This petition wants contributing to Free Software to be legally and officially recognized as volunteering in Germany on the same level as youth work or ambulance service:

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Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany - Online-Petition

Open-Source-Software builds the foundations of digital infrastructure in big parts - in administration, economy, science and daily life. Even the c...

This would bring fiscal and funding advantages for FLOSS organizations and the volunteers themselves. If you are a German citizen, please sign the petition and let's get our volunteers the recognition they deserve! --- Photo credit: Redazione Cultura. distributed under CC By SA license

"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6.6 lands in little over two weeks, choosing mixed skin tones for emojis gets a friendly pop-up, and you can set a global keyboard shortcut to clear the notification history, among many other marvelous things.

KDE Blogs

This Week in Plasma: getting 6.6 ready for release

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we reached that part of every Plasma release cycle where the bug fixes and polish for the ...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta 2 has been Released!

KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta Release - KDE Community

This is second beta of Plasma 6.6, which includes several bugfixes before final release on 17th February 2026.

That means that Plasma 6.6 is only 3 weeks away. If you don't mind playing around with unstable software, please give it whirl and report bugs to

KDE Bugtracking System Main Page

Come and visit our booth this weekend at @npub1yauc...atjv 2026! We’ll be in Building K, Level 2, alongside other community booths, showing the newest version of Plasma on a laptop, plus other devices like the OP6, Fairphone 5, Mecha Comet, ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16, PineTab 2, Steam Deck, and Surface running Plasma. #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #Plasma @npub1qlaz...qv2c

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A KDE Klassic Bounces Back! The Bouncy Ball widget is now available for #Plasma6 thanks to Filip Fila's crazed night of coding.

Filip Fila's blog

Bouncy Ball will always bounce back

Bouncy Ball. A proper KDE 4 classic. Many hymns of praise have been sung about this lovable desktop extension. Do You Remember the KDE Bouncy Ball ...

#bounces #ball #pointless #cats @npub1qlaz...qv2c

"This Week in Plasma" is fixing all the things!!! The team fixed 28% of all high priority bugs, added a page to System Settings that allows you to configure shared printers on Windows networks, reorganized KRunner’s buttons, and much more!

KDE Blogs

This Week in Plasma: fixing all the things

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team focused almost entirely on bug fixing. And let’s let the results speak f...

#TWiP #Plasma6 # desktop #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Season of KDE 2026 kicks off with 25 volunteers working on 21 projects. SoK is KDE's mentorship program that introduces new contributors to Free Software. This year our mentees will help improve the state of Plasma, KDE Connect, KDE's games, KDE Eco, translations, KDE's websites, internal data collection and more.

KDE Mentorship

Season Of KDE 2026 Projects

New contributors taking part in Season of KDE

#mentoring #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

@npub1u74v...ch96 and @npub10wed...rgef are coding live on Twitch right now!:

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This Week in Plasma brings the news that Plasma 6.6 lets you set the priority of processes using a friendly graphical window, in 6.7 the "Brightness and Color" widget comes with a toggle to quickly switch between light and dark modes, and Frameworks 6.23 improves the touch-friendliness of open/save dialogs.

KDE Blogs

This Week in Plasma: dark mode switch and global push-to-talk

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we closed the door on features for Plasma 6.6, which opened another one for those features...

#FreeSoftware #desktop #OpenSource #Plasma @npub1qlaz...qv2c