There is only a month to go before the first KDE and Qt conference in India opens. The event will be headlined by three keynotes speakers talking on the effects of technology on culture, the law and what makes our community tick. Talks and workshops have been announced and registration is open for anyone planning to attend.

SF.net's investigation uncovered evidence of password sniffing attempts. They have no evidence to suggest that the sniffing attempt was completed successfully. But, what they definitely don't want is to find out in 2 months that passwords were compromised and they didn't take action.

A group of FFmpeg developers has announced that the project has a new set of maintainers -- news which came as a surprise to existing maintainer Michael Niedermayer. Developer Diego Biurrun has posted an explanation of how the coup came to be, but it's clear that not everybody is satisfied.

Predictions on Operating System Usage Share in 2012

On 26 January many of KDE's application teams will also be unveiling new versions of their software. That means it is time to gather with local KDE mates to celebrate the new releases. It is a good reason to just chill out with other people and discuss anything you have on your mind, from KDE to pink fluffy bunnies.

While many software developers and enthusiasts have been focusing on the push for open source software, did we miss the fact that somewhere along the line companies got a hold of something even more important: our personal data?

For the past eighteen months, KDE has been my primary desktop. You could call me a generally happy user -- but, as with any desktop not designed for me personally, KDE has one or two quirks or deficiencies that make my computing less than ideal

The VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia program, developed by the VideoLAN project. It’s available for all common operating systems, plus a few more. The website boldly states that “It plays everything!” Is that so?
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