KDE Updates on Okular and KEcoLab
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Tips & tricks: handwritten signatures in Okular
Today I'd like to share a tip about Okular, KDE's flagship document reader app that’s eco-certified in Germany and used professionally around the world to secure documents.
Okular has robust support for digitally signing documents using a cryptographic signature, and it's going to become even better soon. But what about signing documents using handwritten signatures, for those who live in places where digital signing hasn't caught on yet?
Now, this is typically the point at which everyone who lives in a place where cryptographic signatures are common will chime in about how handwritten signatures are pointless and insecure. And they may be right, but it doesn't matter because handwritten signatures are still used and considered valid in most of the world. And thankfully for people who live in any such part of the world, Okular turns out to support them pretty well.
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KEcoLab: Remote Energy Measurement Lab
Hello everyone! I am excited to announce my participation in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) with KDE Eco. I will be sharing my journey and progress through a series of blog posts as I work on the exciting project of making remote access a reality for the Energy Measurement Lab at KDAB, Berlin.
About Me
I am Karanjot Singh, a sophomore at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India. I have had the opportunity to work as an LFX Mentee at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (KubeScape) and also as a mentor at Season of KDE 2023. With a keen interest in Free and Open Source projects, I have been actively contributing to the community for several years. My journey with KDE started in 2022 when I was a mentee in KDE’s annual program, Season of KDE. During that program, I collaborated with the KDE Eco project to create Standard Usage Scenarios for measuring software's energy consumption while collecting hardware performance information, such as CPU usage and network traffic. Since then, I have been an active member of this amazing community, and I thoroughly enjoy contributing to it.