12">
<div class="about-info wow fadeInDown" \
data-wow-duration="1000ms" data-wow-delay="450ms">
- <p>Kdenlive had already started to use KDE git, forums \
and translation power after its 1st contact with community, already in Randa in 2011. \
Completing the incubation process in 2014 made us to fully benefit from all offered \
helps... Transferring the website (with mail-lists) to the KDE sysadmin team was a \
great relief for the overbooked non-specialists we are, and joining KDE Applications \
a few months ago lightened us from the releasing tasks (putting the code in good \
shape 4 times a year instead of 1, sticking to deadlines, perparing archives etc). It \
is stated everywhere that KDE is much more than a libraries set or a technical \
infrastructure: it is a community. Kdenlive needed to experience it. Now that we've \
been to Randa Meetings and Akademy, then we understand why it is worth spending some \
money to get to exchange with people in real life, over focused periods: it greatly \
boosts motivation (smileys can't beat real smiles), helps us build a clearer vision \
for the future (I'm not developing for myself only, but can't satisfy everyone: which \
focus to take?), and offers opportunity to build bridges with other applications \
(want to work with drawn animations? Hey, Krita is doing that!). These contacts with \
many different people - designers - artists - project managers - users - who are \
contributing to KDE are also a very valuable feedback and source of ideas to make our \
project evolve in exciting directions.</p>
- </div>
- <div class="about-info wow fadeInDown" \
data-wow-duration="1000ms" data-wow-delay="450ms">
- <p>Kdenlive had raised money only in 2013 (to fund a \
huge refactoring task... that is only coming out now), but we had refused donations \
in other occasions as we were not sure to be able to fairly use that money... Now we \
have tasted travelling to meetings but can't spend all our pocket money, no problem \
every single cent is accepted ;-)</p> + <p>Kdenlive had \
already started to use KDE git, forums and translation power after its 1st contact \
with community, already in Randa in 2011. Completing the incubation process in 2014 \
made it to fully benefit from all offered helps. Transferring the website (with \
mail-lists) to the KDE sysadmin team was a great relief for the overbooked \
non-specialists and joining KDE Applications a few months ago lightened us from the \
releasing tasks (putting the code in good shape 4 times a year instead of 1, sticking \
to deadlines, perparing archives etc). It is stated everywhere that KDE is much more \
than a libraries set or a technical infrastructure: it is a community. Kdenlive \
needed to experience it. Now that Kdenlive has been to Randa Meetings and Akademy, \
then we understand why it is worth spending some money to get to exchange with people \
in real life, over focused periods: it greatly boosts motivation (smileys can't beat \
real smiles), helps us build a clearer vision for the future, and offers opportunity \
to build bridges with other applications (want to work with drawn animations? Hey, \
Krita is doing that!). These contacts with many different people - designers, \
artists, project managers, users - who are contributing to KDE are also a very \
valuable feedback and source of ideas to make our project evolve in exciting \
directions.</p> </div>
</div>
</div>
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</div>
<div class="col-sm-6 wow fadeInDown" \
data-wow-duration="1000ms" data-wow-delay="450ms"> <div class="service-info">
- <p>We developed some stories with the form \
"as a <user>, I want to <goal>, to <reason>". We then split up into small groups and \
transformed the stories into real tasks that went into a big "to-do" column. One by \
one, we moved them to "in progress" and finally to the "done" column. Our objective \
was get every task of every story into the last column by the end of the sprint. \
Working, working and working, the days passed by, while a silent enemy was slithering \
in the house and making the work harder: The Cough. In the beginning there was just \
one Infector and everyone else survived, protected with strong immune defenses. One \
night we realized that our project was being blessed with a sign from the gods—The \
Red Supermoon. We went out between 2 and 6 AM to see the lunar eclipse (and to do \
more brainstorming), floating in some natural pools with thermal water. It was a \
wonderful experience, but the day after everyone was ill.</p> + \
<p>We developed some stories with the form "as a <user>, I want to \
<goal>, to <reason>". We then split up into small groups and transformed \
the stories into real tasks that went into a big "to-do" column. One by one, we moved \
them to "in progress" and finally to the "done" column. Our objective was get every \
task of every story into the last column by the end of the sprint. Working, working \
and working, the days passed by, while a silent enemy was slithering in the house and \
making the work harder: the Cough. In the beginning there was just one infector and \
everyone else survived, protected with strong immune defenses. One night we realized \
that our project was being blessed with a sign from the gods — the Red Supermoon. \
We went out between 2 and 6 AM to see the lunar eclipse (and to do more \
brainstorming), floating in some natural pools with thermal water. It was a wonderful \
