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Found a bug in KDE software? Here's how you can help us solve it:

https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

Plasma Beta Review Day on Thursday, September 24: You too can join the Plasma team live and help get Plasma 5.20 ready for release!

http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/plasma-beta-review-day/

KDE's 2019 yearly report is out. Includes a comprehensive list of activities, a breakdown of what changed and the goals we set, and the all-important financial report 💰.

https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2019/

You can support KDE activities throughout the year by becoming a supporting member of the KDE e.V.: https://relate.kde.org

Or by making a one-time donation ➡️ https://kde.org/community/donations/

This Week in KDE - The Week Everything Happened: Announcing the new Plasma wallpaper, improved smooth scrolling in Okular, improved graphic performance on Wayland, and so much more.

https://pointieststick.com/2020/09/18/this-week-in-kde-everything-happened/

This Week in KDE - The Week Everything Happened: Touch support for Dolphin, Plasma starts up faster and safer, Elisa sidebar is now collapsible on mobile, and so much more.

https://pointieststick.com/2020/09/18/this-week-in-kde-everything-happened/

Plasma 5.20 Beta is out! Help KDE test the new features and improvements that will go into the final version to be released on October 13.

https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.19.90

CAUTION: Contains untested beta software! Do not use as your main work environment!

Congratulations for the release of @gnome 3.38! 🎉

https://floss.social/@gnome/104875103103895136

LabPlot, KDE's graphical data analysis app, releases version 2.8. In this version: More than 2000 documented datasets, better support for Jupyter notebooks and new plotting capabilities such as reference lines and image elements, among many other things.

https://labplot.kde.org/2020/09/16/labplot-2-8-released/

Kontrast is the new KDE application that will help you pick the best (and most accessible) color combo for you site/app.

#a11y

https://carlschwan.eu/2020/09/15/kontrast-1.0.html

The history of Kdenlive in 3 minutes 30 seconds: What is it? When did it start? What challenges has it overcome? A fascinating look at how a major FLOSS project evolves.

https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/f17b33b3-fb27-4e60-b1b9-fd184fc9cb1c

Season of KDE call for mentors is now open. If you want to help people get started contributing to Free Software, check out the instructions and links here:

https://caiojcarvalho.wordpress.com/2020/09/10/call-for-mentors-and-admins-for-season-of-kde-2021/

KDE Frameworks 5.74 is here with new breeze icons, a faster KTextEditor and many fixes to KIO.

https://kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.74.0

K-Developers rejoice! KDE's new developers' web portal is designed especially for you.

https://develop.kde.org/

Also check out the documentation to get you started, with new tutorials coming soon:

https://develop.kde.org/docs/

To everyone who attended #Akademy2020 this year, thank you! We cannot wait to catch up again next month for the Post-Akademy meet-up on 31 October. Come ready with some Halloween gear and project updates! You can register here: https://akademy.kde.org/2020/post-akademy-meet

Also, check out the Akademy 2020 Final day - Conference Recap: BoFs, Students, and a warm Farewell https://dot.kde.org/2020/09/11/akademy-2020-day-7-last-day

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The time has come for #Akademy2020 to end. Join us to recap with friends, find out who will get this year's awards, and close out this year with a bang!
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Here is a message from our third and final wonderful keynote speaker, Valorie Zimmerman! Join her in 15 minutes at #Akademy2020! For more program information visit https://akademy.kde.org/2020/program
@valorie

In 15 minutes the final #Akademy2020 BoF wrap-up will begin. Please join us to talk about all of the great things you have done this week. For more program information visit https://akademy.kde.org/2020/program
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Let's have a vision of the future at #Akademy2020 in 30 minutes. For more information visit https://akademy.kde.org/2020/program
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Where is knowledge? Let's find out at #Akademy2020 in 30 minutes. For more information visit https://akademy.kde.org/2020/program
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