I just finished reading Thom Holwerda’s hilarious article on OSnews about being paid to use Windows 11 for a month from the perspective of being a “switcher” moving away from Linu…

This is a weekly update from my Google Summer of Code 2026 project with KDE, improving effect widgets in Kdenlive, a free and open source video editor.
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The openQA-based testing system has recently been integrated into KDE Linux (hooray!), and I thought it was about time I did a little write-up.
The nature of KDE Linux, in which the whole system ships as a single signed image rather than a pile of packages…

GSoC 2026 • digiKam • Post 2: Inference, Bugs, and the Build

The Akademy 2026 Program is now live!
This year’s Akademy will take place in Graz, hosted at the Graz University of Technology, both in person and online.
Akademy starts with a welcome event on Friday, 18 September, followed by two full days of talks on Saturday…

A summary of my three-part analysis of the EU Open Source Strategy on Tagoross. Real strengths, real design flaws. The sovereignty definition does not fit open source. The legislation, CADA and Chi…

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Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!

This blog is about the progress made in week 6 and week 7 of my GSoC contribution journey.

Last weekend I joined an in-person workshop at HTW Berlin for discussing topics around mapping indoor spaces in OpenStreetMap.

A hotfix release of kf6-core24 to work around a Snapcraft 9 bug that was breaking Qt-based snaps, plus an update on current Debian packaging and snap development work.

Consider this hypothetical: An operating system (OS) ships version 1.5 of a piece of software. Meanwhile, the latest version of that software is 3.0. A user on that OS experiences an issue in versi…

The Qt folks have taken inspiration in our successful KDE Goals and are starting the Qt Project Goals. The idea is to select goals that help...

Read on for a look at development news and the Krita-Artists forum's featured artwork from last month.
Development Report Developments in Krita Plus Dependencies have been updated in the Qt5 builds (Krita 5.3.x). This updates many libraries Krita depends…

Tuesday I arrived at Nuremberg after a very long travel and nearly no sleep, so I didn’t go to the “warming up” party in the bar, but instead met up with C. and we went to a Balka…