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KDE's Supporting Members Newsletter
KDE's Supporting Members Newsletter
As we step into 2025, we want to take a moment to celebrate your invaluable contributions to KDE’s achievements and invite you to continue shaping the future of our community.
In this issue, we extend our warmest wishes for a Happy New Year and reflect on the projects, sprints, and milestones we accomplished in 2024. Together, we will continue to innovate and make technology more inclusive for everyone
KDE Eco invites you to contribute to a more sustainable new year: Are you keeping older, perhaps unsupported hardware alive with KDE Plasma / Free Software? For January tell the world about it on social media with the hashtags #BringItBack #OptGreen #KDEEco. Follow KDE Eco in the Fediverse at @be4foss@floss.social.
This release includes new versions of KDE classics such as Dolphin, our feature-rich file manager and explorer; Kate, the developer-friendly text editor; and Itinerary, a travel assistant that will safely get you to your destination. …and much, much more!
Plasma 6.2 was released with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds three weeks’ worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors.
This update enhances performance, fixes bugs, and modernizes features for a more efficient and stable user experience.
The first release of OptiImage is finally out! OptiImage is a useful image compressor that supports PNG, JPEG, WebP and SVG file types. It doesn’t do the compression itself but uses various tools like
oxipngto do the compression.
Welcome to the new home of "This Week in Plasma"! You can find all the weekly updates here.
Know all about your favorite apps in the "This Week in KDE Apps" series! You can find all the weekly updates here.
KDE neon Rebased on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
During the last quarter, we represented KDE at various events.
LAS 2024 was held in Monterrey, Mexico, marking the first time the event took place outside Europe. It provided a unique opportunity for the global free software community to collaborate and reflect on how to enhance the Linux application ecosystem.
This year, KDE again participated at 38c3, this time as part of the "Bits & Bäume / about: freedom" assembly, next to many similar minded organizations like the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), European Digital Rights (EDRi), OpenStreetMap and more!
Our fundraiser this year encourages you to Support the Good People of Tech! Help us keep doing good work by…
- …making a one-time donation using the donation box!
- …setting up regular periodic donations or becoming a Supporting Member!
- …adopting an App!
GSoC successfully wrapped up, delivering impactful enhancements across multiple KDE projects through collaborative efforts.
Season of KDE (SoK) 2025 has begun. New Year, New Season!
KDE will participate at FOSDEM, so don’t forget to join us in Brussels on 1 & 2 February 2025.