First things first...

Ubuntu as a project

Kubuntu is NOT Ubuntu

Ubuntu uses Gnome

Ubuntu is driven by the Community AND Canonical

Kubuntu community has the more power and most responsibility

Kubuntu's target is to make the best KDE distro and not the best Ubuntu flavor

What is KDE?

Founded by Matthias Ettrich in 1996

KDE stands for K Desktop Environment

Developed using QT toolkit (non-GPL) by Trolltech

KDE 1.0

Released July 12, 1998

November 1998, QT toolkit was dual licensed under free/open source QPL and Trolltech

KDE 2.0

Release in October 23, 2000

Konqueror (web browser, file manager, document viewer, etc) and KOffice are introduced

KDE 3.0

Released April 3, 2002

Most of current KDE application came out

Most stable KDE release

KDE 4.0

Released January 11, 2008

KDE 4 is completely port/rewrite to QT 4 series to use less memory than KDE 3

KDE 4 uses new multimedia API (Phonon), device integration framework(Solid), new style guide and default icon set (Oxygen) and a unified desktop and panel (Plasma)

First release doesn't include Amarok (music player), K3B (CD Burning), Digikam (Photo Manager), KOffice, and Krita (Graphic Editor)

KDE rebranding

Annouced on November 24, 2009

We will use simply "KDE" and retire the expansion "K Desktop Environment"

We will use "KDE" exclusively in two meanings:

KDE, the community, which creates free software for end users

As an umbrella brand for the technology created by the KDE community

KDE rebranding

We will use distinct brands for the software that was previously referred to generically as “KDE”:

The KDE Workspaces will be separately referred to as "KDE Plasma Desktop" and "KDE Plasma Netbook"

The KDE technologies used for building applications will be referred to as the "KDE Platform"

KDE rebranding

The KDE Applications will stay as they are: "the KDE Applications"

The product we currently have released as "KDE 4.3" is essentially a compilation of our software (Workspaces, Applications and Platform), and thus the next release will be named "KDE Software Compilation 4.4"

What's new in Kubuntu 10.04?

New Branding

What's new in Kubuntu 10.04?

KDE Plasma Desktop 4.4.2

What's new in Kubuntu 10.04?

Official Kubuntu Netbook Remix

What's new in Kubuntu 10.04?

Amarok 2.3 (current version is 2.3.1 beta in ppa:kubuntu-ppa/beta)

Installer Slideshow

Touchpad Configuration

System Notification polish

KDE integration for Firefox

Gnome Application System Tray integration

THANK YOU VERY MUCH...