experience, but the day after everyone was ill.</p> </div>
</div>
</div>
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data-wow-duration="1000ms" data-wow-delay="450ms"> <div class="service-info">
- <p>On Thursday two special events took \
place. In the afternoon a trip to Zermatt, a rather famous Swiss mountain town only a \
couple of kilometers from Randa, was organized. A couple of local taxi buses drove \
people up to Zermatt, where Mario showed them around and people were able to buy \
various souvenirs and swiss chocolate. Afterwards a hike back to Randa was planned, \
roughly 10 kilometers down through forests and over meadows, following the river \
Vispa back to the house.</p> + <p>On Thursday \
two special events took place. In the afternoon a trip to Zermatt, a rather famous \
Swiss mountain town only a couple of kilometers from Randa, was organized. A couple \
of local taxi buses drove people up to Zermatt, where Mario showed them around and \
people were able to buy various souvenirs and swiss chocolate. Afterwards, a hike \
back to Randa was planned, roughly 10 kilometers down through forests and over \
meadows, following the river Vispa back to the house.</p> </div>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="col-sm-6 wow fadeInDown" \
data-wow-duration="1000ms" data-wow-delay="300ms"> <div class="service-info">
- <p>The meetings altogether were a big \
success, thus we would like to thank all the supporters, sponsors and other people \
and groups who made the event possible. As we pointed out during the fundraiser: It's \
because of these people, hopefully including you, that people from all across the \
globe were able to get a lot of work done and make the software you love even better. \
The participants did not only fly to Switzerland from all across the globe, they also \
were quite a mixed bunch regarding age, background and projects they are working on. \
So if you like the work we are doing and describe below don't hesitate to support us \
and donate. Every meeting tends to start with the arrival of the participants, as did \
the Randa Meetings. Most people arrived by airplane, so either at the Geneva or \
Zurich airport, both of which are basically at the other ends of Switzerland. On the \
second day most of the participants have arrived and had enough sleep so they were \
ready for some work. However, most of the second day was spent on getting to know \
each other, talking with and getting to know the various different groups: digiKam - \
professional photo management; KDE Connect - Connect with your Android devices; \
Multimedia - including Amarok and Kdenlive; PIM - The Kontact Suite; QMLweb - QML in \
the web browser; and the biggest group: Touch&Mobile - to bring Touch to KDE.</p> + \
<p>The meetings altogether were a big success, thus we would like to thank all the \
supporters, sponsors and other people and groups who made the event possible. As we \
pointed out during the fundraiser: It's because of these people, hopefully including \
you, that people from all across the globe were able to get a lot of work done and \
make the software you love even better. The participants did not only fly to \
Switzerland from all across the globe, they also were quite a mixed bunch regarding \
age, background and projects they are working on. So if you like the work we are \
doing and describe below don't hesitate to support us and donate. Every meeting tends \
to start with the arrival of the participants, as did the Randa Meetings. Most people \
arrived by airplane, so either at the Geneva or Zurich airport, both of which are \
basically at the other ends of Switzerland. On the second day most of the \
participants have arrived and had enough sleep so they were ready for some work. \
However, most of the second day was spent on getting to know each other, talking with \
and getting to know the various different groups: digiKam - professional photo \
management; KDE Connect - Connect with your Android devices; Multimedia - including \
Amarok and Kdenlive; PIM - The Kontact Suite; QMLweb - QML in the web browser; and \
the biggest group: Touch&Mobile - to bring touch to KDE.</p> </div>
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- <p>From 7th to 11th October, Kate and \
KDevelop contributors met in Berlin to work on both Kate and KDevelop. The work in \
Kate was mostly spent on fixing bugs, more than 300 bug and wish reports were closed. \
Granted, many of the reports were just old and given our limited manpower we were \
closing many wishes since it is unlikely that old wishes get implemented. Then again, \
we also fixed a lot of bugs that required code changes, and also fine tuning of \
KTextEditor and Kate.</p> + <p>From 7th to \
11th October, Kate and KDevelop contributors met in Berlin to work on both Kate and \
KDevelop. The work in Kate was mostly spent on fixing bugs, more than 300 bugs and \
wish reports were closed. Granted, many of the reports were just old and given our \
limited manpower we were closing many wishes since it is unlikely that old wishes get \
implemented. Then again, we also fixed a lot of bugs that required code changes, and \
also fine tuning of KTextEditor and Kate.</p> </div>
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- <p>At the moment that is not really \
feasible, as things like ui files are not found, xml syntax files are not found and \
