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#linuxappsummit is now streaming on

https://www.pscp.tv/LASGNOME/1vOGwavaWPWxB?t=8m44s

and YouTube:

https://youtu.be/4RE8gq0jLhA

(Apologies for the buzz. We are working to solve it.)

#linuxappsummit 2019 starts tonight. Tomorrow we start with chats. Stay tuned to the LAS YouTube channel to keep up with what is going on.

https://youtu.be/3utZp6ELrww

#Janayugom, the South Indian daily newspaper, has migrated all its infrastructure to Free Software, using #Scribus for layout, @Kubuntu as the operating system, and KDE Plasma for the desktop.

https://poddery.com/posts/4691002

KDE's Apps Update for November

New release of LabPlot, bugfixes in dozens of apps, Kdenlive is in the Snap store and find out what's new apps are coming up in the future.

https://dot.kde.org/2019/11/08/apps-update-november

Congratulations KDAB for 20 years building great software! KDE is proud to have had KDAB as a patron since 2007. Ever since its foundation, KDAB has been committed to FOSS, contributing to KDE and Qt in many different ways. Here's to another 20 years!

Go @gnome ! KDE is rooting for you!

You can become a local hero too! Get the 2020 guide to organizing Akademy and host the KDE community in your city.

https://ev.kde.org/akademy/CallforHosts_2020.pdf

Linux Magazine Italia features #Akademy2019 in its central pages and includes a comprehensive interview with local organizer Riccardo Iaconelli:

https://www.facebook.com/GNULinuxMagazineItalia/photos/a.401303914003883/533582817442658/

Crepuscular and creepy -- KDE websites get dark theme just in time for Halloween:

https://carlschwan.eu/2019/10/31/happy-halloween.html

Check out what's going on with Consistency (one of the new #KDEGoals) and how you can help:

https://dot.kde.org/2019/10/31/consistency-update

The new web page for KDE's Goals shows what we're concentrating on for the next couple of years and how you can join in.

https://kde.org/goals

It started life as a cashew in KDE 4 and morphed into a hamburger in Plasma. Now it is gone. What was officially known as the "Desktop toolbox", the menu in the upper right (sometimes upper left) corner of your desktop has been removed.

Instead, long clicking (long press on touch-screens), or right clicking and choosing "Customize layout" brings up a control panel. Use it to add widgets, manage workspaces and configure the desktop. Learn about more changes here:

https://pointieststick.com/2019/10/26/this-week-in-kde-goodbye-noble-cashew/

A treasure trove of bleeding-edge KDE data: We have uploaded all the videos of talks from #Akademy2019 to PeerTube. Find out about how we sped up Plasma, mobile apps for controlling drones, and how Plasma and Mycroft may one day drive your car.

https://peertube.mastodon.host/video-channels/378a7a16-eda8-4b5e-9bf0-f80047e894c0/videos

Would you like to host Akademy in your own town? Here's a simple HOWTO guide. Send us your submission and become the KDE hero your city needs.

https://ev.kde.org/akademy/CallforHosts_2020.pdf