http://kontact.org/ KDE Kontact is a PIM suite with support for several Groupware servers for the K Desktop Environment en-us webmaster@konqueror.org (Webmaster) Copyright (c) 2005, kontact.org Webmaster January 25, 2007 Kontact 1.2.4 was released on January 25, 2007 as part of KDE 3.5.6. This version adds many new features to all the components and fixes a number of bugs. January 12, 2007 The fifth annual KDE PIM developer meeting took place in Osnabrück, Germany, between 12-15 January. The venue was the same as last year: Intevation. Subjects discussed included aKonadi, a unique desktop storage and retrieval service for PIM data, along with KDE 4, which is scheduled for release in the second half of 2007. January 6, 2006 The fourth annual KDE PIM developer meeting took place in Osnabrück, Germany, between 6-8 January. The meeting was hosted by Intevation. Topics discussed included a new storage subsystem for PIM data, which was named aKonadi during the meeting. August 22, 2005 bomots.de has released an attractively presented and easy to read publication on KDE Kontact. This German language book is available now. June 20, 2005 KDE Kontact is the Linux/UNIX client for the Kolab 2 Server. Its predecessor Kolab 1 was the first groupware server supported by Kontact. Read the press release for details. March 16, 2005 Kontact 1.1 has been released as a part of KDE 3.4. Highlights of this include aKregator integration and support for more groupware servers. February 23, 2005 http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux05/KMail_KDE_Linux_01_Story01.html In an e-mail discussion MozillaQuest asks a KMail maintainer Ingo Klöcker, "What do you see as the top five features of KMail?". Get the details here. January 20, 2005 http://dot.kde.org/1106179379/ For the third time, the town of Osnabrück, Germany, was the place for a lot of KDE PIM hackers to hold their annual meeting, kindly hosted by Intevation. Read the details at the dot. January 19, 2005 http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/13/1554239 NewsForge has published a story which covers KOrganizer along with other popular group calendaring and scheduling software. November 10, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#Kontact/KontactGetsOpenGroupwareorgSupport Read the details at the dot. October 27, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#Kontact/KMailreceivesLinuxNewMediaAward Read the details at the dot. October 21, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#KontactArticleavailableonline Linux-Magazine has released a verbose story on Kontact and its support for groupware servers. August 19, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#Kontact1.0released Version 1.0 of Kontact, the KDE groupware client suite, has been released along with KDE PIM 3.3. It features support for the Kolab server, eGroupware and SUSE Openexchange. Starting with this release, Kontact is considered stable. The KDE PIM package is also backwards compatible with KDE 3.2. August 18, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#LinuxClosesInOnWindows ZDNet UK reports: "The new version of KDE has a completely new email client, in one of many improvements designed to close the features gap with Windows". July 27, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#SecondKDEKontactBugSquashingDaywasasuccess Read the report by KDE Kontact developer Till Adam in his blog on kdedevelopers.org. July 22, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#usenix2004 From June 27th to July 2nd 2004 the USENIX Annual Technical Conference took place at Boston. The FREENIX track featured a refereed paper about Kontact and how it is used as an application integration framework which was presented by Cornelius Schumacher. You can find the paper and the slides of the presentation at the Kontact home page. June 29, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#freegroupware PCLinuxOnline features a Howto article about the setup of Kontact CVS and eGroupware. A Free Groupware solution for small and medium sized businesses. June 9, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#Kontact083released Kontact 0.8.3 has been released as part of KDE 3.2.3. This is the third bugfix release of KDE Kontact and can be downloaded by visiting download.kde.org. June 2, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#KDEPuttingLinux SearchEnterpriseLinux.com has published an article reviewing the core enterprise applications in KDE including Kontact. April 19, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#Kontact082released Kontact 0.8.2 has been released as part of KDE 3.2.2. This is the second bugfix release of KDE Kontact and can be downloaded by visiting download.kde.org. April 16, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#shopping A new shopping system is now open on this website. This system gives you the Kontact user a greater degree of control over the design and development of Kontact and components. If you are waiting for a bug to be fixed