en-us http://www.kde-look.org KDE-Look.org: Eyecandy for your KDE-Desktop Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:11:39 +0200 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:11:39 +0200 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Social+Desktop+Contest?id=320 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Social+Desktop+Contest?id=320 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Social+Desktop+Contest?id=320 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200 Have you already played with the thought to develop an application for the Social Desktop? Are you interested in programming a really nice and easy REST API? You've already heard from the Open Collaboration Services API and wanted to hook in this topic? Now it's your chance to do this and to win really nice prizes for your creation! We and the openDesktop.org community are searching for the best and most creative contest submission around the Social Desktop/OCS API!

The goal of the Social Desktop Contest is to foster community development and innovations around the OCS API. Prize winners will be selected by the community an a jury. Entrants are encouraged to submit entries that encourage community participation. Everyone can participate, teams are allowed (but than they have to share their prize, too). Every contribution must be licenced under an open source licence and must be build around the OCS API. Otherwise the entry won't get accepted! Every contest contribution has to be uploaded to openDesktop.org (upload category: Social Desktop contest) so that the community can vote for the best content.

The contest will run till 25th August 2009. The winner will picked by the community and a jury. As the Social Desktop is a cross platform idea it is great that we have people from different project in the jury.

Jury members are:

Aaron Seigo - KDE
Luis Villa - GNOME
Alexandro Colorado - OpenOffice.org
Frank Karlitschek – openDesktop.org

The following prizes can be gained: The winner will receive a brand new Dell Inspiron Mini 10v Netbook (running Linux of course). The owner of the entry with the second highest rating gains a new external HDD with 1TB for backup and storing data. The third and the fourth one get an Amazon.com Gift Coupon for $50.00 respective $30.00.

We are looking forward for your contribution! Sound interesting? Check out the official contest site www.socialdesktop.org/contest/ to obtain more and detailed information! You could also already find some ideas there.

Cheers
Frank

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]]> http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Knowledge+Base+v2.0?id=319 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Knowledge+Base+v2.0?id=319 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Knowledge+Base+v2.0?id=319 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200
The questions and answers are now in the main navigation and better accessible. You can search for answered or not answered questions. We have introduced different categories and a full text search. Questions and answers can be related to specific applications or independent. We simplified the answer workflow. Now every registered user can click on the add answer button and answer a question. You can also upload 2 pictures for every question and 2 more pictures for the answer. The idea is to build a user generated FAQ and knowledge base to help new and unexperienced users.
http://www.openDesktop.org/knowledgebase

All the data is accessible via the OCS REST API. Marco Martin already wrote a nice dataengine and a plasmoid to access this knowledge base directly from the Desktop. The dataengine will be part of KDE 4.3 Let´s what we can do with this infrastructure and ideas in the future. :-)

Our new event database is now also accessible via the Open Collaboration Services API and has its own RSS feed. But RSS is so oldschool. :-) I think integration into the Desktop or Akonadi is the future. Does somebody volunteer to help? :-)
http://www.openDesktop.org/events/


We hope that you like the features. What do you think?

But now I have to switch from development into presentation mode. Like Sebas I have 4 talks in the next 3 weeks. Hope to see you at Linuxtag or at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit.


Cheers
Frank

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]]> http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Events+and+Camheroes?id=318 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Events+and+Camheroes?id=318 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Events+and+Camheroes?id=318 Mon, 25 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200
Every user is free to register new events e.g. a Linux conference in London, a developer meeting in Berlin or just a little barbecue in a backyard. Your event will be listed in the events database and other users can "join" the event.
New participants can be invited to take part in events, friends get automatically informed via the friend newsfeed that some of their friends go to an event. The date, a short description and a location is enough to start a new event. Locations get directly displayed via an OpenStreetMap applet provided by the free wiki world map on each event page.
The event database is going to be part of the Social Desktop therefore events nearby a user can also be displayed via the Social Desktop Plasmoid for the KDE desktop in the future.
Data can be fetched using the Open Collaboration Services API. Furthermore an integration in Kontact/Kalendar and Evolution is being evaluated at the moment.

http://www.openDesktop.org/events/
We hope that you like the features. What do you think?
Check it out!

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]]> http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Become+part+of+the+Social+Desktop?id=317 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Become+part+of+the+Social+Desktop?id=317 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Become+part+of+the+Social+Desktop?id=317 Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.open-collaboration-services.org/socialdesktop.pdf

All the data from the opneDesktop.org websites is accessible via the open collaboration services api: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/open-collaboration-services

You can find more information, screenshots and a demo video about the KDE implementation here: http://dot.kde.org/2009/05/01/social-desktop-starts-arrive

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]]> http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Announcing+the+openDesktop.org+sponsoring+project?id=316 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Announcing+the+openDesktop.org+sponsoring+project?id=316 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Announcing+the+openDesktop.org+sponsoring+project?id=316 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200 today, we are pleased to launch our openDesktop.org sponsoring project. Aim of this project is to help openDesktop.org to keep it as you know it today and to help us to investigate into further new features, improvements and projects for our community.
So what exactly is the openDesktop.org sponsoring you may ask. Well, the openDesktop.org sponsoring is a platform for companies and enterprises which want to prominent present their products, services and job offers on the openDesktop.org websites to a large audience of IT experts. Advantages as a sponsor are free premium job offers, ad banners, mentionings in blogs, news and many more.

