Notices by Carl Schwan :kde: (carl@kde.social)

There is currently a EU Citizens' Initiative to ban "conversion therapy" of queer people. It is still missing some signatures, it really takes less than a minute to complete and has a real impact on people, so if you are an EU citizen please do sign it:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

#banConversionTherapy #queer

@Jbb @bagder which would be a bit ironic for the website of a highly scalable load balancer software :)

I hate this sort of dark patterns so much, the trick was to click on Skip. Thanks Microsoft.

> Three candidates have been excluded from the final tally: Two were ineligible as they did not sign the current board agreement; one returned the signed agreement after the deadline passed.

This sounds a bit sketchy...

https://opensource.org/blog/announcing-the-new-directors-of-osi-board

#osi

Drew DeVault put it nicely https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html

And nice summary from @niccolove about the current situation https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

If LLM/AI companies could maybe stop DDoS-ing git forges from open-source communities for five minutes, that would be just amazing.

The new Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition webpage, I made is online. Currently only the beta is released but the final release is afaik planned mid April.

https://fedoraproject.org/kde/

#kde #fedora

And another train ticket check successfully passed with #KDE Itinerary. I love this app 😃

https://apps.kde.org/itinerary/

Got some fancy new stickers on my laptop from @thibaultamartin at #fosdem :)

Checkout his podcast: https://ergaster.org/podcast

#techIsPolitical #techIsPublicInfra

Trying to work today with my most appropriate t-shirt 😨

@kde is at #38c3, come say hi, checkout our latest improvements and grab some stickers!

https://38c3.c3nav.de/l/kde/@1,167.16,169.11,5

This Week in @kde Apps is out! This time, we worked on better Android support for Tokodon, search in Merkuro Mail, new user documentation for LabPlot and much more!

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/22/this-week-in-kde-apps-search-in-merkuro-mail-tokodon-for-android-labplot-new-documentation-and-more/

#twika #kde

People some times are born to be haters....

I'm so happy to see the big influx of donations to KDE. More than 75 000€ in the last 30 days with 35 000€ in the past 48 hours.

This is huge. Thank you to everyone who donated!

I'm been traveling a lot lately, which motivated my to work on various user interface improvements to #KDE Itinerary.

Here is for example, a new profile page which provides an overview other all the general user data (relevant for Itinerary).

Another cool thing, I have been working on is the redesign of the timelines. The different sections should now be better organized and easier to read.

Similarly when searching for a train connection, the whole list of possible connections should be easier to compare.

If you like Itinerary and @kde, the excellent Itinerary application is one of the application you can 'adopt' as part of our current end of year fundraiser.

Any amount helps!

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

Looks like my #Plushtodon is getting delayed for an undetermined amount of time :(