so on. I started to solve that issues and at least KTextEditor framework itself \
should now be more or less Windows (and therefore Mac) compatible. But the other \
frameworks will still need love, like KXmlGui not being able to locate its own \
ui_standards.rc. Kate application is now compilable without any strange patches, too, \
on Windows.</p> + <p>At the moment that is not \
really feasible, as things like ui files are not found, xml syntax files are not \
found and so on. Christoph started to solve that issues and at least KTextEditor \
framework itself should now be more or less Windows (and therefore Mac) compatible. \
But the other frameworks will still need love, like KXmlGui not being able to locate \
its own ui_standards.rc. Kate application is now compilable without any strange \
patches, too, on Windows.</p> </div>
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- <p>The fixed bugs are roughly KDE bug \
tracker (yes, the auto-brackets option is back!), besides there are also a lot of \
changes there were not listed in bug reports. We hope the changes are useful to you, \
so be sure to get the KDE Frameworks version 5.16 as soon as it's released. Christoph \
Cullmann fixed many small bugs and reintroduced the automatic brackets completion \
removed by accident in the KDE 4.x -> KF5 transition.</p> + \
<p>The fixed bugs are roughly KDE bug tracker (yes, the auto-brackets option is \
back!), besides there are also a lot of changes there were not listed in bug reports. \
We hope the changes are useful to you, so be sure to get the KDE Frameworks version \
5.16 as soon as it's released. Christoph Cullmann fixed many small bugs and \
reintroduced the automatic brackets completion removed by accident in the transition \
from KDE 4.x to KF5.</p> </div>
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- <p>Dominik Haumann did help us in our bug \
fixing effort, too. At the end of the sprint he started the painful work to review \
and fix the use of hard-coded colors in our highlighting files, work nobody really \
wants to do. Sven Brauch helped to improve my reintroduced bracket completion to be \
not completely dumb.</p> + <p>Dominik Haumann \
did help in the bug fixing effort, too. At the end of the sprint he started the \
painful work to review and fix the use of hard-coded colors in our highlighting \
files, work nobody really wants to do. Sven Brauch helped to improve the reintroduced \
bracket completion to be not completely dumb.</p> </div>
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- <p>Regarding bugs, the new policy for Kate \
will be: wishes that not got any attention since 2 years will be closed, it makes no \
sense to keep them around for ever and it will only make overview about what is \
really wanted impossible. In addition, he tried to get Kate running on Windows. We \
want to have a way to build Kate with a unpatched Qt.</p> + \
<p>Regarding bugs, the new policy for Kate will be: wishes that not got any attention \
since 2 years will be closed, it makes no sense to keep them around for ever and it \
will only make overview about what is really wanted impossible. In addition, we tried \
to get Kate running on Windows. We want to have a way to build Kate with a unpatched \
Qt.</p> </div>
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- <p>As for KDevelop, the focus was on making \
it ready for its 5.0 release, as well as implementing feature such as the new \
concentration mode. It allows for the user to work withoutall the clutter, stripped \
most of the visual stress, so usually we're left with the good old katepart editor, \
with all KDevelop‘s features.</p> + <p>As \
for KDevelop, the focus was on making it ready for its 5.0 release, as well as \
implementing features such as the new concentration mode. It allows for the user to \
work withoutall the clutter, stripped most of the visual stress, so usually we're \
left with the good old katepart editor, with all KDevelop‘s features.</p> </div>
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- <p>Many of you already know that FISL (The \
International Free Software Forum) is one of the biggest FLOSS conferences in the \
world. From 8 to 11 July 2015, 5281 free software passionate people met in Porto \
Alegre (South Brazil) for the 16th FISL edition, enjoying activities such as talks, \
panels, hackathons, workshops, and community meetings. All kinds of FLOSS-related \
topics were in place: development, translation, artwork, education, robotics, \
entrepreneurship, audio-visual, women and gender, politics, academia and research ... \
KDE has a long and memorable history at FISL and it wasn't different this year.</p> + \
<p>Many of you already know that <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/" \
target="_blank">FISL</a> (The International Free Software Forum) is one of the \
biggest FLOSS conferences in the world. From 8 to 11 July 2015, 5281 free software \
passionate people met in Porto Alegre (South Brazil) for the 16th FISL edition, \
enjoying activities such as talks, panels, hackathons, workshops, and community \
meetings. All kinds of FLOSS-related topics were in place: development, translation, \
artwork, education, robotics, entrepreneurship, audio-visual, women and gender, \
politics, academia and research ... KDE has a long and memorable history at FISL and \
it wasn't different this year.</p> </div>
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