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Back in the summer of 2015, we announced Plasma Mobile as a community effort to bring Plasma and other KDE technologies to handset devices. This was a big step towards building a free operating system for smartphones. Following on from the ramp-up tasks and learning experiences of those first few years, in 2017 we saw major revisions to the architecture of Plasma Mobile OS images for supported devices. As a result of those efforts, users are now porting Plasma Mobile being ported to a wide variety of phones. Closely related to this is the new collaboration with the wider community of users and developers of Free software and operating systems for mobile devices. The community has greatly helped us with porting Plasma Mobile.

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KDE e.V. is a registered non-profit organization that represents the KDE Community in legal and financial matters. The KDE e.V.'s purpose is the promotion and distribution of free desktop software in terms of free software, and the program package "K Desktop Environment (KDE)" in particular, to promote the free exchange of knowledge and equality of opportunity in accessing software as well as education, science and research.

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Between the 7th and 9th of October, the KDE Edu team met in the Endocode offices in Berlin, Germany to work on KDE's educational software. We split up our tasks into three general topics: organization, infrastructure, and coding.

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We discussed the website and the strategies for presenting our projects to the outside world. We also covered improvements to our usage of Phabricator and our roles on the different goals we set for ourselves.

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Educational software users come from different backgrounds and use different platforms, so we don't want to leave anyone behind. That is why we spent some time figuring out the best way to deliver our applications to Windows and Android users. We also looked into our Flatpak packages to discover the showstoppers and implement some improvements. At some point, we will be able to offer fresh and stable versions of our software right onto everybody's device. And of course, we coded. Meetings are great for discussions, but it's also nice to be able to sit with your friends, in front of a laptop with a warm coffee, and start looking into the issues that have been holding us back. We pushed improvements for Cantor and its integration with several languages, released a new version of KTuberling for Android, and a new GCompris version for classrooms. We worked on Marble's routing features and got Minuet running on Windows. All in all, the sprint helped us overcome some crucial roadblocks, and KDE Edu apps are now better than ever.

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Membership. In 2016 we welcomed 2 new members, increasing our membership to 26 plus one honorary member. The KDE España Board went through some changes: Antonio Larrosa replaced Aleix Pol as President, Adrián Chávez replaced Àlex Fiestas as vice-president, and Baltasar Ortega replaced Víctor Blázquez as secretary. José Millan remained as treasurer.

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Akademy-es 2016. Our main event of the year – Akademy-es – was held from the 15th to 17th of April, 2016 in Madrid. More than 80 visitors, including several members of KDE España and local Free Software enthusiasts, attended over 15 presentations on KDE Community projects and Free Software in general. The event was kindly sponsored by OpenSUSE, eyeOS, and Open Sistemas. We discussed Plasma, KDE Frameworks, KDE Applications, how to collaborate with Free Software projects, the OpenSUSE's Open Build Service, Clazy, KDE Connect, and much more. There was an interesting talk about Wikipedia, a presentation of the Slimbook, a lot of socializing and good food. You can find a more detailed list of topics along with some videos here.

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20th Anniversary of KDE We celebrated 20 years of KDE on several locations in Spain. Generally speaking, there were two types of events: simple meetings in public places for food, drinks, and chat; and organized presentations on various KDE products. The events took place in Barcelona, Madrid, Málaga, Oviedo, Santiago de Compostela and Vila-real, and most of them were coordinated by the association. Admittedly, our celebrations were not fancy, but they did attract some local KDE and Free Software enthusiasts.

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Promotion. Promotion is among the most important tasks for the organization, especially within Spain. Our official website was renovated in 2016, and we adopted WordPress as the backend. It is now much easier to post content and make it reflect the KDE branding. Apart from working on our usual tasks like talks, blog posts and social media presence, we continued producing our podcast that we’re especially proud of. In 2015, KDE España launched a regular live video-podcast in Spanish. During the second season, we aired 7 episodes on topics like Plasma Mobile, KDE on Android, the Plasma Desktop on different distributions, the Akademy 2016 summary, the present and future of Plasma 5, Flatpak and Snappy, and a special edition to celebrate 20 years of KDE. Podcast episodes are about an hour long and attract around 300 views per episode. You can find them on the KDE España Youtube channel.

