Category Archives: KDE

Wikimedia at KDE Akademy 2010

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Guillaume Paumier

Three weeks ago, I attended the KDE Akademy 2010 conference in Tampere, Finland. Beside the talk Parul and I gave to share experience about User experience, I also took this opportunity to meet with the KDE community and discuss collaboration opportunities. Continue reading →

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digiKam / KDE imaging coding sprint 2009

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Guillaume Paumier

I just came back from the digiKam / KDE imaging coding sprint in Essen, Germany. My main goal was to start working on an export plugin to Wikimedia Commons from digiKam, which can be a wonderful tool for Wikimedia photographers. Continue reading →

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digiKam, the perfect tool for Wikimedia Commons photographers?

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Guillaume Paumier

For several years now, I have been a photographer for Wikimedia Commons. Commons is actually the reason why I became interested in photography, and why I bought a DSLR camera and various lenses. And I have ended up taking a lot of pictures.

The problem when you take a lot of pictures is that the time you need then to process and upload them grows exponentially. Besides, if you want to upload your pictures to several platforms (say, Commons, flickr and your blog), you have to deal with the specifics of each website. It would be much simpler and faster to describe, tag, classify, geotag the pictures only once (using an appropriate batch-editing tool) and then to have each website extract the metadata, or to use an upload tool that extracts them automatically. Continue reading →

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