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The KDE e.V. Quarterly Report is now available for the first quarter of 2009, from January to March. This document includes reports of the board and the working groups about KDE e.V. activities at the beginning of 2009.

This year's Gran Canaria Desktop Summit represented the first time the GNOME and KDE communities have co-located their annual conferences in the same location. 852 free software advocates from 46 countries gathered together last week to discuss and enhance the free desktop experience at the first ever Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. "The Gran Canaria Desktop Summit was a milestone not only for the KDE and GNOME communities, but also for the free desktop in general." said Cornelius Schumacher, president of KDE e.V., "New collaboration efforts were started and existing ones revitalized. We already have seen results for example in the area of the semantic desktop, and on improving the specification processes on freedesktop.org. I'm sure we'll see more results in the near future." The summit accomplished its goal of increasing co-operation between GNOME and KDE to improve the Free Desktop experience. Throughout the conference there were many examples of successful collaboration including shared technologies, community co-operation and growth of the local free software community Read More

On July 7th the general assembly of KDE e.V. was held. A new board was elected. Frank Karlitschek and Celeste Lyn Paul joined after Aaron Seigo and Klaas Freitag leaving the board. Read more...

The KDE e.V. Quarterly Report is now available for July to December 2008. This document includes reports of the board and the working groups about the KDE e.V. activities of the last two quarters of 2008, and future plans.

The inaugural Desktop Summit, uniting the flagship conferences of the GNOME and KDE communities, GUADEC and Akademy, will be held in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain the week of July 3-11, 2009. The conference will be hosted by Cabildo, the local government of Gran Canaria. Read More

Free Software Foundation Europe welcomes the adoption of the Fiduciary Licence Agreement by the K Desktop Environment project. The FLA is a copyright assignment that allows Free Software projects to assign their copyright to single organisation or person. This enables projects to ensure their legal maintainability, including important issues such as preserving the ability to re-license and certainty to have sufficient rights to enforce licences in court. Read More

The KDE e.V. Quarterly Report is now available for January to June 2008. This document includes reports of the board and the working groups about the KDE e.V. activities of the first two quarters of 2008, and future plans.

The KDE e.V. and GNOME Foundation today announced that they will hold their yearly conferences, Akademy and GUADEC in 2009 in Gran Canaria. The conferences will be separate events, but co-located and hosted by the same organizers, the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and its Secretary of Tourism, Technological Innovation and Foreign Trade. Read More

The KDE e.V. Quarterly Report is now available for July to September, and October to December 2007. This document includes reports of the board and the working groups about the KDE e.V. activities of the last two quarters of 2007, and future plans.

The boards of KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foundation have issued a call to co-host Akademy and GUADEC, the flagship conferences of the KDE and GNOME projects respectively, during the Summer of 2009. Read More