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Barcelona Free Software. Barcelona Free Software is a local group of enthusiasts from the city who get together and discuss different Free Software projects and approaches. In 2016 we organized 11 events and hosted presentations about FSFE with Matthias Kirschner, Bitsquare with Manfred Karrer, and F-Droid with Daniel Martí. We also had a few social gatherings to celebrate our first thousand members and the 20th anniversary of KDE. Most of these meetings happened in the Skyscanner offices in Barcelona. The group also collaborated on creating two documents to explain Free Software to the local community. You can find the documents here and here.

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GCompris is a completely free educational software suite made up of many individual packages that cover various activities. With GCompris, users can learn about the inner workings of a computer; practice using the mouse and keyboard; do exercises in reading, writing, foreign languages, and algebra; play memory and logic games; perform scientific experiments; and more.

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As a project, GCompris has been a regular participant of Google Summer of Code, Season of KDE, and Google Code-in under KDE. In 2016, GCompris added some new activities like Crane, Draw Numbers, Draw Letters, and more. The core part of the project and support for different platforms were also upgraded.

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Documentation was updated, and there were many small improvements and bugfixes, like restoring the window size at startup and adding an internal dataset for wordgames. After 16 years of continuous development on GCompris, Bruno Coudoin stepped down as the commercial representative of the project, and was succeeded by Timothée Giet, a graphic artist and long-time contributor to the KDE Community. Timothée updated the GCompris logo, as well as images for Chess, Hangman, and horizontal/vertical reading activities. GCompris now fully supports 17 languages: Belarusian, British English, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Valencian, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, French, Galician, Italian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian, along with partial support for a handful more.

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KTechLab is an IDE for microcontrollers and electronics. It allows quick editing and simulation of electronic circuits, including circuits with PIC microcontrollers in them. The programs running on the PIC microcontroller can be either graphically drawn as flowcharts, or edited as text in the C programming language, assembly code, or the custom language targeted for beginners called "microbe". In the circuits, all voltages and currents are displayed in real-time. Additionally, when simulating a PIC microcontroller, the program running on the microcontroller can be thoroughly inspected.

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In 2017, KTechLab completed the process of joining KDE. All of the project’s assets are now hosted on KDE infrastructure. The project’s codebase has been ported from KDE3/Qt3 to KDE4/Qt4, making the application much easier to use on modern operating systems. The porting effort resulted in a new release (0.40.0), and the work on porting KTechLab to KF5/Qt5 is currently in progress.

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LaKademy (The LatinAmerica KDE Summit) is a meeting place where new and veteran Latin-American contributors work on existing community projects and create new ones. Since 2012, the event has brought together Latin-American KDE contributors from Brazil, Argentina, and Peru. Apart from developer sprints, LaKademy also features discussions about the KDE Community in Latin America, their previous work, finances, future event organization, and strategies for engaging new contributors.

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This year LaKademy attracted around 20 contributors and took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the 26th to 29th of May at the Federal University of State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). We worked on several community projects: translation, promotion, Plasma widgets, Cantor, Minuet, Umbrello, BRPrint-3D, and more. A decent chunk of time was dedicated to planning the celebration of KDE's 20th anniversary. We also welcomed a few first-time attendees: Enoque, Nicolás and Lays. Enoque worked on the development of a new Plasma widget to interact with Phabricator, and LaKademy was his first contact with the community. Lays is also a newcomer, having joined us in 2016. She worked on her BRPrint-3D project and her Google Summer of Code project on Umbrello. Nicolás is already a long-time KDE contributor, but this was his first time at LaKademy. He worked with Rafael on many sysadmin tasks. Non-coding contributions are important to us, so we also had a group dedicated to reviewing translation packages and reshaping the glossary of the Brazilian Portuguese team. Camila, Aracele and Fred proposed the reactivation of an old website with a standardized vocabulary for free software projects in Brazil. This is a resource that the KDE pt_BR team can largely benefit from.

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