Kubuntu is once again a sponsor of the KDE conference aKademy 2007. Kubuntu shares sponsorship to this year’s aKademy with others organizations such as Trolltech (the developers of Qt), the Linux Foundation, and Google. aKademy is the yearly meeting of the KDE community. This year’s event will be held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, and will last 8 days from June 30^th to July 7^th. aKademy 2007 will feature talks and presentations by outstanding KDE developers, joint development, bug-fixing and coding sessions, workshops for all KDE contributors, and design, usability and polishing work. You can bet KDE 4 will be the number one topic of the event.

Thursday, April 19, 2007 - The Kubuntu development team is proud to announce the release of Kubuntu 7.04, development codename “The Feisty Fawn”. Kubuntu prides itself on working towards the perfect KDE GNU/Linux solution, and with this latest release the development team worked harder than ever to do just this. Kubuntu is based on the award winning Ubuntu Linux operating system, however Kubuntu sports the latest in the K Desktop Environment. This latest release includes many updates, new features, and the latest releases of your favorite applications. Starting with KDE 3.5.6 for the desktop, Kubuntu also ships with K3b version 1.0, Amarok 1.4.5, OpenOffice.org 2.2, Kopete 0.12.4, and more. The Kubuntu development team has worked hard to incorporate the best usability and accessibility features, to tame the edginess, and to provide yet another stable and secure computing environment for everyone.

The Kubuntu development team would also like to thank all of its users for the testing and input provided during the development cycle, and of course a big thank you to the entire development community involved with this release.

For the complete release information and download information please review the Kubuntu 7.04 Release Notes.

Jonathan Riddell, Canonical employee and Kubuntu developer, was recently interviewed for kubuntu-de.org. You can view the complete interview in English as well as in German.

In this interview you will learn more about the current situation of KDE 4, as well as how soon we can hope to see it as the default version available in Kubuntu.

Kubuntu Team Meeting in #ubuntu-meeting

• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/Meetings

The sabdfl has announced a special meeting for Kubuntu and KDE developers to help chart the future of Kubuntu:

This is an invitation for the Kubuntu and KDE community to join us at LinuxTag on 6 May in Wiesbaden near Frankfurt to chart the future course of Kubuntu.

The LinuxTag event is a perfect opportunity for us to engage directly with the KDE user and developer communities. Germany is in many ways the heart of the KDE community, so we have been looking for a way to pull together a summit of leaders, users, developers and translators from that country and this event is hopefully going to be just that.

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Javier writes in pointing out some recent Kubuntu articles in the press. Firstly, Phil Hughes from Tux Magazine takes a good look at the upcoming Dapper Drake version of Kubuntu.

You’ll find the latest Kubuntu 5.10 Live CD featuring KDE 3.5.1 and KOffice 1.5 beta in the current edition of the UK’s Linux User Magazine. And finally, Carla Schroder, author of the Linux Cookbook brings us Tuning Kubuntu.

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