KDE: Asahi Linux, Plasma Sprint 2023, Google Summer of Code, and Qt
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Asahi Linux Chooses KDE Plasma, Citing ‘Configurability’
Asahi Linux lead Hector Martin took to Mastodon to explain the decision to use KDE as the default desktop environment (DE), citing its “configurability.”
Asahi Linux is a project aimed at bringing Linux to Apple’s custom silicon chips. The project has chosen KDE Plasma as its default DE due to the degree of customization it offers. As we pointed out in our review of KDE Plasma, the DE is hands-down the most customizeable and powerful available.
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Plasma Sprint 2023 in Augsburg
Finally a sprint again! The 2019 the Plasma Sprint in Valencia was my first in person KDE event and I was hooked instantly. However something mysterious happened in the next years that and in person meet ups stopped happening. While Akademy 2022 happened in person again, a sprint has different atmosphere and I was awesome to see people that couldn’t make Akademy or for whom it was their first sprint. Other attendees have blogged about the sprint as well, check them out too. Either on the planet or over on discuss Carl created a collection of a bunch of them.
So what did I do? Aside from the usual talking, discussion, planing which the others already blogged about. (And of course the live bug investigations on fellow developers’ machines who always seem to attract the weirdest issues.) I am afraid I spent the rest of the time on boring backend stuff.
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KDE & Google Summer of Code 2023
By Benson Muite
This year KDE will mentor 9 projects in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC). GSoC is a program in which contributors new to open source spend between 175 and 350 hours working on an open source project.
Meet the projects and contributors for 2023: [...]
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KDE’s GSoC 2023 Projects Include New Digikam, Kalendar & Krita Features
A swathe of well-known free software projects are taking part in this year's Google Summer of Code, and KDE is among them.
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Qt as a Career – Mapping your own path into coding [Ed: But Qt is proprietary and only one company controls it]
In this series, we'll be bringing you a variety of career stories from people working with Qt.