or a new feature to be implemented then this system can help put an end to the waiting. April 14, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#AddressReview Complementing the recent organizer and mail client reviews is this LinuxPlanet review of address books, including a section on KAddressBook. March 24, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#CalendarSearch In this article the LWN editor test drived a number of calendar applications before deciding to replace ical with KOrganizer. Congratulations to the KOrganizer team. March 24, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#EideReview Kristian Eide has written a comparative review of "The Next Generation of Mail Clients". Which includes a section on Kontact and KMail. Kristian includes a table indicating that HTML mail composition, built-in support for Spam filtering and Follow-ups are not supported in the version of Kontact he tested. However the new and improved version of Kontact under development already includes all these features and more. March 9, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#Kontact081released Kontact 0.8.1 has been released as part of KDE 3.2.1. This is the first bugfix release of KDE Kontact and can be downloaded by visiting download.kde.org. February 4, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#Kontactreleased Kontact 0.8 has been released as part of KDE 3.2. This stable but feature incomplete version is part of the KDE-PIM package and can be downloaded by visiting download.kde.org. This is the first official release of KDE Kontact as part KDE. January 15, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#KDEPIMmeetinginOsnabrueckreport pim.kde.org has a nice story on the KDE PIM meeting in Osnabrueck. There are individual reports from the participants, as well as news on the KDE PIM 3.3 release schedule and kolab client intergration. When browsing the pictures, make sure to compare this years group photo with the one from last year. January 11, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#KontactportedtoOSX Today KDE Kontact got successfully ported to Apple's OSX. See a screenshot here. For more info on the KDE's OSX port read here and here. January 11, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#Majorwebsiteupdate This website got a major update... enjoy! The news on this site is now also available as an RDF news feed (http://kontact.org/news.rdf). January 4, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#ReleaseandfeatureplanforKDEPIM KDE PIM release and feature plans where put on the developer.kde.org website. January 3, 2004 http://kontact.org/news.php#KDEPIMmeetinginOsnabrueck The KDE PIM developers met in Osnabrueck (Germany) to discuss about and hack on the KDE-PIM application family. Main topics for the meeting are finalizing the Kolab client integration, discussing the planned separate Kontact/KDE PIM release and lots of hacking. November 18, 2003 http://kontact.org/news.php#KDEKontactBugSquashingDaywasasuccess Read the report by KDE Kontact developer Cornelius Schumacher here, in his blog on kdedevelopers.org. October 27, 2003 http://kontact.org/news.php#DanielMolkentinonKDEKontact KDE Kontact developer Daniel Molkentin writes big news in his blog on kdedevelopers.org. Read it all here. August 22-30, 2003 http://kontact.org/news.php#KDEContributorConference The KDE Contributor Conference 2003 at Nové Hrady was a big success. There was a talk by Daniel Molkentin on KDE Kontact, read his homework here (text file) and the presentation here (in KPresenter format). Checkout the impressive schedule for more interesting presentations. July 14, 2003 http://kontact.org/news.php#FAQadded The most FAQ's from the mailing lists and at LinuxTag are summarized here. June 26, 2003 http://kontact.org/news.php#KDEKontactreviewed Read Savanna's review of KDE Kontact here on the dot (KDE's news site). May 13, 2003 http://kontact.org/news.php#Screenshotsandwebsiteupdated Today new screenshots (1, 2, 3, 4) from the CVS Version were uploaded for your viewing pleasure. Please note that you will only get this from CVS, which in turn requires installing KDE HEAD. There is no new separate release at the moment. March 1, 2003 http://kontact.org/news.php#KDEKontactreleased A new release of KDE Kontact containing an upgraded KMail component is now available. The KMail message composer now supports as-you-type spell checking and color quoting thanks to the generous folks at Trolltech. Also numerous annoyances have been fixed and the KMail system tray applet is now functional. This is another stable but feature incomplete release, get it here. December 25, 2002 http://kontact.org/news.php# A working prototype of KDE Kontact, a personal information management application for KDE that integrates the KMail, KAddressbook, KOrganizer (and in the future other applications) is now available.
KDE Kontact builds on the work of many people including the KDE PIM contributors.
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