KDE, Akademy, Plasma, and Neon

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 13, 2024

• Akademy 2024 - The Akademy of Many Changes

  This year's Akademy in Würzburg, Germany was all about resetting priorities, refocusing goals, and combining individual projects into a final result greater than the sum of its parts.

  A shift — or more accurately a broadening of interest — in the KDE community has been gradually emerging over the past few years, and reached a new peak at this year's event. The conference largely focused on delivering high quality, cutting-edge Free Software to end users. However the keynote "Only Hackers will Survive" by tech activist and environmentalist Joanna Murzyn, and Joseph De Veaugh-Geiss' "Opt In? Opt Out? Opt Green!" talk took attendees down a left turn by addressing growing concerns about the impact of IT on the environment and discussed how Free Software can help curb CO2 emissions.

• Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14.0

  Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14.0 is now available for packaging.

  This adds features needed for the Plasma 6.2 beta.

  SHA256: 1a4385ecfc79f7589f07381cab11c3ff51f6e2fa4b73b78600d6ad096394bf81 Signed by: E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Riddell jr@jriddell.org

• Jonathan Riddell ☛ git revert name and Akademy

  I reverted my name back to Jonathan Riddell and have now made a new uid for my PGP key, you can get the updated one on keyserver.ubuntu.com or my contact page or my Launchpad page.

• KDE neon Akademy Session

  KDE Akademy is meeting this week in Würzburg.

  We just had a BoF session where we discussed..