So if you know a company who wants to support the open source community via our sponsoring project or if you have suggestions for us we're happy to hear from you. Providing us a sponsor is good for you, too. Each user who help us to find and to acquire a sponsor receive 30% of commission for the first month for each new sponsor as a bonus.

More on our “sponsoring Information page” http://openDesktop.org/sponsoring here or contact us directly via email sponsoring@openDesktop.org

Cheers
Frank

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]]> http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Knowledge+base+feature?id=315 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Knowledge+base+feature?id=315 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Knowledge+base+feature?id=315 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200 we've noticed that there are just few people who are using our knowledge base/help feature. Many don't even know that we have implemented this feature. A short reminder: every application on openDesktop.org network e.g. kde-apps.org or gtk-apps.org can have its own small user generated FAQ. If you have a question or a problem with an application you can post your question together with a description and up to three screenshots. Other can help you with the problem via comments or share tips. And if you found the solutions you can add the answer to your question and mark the problem as solved. The owner of the application has full edit and delete right to the FAQ entries for his application.

Over the time, we hope to build a small user FAQ for every application.
We thought that a lot of people don't associate a knowledge base with our “help” feature. So we decided to rename the tab via a poll decision. Our brainstroming results were FAQ, Knowledge Base, Help, Questions and Answers, Tips and Tricks or Support.

What do you think? Post your opinions as a comment about above names.
Cheers
Frank

Update:
The knowledge base content is also available via the open collaboration services API. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/open-collaboration-services
We plan to use the data for the Social Desktop in the future. So if you want to write a Plasmoid to query the knowledgebase contact us. :-)

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]]> http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Premium+job+board+and+Server-Apps.org?id=314 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Premium+job+board+and+Server-Apps.org?id=314 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/Premium+job+board+and+Server-Apps.org?id=314 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200
The idea is to help Linux experts and open source companies to come together. The job offers and candidates are accessible and integrated in all websites of the openDesktop.org network. For example KDE-Look.org, Qt-apps.org or GNOME-Look.org.
Everybody can publish job offers or their own CV for free. The job board is not only for useful for companies and job seekers. Free software projects can also post open tasks and jobs for free. For example if a free software developer or projects needs some artwork or somebody to test the app or write documentation you can post an open job on the board. The job board can also be used to find freelancers or interns.

A few days ago we launched premium job offers for companies. This job offers are not for free but have a bigger impact than the
free job offers. The premium job are featured on the homepages and are including in system emails and RSS feeds.

We hope to bring companies and free software developers closer together and stimulate the Linux and open source IT market.
So if you know a company who is looking for Linux and IT experts please recommend our job board to them. :-)

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I think I found a solution for this problem. I will release the API for OpenID based API access in a few days after a bit more testing. In the meantime you can use our API with the regular username/password authentication

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]]> http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/user+survey?id=311 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/user+survey?id=311 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/user+survey?id=311 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100
we are looking for new sponsors at the moment to help us paying the running costs of this websites. The traffic of the websites increased significantly over the last few month which cost money.

To find new sponsors we need some information about our audience.

So please go to http://www.opendesktop.org/survey/ and give us a little bit of information about you. This takes less than 5 minutes. The data is stored completely anonymous of course.

We can give this information to companies so they see that it is worth to sponsor us.

And if you know someone who might be willing to sponsor us, send us a message.

Thank you for your help
Frank

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]]> http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/KDE+4.2+released?id=309 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/KDE+4.2+released?id=309 http://www.KDE-Look.org/news/index.php/KDE+4.2+released?id=309 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100
The KDE team encourages everybody to spread the word on the Social Web as well. Submit stories to websites, use channels like delicious, digg, reddit, twitter, identi.ca. Upload screenshots to services like Facebook, FlickR, ipernity and Picasa and post them to appropriate groups. Create screencast, upload them to YouTube, Blip.tv, Vimeo and others. Do not forget to tag uploaded material with the tag kde42 so it is easier for everybody to find the material, and for the KDE team to compile reports of coverage for the KDE 4.2 announcement. This is the first time the KDE team is attempting a coordinated effort to use social media for their messaging. Help us spreading the word, be part of it.

On web forums, inform people about KDE's new compelling features, help others getting started with their new desktop, help us spread information.

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