Notices by KDE (kde@mastodon.technology), page 2

KDE helped NASA reach Mars and now we're helping James Cameron reach Pandora in the #Avatar sequels. Lisa Su of AMD shows off video effects software running on KDE Plasma. #CES2019

https://youtu.be/bibZyMjY2K4?t=1975

The KDE community wishes you all a very Konqi New Year!

KDE devs will soon be receiving the Librem 5 dev kits. Look forward to Plasma Mobile running on the hardware chosen for @Purism 's open and privacy-protecting mobile phone.

https://puri.sm/posts/2018-devkits-are-shipping/

Applications 18.12 is out. Now you can annotate PDFs with a "typewriter" tool in Okular, see previews of ODF documents in Dolphin, and show emojis in Konsole. Apps 18.12 with many more features and improvements will be landing in your distro soon.

https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-18.12.0.php?site_locale=en

Plasma Mobile coming to a Necuno phone 📱 near you! Check out the new open device that'll install KDE's mobile environment:

https://dot.kde.org/2018/11/29/necuno-mobile-open-phone-plasma-mobile

We are proud to have played our small part in InSight's #MarsLanding. Congratulations NASA!

Black Friday deals on ALL KDE SOFTWARE! 100% OFF! (also tomorrow, and the day after that, and the next day, and the next one after that too, and ...)

https://www.kde.org/applications/

Okular is a fantastic KDE app that lets you view and annotate various document formats, including PDFs.

Did we mention it is fantastic? Well, you can help us make it even better!

Join us tomorrow, November 17, for an all-day bug-hunting session in #kde-bugs IRC channel on freenode.

More details about the Okular Bug Day here:
https://andrewcrouthamel.wordpress.com/2018/11/14/kde-bugsquad-okular-bug-day-on-november-17th-2018/

KDE Connect developers are back with more features, more goodies and more improvements so that you can better integrate your mobile with your desktop.

https://nicolasfella.wordpress.com/2018/11/04/kde-connect-new-stuff-0x3/

On Sunday #KDEis22 🎂. How are you going to celebrate? Whatever you do, send us your photos or videos!

1.- Friends, toast to KDE 🍻

2.- Make KDE-themed cake, eat it 🍰

3.- Make a video telling everyone why I 💖 KDE (share it with us!)

4.- Other... (what?)

Ramón Miranda, artist and @krita brush-designer supreme, will be live-streaming a Krita painting session tomorrow night at 20:00 CEST. Stay tuned for the link.

KAlgebra, KDE's scientific calculator that allows you to plot 2D and 3D functions and let's you work with trigonometric functions and derivatives (among many other things), gets featured in Linux Journal:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/look-kdes-kalgebra

The count down to Plasma 5.14 starts today. Get Plasma 5.14 beta now and try out new features such as the Display Configuration widget, Discover's firmware upgrade system, and Kwin's smoother desktop effects.

WARNING: Beta software is for testers. Expect rough edges. Submit bug reports.

https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.13.90.php

KDE is looking to employ a technical documentation analyst to revise and advise on improvements to KDE's technical documentation, with a special focus on documentation that will introduce new developers to the project.

All details are here:

https://ev.kde.org/resources/documentationsupport-callforproposals.pdf

#Akademy2018 in the podcastphere: Thomas Pfeiffer, KDE e.V. board member, summarises what went down on Linux Unplugged (minute 47 and onwards):

https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/126811/updates-from-the-source-linux-unplugged-263/

and Alan Pope from Canonical talks about his first Akademy experience (starts at the 4 minute mark):

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2018/08/23/s11e24-mr-penumbras-24-hour-bookstore/

Weekend project: Install and learn all about Kdenlive, KDE's advanced video-editor. Check out what's new and what's coming in the next few versions and get editing your next blockbuster!

https://dot.kde.org/2018/05/12/kdenlive-sprint-movie

@Krita 4.0 is here!

A new brush set from @davidrevoy SVG support on vector layers, combined brushes, Python scripting and the spanking new Colorize Mask Tool makes this one of the most exciting releases yet.

https://dot.kde.org/2018/03/22/5-things-look-forward-krita-40

Our #Akademy2018 call for speakers closes tomorrow at midnight. There's still time to submit your proposal!

You can talk about your favorite KDE applications, tell us how Plasma improved your workflow (and your life :)), or speak about your experiences as a KDE contributor.

More ideas and instructions here:
https://akademy.kde.org/2018/cfp

We always encourage you to report and triage bugs, and now we've made the process even easier. You can start triaging bugs as soon as you create a Bugzilla account!

https://pointieststick.wordpress.com/2018/02/21/its-now-much-easier-to-be-a-bug-triager/

You don't need to be a programmer to do this, so why wait? Become a KDE contributor today ????

Our PDF reader Okular supports the digital equivalent of sticky notes. We'd like to improve that feature.

Join us as part of #GSoC 2018, and make those sticky notes pop!

Here's the proposal for this Google Summer of Code project:

https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/Ideas#Add_support_for_showing_and_adding_replies_to_sticky_notes

Would you like to work on something else? We have plenty more proposals on that list!

Choose a different one, or submit your own - the deadline is March 27.

More information here:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/