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Co-Founder of TurtleSec and speaker Partrica Aas will deliver the opening keynote at #Akademy2021

https://patricia.no/

Please note: Session Chair time slots are listed in 4 hour increments but session chairs are to switch per talk session (i.e. 1 hour on screen, 1 hour off screen)If you have any questions please email the Akademy team.

Become part of #Akademy2021! Become a volunteer! Sign up by May 15th and make Akademy happen.

There are perks too! Sign up for three sessions and you'll get a seriously cool T-shirt, along with the undying gratitude of the KDE Community.

More info at https://volunteers.akademy.kde.org

The @krita Foundation, creators and maintainers of KDE's full-featured painting program for artists, start the Krita Fund: help keep the project going with your donations and get badges!

https://fund.krita.org/

#Akademy2021 T-Shirt is here! Order before May 16th to make sure your shirt arrives before Akademy begins on June 18th.

Order it now from https://akademy.kde.org/2021/tshirt

Kdenlive's video café starts in 15 minutes. If you like making videos, join us to find out how Kdenlive can help you.

https://meet.kde.org/b/far-uny-2yb

Just released: Plasma 5.21.5 adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes, including to errors that occurred when stopping PipeWire streaming, dragging-and-dropping over panel, and more. Get all the details here:

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.21.5

Jeri Ellsworth, augmented reality visionary, self-made electronics hacker and Queen of Makers, will deliver a keynote at #Akademy2021.

https://www.jeriellsworth.com/

@Blort The mobile version is in very, very early stages of development (i.e.: The answer is "no, not yet").

Kontact (KDE's suite of apps for email, address books, notes, and calendars) gets better Autocrypt support, KMail gets an *experimental* mobile version, and the whole suite gets many bugfixes and improvements. Read all about it here:

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2021/05/01/kde-pim-march-april-2021.html

This Week in KDE: A cleaner Events Calendar, easier to read dictionary definitions for KRunner, and a smorgasbord of advanced Wayland features:

https://pointieststick.com/2021/04/30/this-week-in-kde-support-for-gpu-hot-plug-and-freesync-and-so-much-more/

Meet Kate, the Cyber Woodpecker, the new mascot of KDE's Advanced Text Editor:

https://kate-editor.org/post/2021/2021-04-28-lets-welcome-kate-the-cyber-woodpecker/

Feeling adventurous? Try out @mauiproject's Beta Package apps for Android. Get to test the bleeding edge versions of the Index file manager, Vvave music player, Clip video player, Nota text editor, and many, many more.

https://nxos.org/maui/maui-weekly-11

KDE is on everything, from NASA's and CERN's workstations to... Animatronic tails? Yep, on those too. Check out miTail, your own personal animatronic tail controlled by a KDE-powered Android app.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thetailcompany/mitail-the-moving-tail-youve-always-wanted

LabPlot introduces Color Maps and Conditional Formatting in the spreadsheet, helping you visualize your data more clearly:

https://labplot.kde.org/2021/04/29/color-maps-and-conditional-formatting/

If you would like to learn more about color maps and how they help visualize large amounts of data, check out the work of Fabio Crameri:

https://www.fabiocrameri.ch/

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* a dock that allows you to import videos from online resources directly into your project

* the typewriter and strobe effects, for more dramatic story-telling

* zoombars to help you zoom in easier to sections of the timeline

* and, behind the scenes, developers are preparing Kdenlive for Qt6 and MLT7.

Want to unleash your inner David Lynch? Kdenlive is the video editor for that.

https://kdenlive.org/en/2021/04/kdenlive-21-04-released/

Kdenlive, KDE's advanced video editor, comes with so many new features, that there are too many to list here. But here's a small sample:

* check out the Speech-to-text functionality, for generating subtitles automatically

* effect zones that let you apply effects to only parts of a clip

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https://kdenlive.org/en/2021/04/kdenlive-21-04-released/

Call for Participation for Akademy closes Sunday! Send in your talks!https://akademy.kde.org/2021/cfp

The Call for Participation deadline is coming up this weekend! Submit your talk now before it’s too late.

https://akademy.kde.org/2021/cfp

The @kde #PlasmaMobile team has been hard at work making existing apps easier and more fun to use, and adding brand new ones to the catalog. Discover what's new with NeoChat, Elisa, Plasmatube, DayKountdown, Kolibri and many more great apps for your phone.

https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/04/27/plasma-mobile-update-march-april/