Notices by kde@mastodon.technology, page 45

More sponsors than ever will be supporting and attending Akademy this year. Find out why it's important and how we did it.

https://dot.kde.org/2018/08/07/state-akademy-sponsorship

Our Usability & Productivity updates have reached their 30th edition.

That's 30 weeks of improvements and exciting new features in KDE software. Here's to many more! #KDEgoals ⚙️

https://pointieststick.wordpress.com/2018/08/04/this-week-in-usability-productivity-part-30/

Elvis Angelaccio will be very busy during #Akademy2018. He wants to visit the city, clean up kdelibs4 in Dolphin, catch up with what's going on with the Polkit patches in KIO, and attend his first General Meeting. Come and join him in Vienna!

https://eang.it/i-am-going-to-akademy/

Blue Systems is not only a long time Gold sponsor of Akademy, but also sponsors the work of many of KDE's top developers. Plasma, the Mycroft plasmoid, KDE Neon, and many others, are just a few of the projects Blue Systems supports. Thank you Blue Systems for your generous contributions to KDE!

https://akademy.kde.org/2018/sponsors

Something not to miss at #Akademy2018: @lays doing live 3D printing demos with Atelier, the graphical application for managing 3D printers.

https://conf.kde.org/en/Akademy2018/public/events/38

@brainblasted @Tinerion You can do that with Mycroft. It is not easy, and some things may be limited if you stop Mycroft from accessing third party data or services (like Wolfram Alpha and weather information), but it is open source through and through, and it can be done.

https://community.mycroft.ai/t/self-hosted-server/1266/4

Caio Jordão Carvalho is going to #Akademy2018. He will be talking about his experience during the Season of KDE and Google Summer of Code working on the KDE Partition Manager (allows you to easily manage disk partitions) and Calamares (a distribution independent system installer).

https://carvalho.site/2018/07/13/going-to-akademy-2018/

Continuing on the topic of AI, Mycroft AI is also sponsoring and has helped integrate their cool and open source AI assistant into KDE's Plasma desktop. Come and meet them at #Akademy2018!

https://akademy.kde.org/2018/sponsors

How KDE Plasma extensions affect the stability and safety of a running Plasma system

https://blogs.kde.org/2018/08/02/engineering-plasma-extensions-and-stability-%E2%80%94-present-and-future

One of the hot topics at #Akademy2018 will be AIs applied to personal assistants. Volker Krause will be talking about how to build a free and open travel assistant in his talk "KDE, when's my flight?".

https://conf.kde.org/en/Akademy2018/public/events/22

One of the hot topics at #Akademy2018 will be AIs applied to personal assistants. @VolkerKrause will be talking about how to build a free and open travel assistant in his talk "KDE, when's my flight?".

https://conf.kde.org/en/Akademy2018/public/events/22

The good people at The Qt Company are the creators and developers of the Qt libraries, frameworks and development tools. They are also Gold sponsors of #Akademy2018. Thanks for helping make #Akademy2018 awesome!

https://akademy.kde.org/2018/sponsors

Stefan Derkits tells the story of how Vienna became the host of #Akademy2018 in his "I'm going to Akademy!" blog post:

https://stefan.derkits.at/blog/im-going-to-kde-akademy-2018/

More reasons to attend Akademy: Andre, the cartoonist behind "Life Support", will be attending and taking requests.

https://www.angrycane.com.br/en/2018/07/25/interview-with-andre-of-vida-de-suporte-helpdesks-life/

The KDE store needs your help!

Moderators are actively seeking and weeding out spammy or inappropriate products. Lend them a hand by signing up at OpenDesktop and reporting bad content:

https://www.opendesktop.org/register

If you just want to download stuff, KDE Store is here:

https://store.kde.org/

Sneak peek of our new #Plasma 5.14 wallpaper. Tell us how to improve it!

https://kver.wordpress.com/2018/07/21/plasma-5-14-wallpaper-cluster/

We're happy to see #Plasma featured in the Croatian tech magazine VIDI. The article is in Croatian, but we assure you it's a glowing review!

Thanks to the author Kristijan Puljek for spreading the word about our software.

Tell the world you are going to Akademy!

Get your Akademy banner from

https://community.kde.org/Akademy/2018/Badges

Put it on your site or blog, and link it to https://akademy.kde.org/2018.

.@debian is joining KDE's Advisory Board. This means we will be able to better integrate KDE software with all versions of Debian and their derivatives, we will receive valuable feedback, and we will bring both communities closer together in every way.

https://dot.kde.org/2018/07/12/debian-joins-kdes-advisory-board