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KDE adds The Open Source Promotion Program to its list of mentorship programs.
Want to learn how to contribute to an Open Source project? Check out our blog post and start writing your project submission now!
https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-03-29-ospp/
#KStars debuts a new documentation site!
A comprehensive resource that helps you to get to know and make the most of KDE's fantastic night sky observatory and astrophotography utility.
At the moment, only English is available. More languages coming soon.
#astronomy #astrophotography #nightSky #education #photography
"This Week in KDE Apps" brings a lot of improvements to your email, calendar and contact apps; devs consider improvements to Dolphin's new navigation bar; new features land in you chat app of choice; and more languages get added to KDE's educational activities.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/24/this-week-in-kde-apps/
This Week in Plasma brings launch menu customizations, better screen recordings, and improvements to Plasma's calculator.
We have simplified KMenuEdit allowing you to customize your launch menu with ease, improved the quality of full-screen recordings with Spectacle, set the "Dim Screen for Administrator Mode" to be switched on by default, and enhanced the accessibility and keyboard navigation of Plasma's Calculator.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/22/this-week-in-plasma-6.4-improvements/
The schedule for conf.kde.in is out!
Explore the KDE community—who they are, what they do, and why it matters, learn about Digital Independence: Your Roadmap to Seamless Self-Hosting, Embracing FOSS in EdTech, and much more.
Check the program here: https://conf.kde.org/event/8/timetable
Don't forget to register: https://conf.kde.org/event/8/registrations/28/
Stay tuned for more updates on what is happening on Day 3.
The new episode of "This Week in KDE Apps" is out covering among other things a massive amount of improvements to KDE's personal information management suite (email, calendar, contacts, etc.), new levels in KDE's educational activity collection GCompris, fixes for Amarok, and digiKam's just released version 8.6.0.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/17/this-week-in-kde-apps/
digiKam, KDE's full-featured photo management software, releases version 8.6.0.
You can look forward to a smarter face management tool, an improved auto-tagging system that identifies elements in your images, fully automatic red-eye removal, and a new image quality feature that classifies images according to their aesthetic quality.
We also fixed 140 bugs!
https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-03-15-8.6.0/_release/_announcement/
Valve's Steam Deck updates to Plasma 6.2.5!
The games console has a slow update cycle to guarantee stability for users, but #Valve announced yesterday that both the #Arch base system and the #Plasma desktop environment are being updated to new preview releases.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/529841158837240756
