Plasma rocks Akademy published
Marco and Sebas talk Plasma: State of the UnionI published an article about the recent Akademy conference on KDE’s news site, dot.kde.org. This article discusses the presentation Marco and I gave...
View ArticleInterview on hostingadvice.com
How KDE’s Open Source community has built reliable, monopoly-free computing for 20+ yearsA few days ago, Hostingadvice.com’s lovely Alexandra Leslie interviewed me about my work in KDE. This interview...
View ArticleHelp us create a privacy-focused Free software smartphone!
The news is out! KDE and Purism are working together on a Free software smartphone featuring Plasma Mobile. Purism is running a crowdfunding campaign right now, and if that succeeds, with the help of...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Plasma Mobile
Plasma Mobile Back around 2006, when the Plasma project was started by Aaron Seigo and a group of brave hackers (among which, yours truly) we wanted to create a user interface that is future-proof. We...
View ArticlePlasma Mobile and Convergence
Convergence, or the ability the serve different form factors from the same code base, is an often discussed concept. Convergence is at the heart of Plasma‘s design philosophy, but what does this...
View ArticlePrivacy Software
What are you looking at? As a means to give our work direction and a clearer purpose, KDE is currently in the process of soul-searching. Here’s my proposal of what we should concentrate and focus on in...
View ArticleEnergy-Saving Plasma
Energy consumption of an idle Plasma desktopAfter a series of horrible fuckups (and I’m not using this word lightly here) by Lenovo, they’ve finally replaced my laptop with a 2nd gen X1 Yoga. I’ve...
View ArticlePlasma Convergence, technically
A Plasma Phone In one of my latest blogs, I’ve explained what convergence is, how Plasma benefits from it, and why we consider it a goal for Plasma. This time around, I’ll explain the how, how it works...
View Article4 reasons why the librem 5 got funded
Librem 5 Plasma MobileIn the past days, the campaign to crowd-fund a privacy-focused smartphone built on top of Free software and in collaboration with its community reached its funding goal of 1.5...
View ArticlePlasma Mobile Roadmap
In the past weeks, we have noticed an increased interest in Plasma Mobile from different sides. Slowly, but surely, hardware vendors have discovered that Plasma Mobile is an entirely different software...
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