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2013-04-22: KO GmbH Announces Support and Maintenance for Krita: Krita Studio
KO GmbH announces extensive support services for the award-winning professional paint application Krita. Krita is an advanced paint application with a large set of professional paint tools and which can handle extremely large images effortlessly. This makes it well suited for special effects work in the movie industry.
Krita has already been used in several Hollywood block buster movies like G.I. Joe 2 by VFX leaders such as Digital Domain. Krita has been used for many different tasks including concept art, matte painting and rotoscopy.
Until now Krita has lacked a structured support offering, something that KO GmbH, which employs several of the lead developers of Krita, sees as an opportunity. Simon Legrand, currently 3D generalist at Double Negative in London says: "It's a testament to the quality and productivity of Krita that I have been able to use it to such an extent already before the availability of company support for it." Boudewijn Rempt, maintainer of Krita and CTO at KO GmbH adds: "There is a very lively community around Krita and we are always working with the needs of our users before our eyes."
See the product page and support page for more details about Krita Studio
2013-02-10: KO GmbH Exhibits Krita Sketch at the Mobile World Congress
KO GmbH will exhibit Krita Sketch together with Intel at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 25th - 28th. Come to the Intel booth and see how you can use a professional paint tool with an Intel touch based ultrabook and Krita Sketch! The booth is the Intel booth near the entrance of the biggest hall.
UPDATE: You can read a report from the show at krita.org
2012-11-20: KO GmbH Releases First Touch Version of Krita: Krita Sketch
KO GmbH has today released the first tablet/ultrabook version of the award-winning digital painting application Krita. Optimized for touch screens, Krita Sketch provides everything an artist needs to create great images on the go.
In partnership with Intel, Krita Sketch 1.0 for Windows 7 and Windows 8 is available for free from Intel AppUp.
Read more about Krita and Krita Sketch on http://www.kogmbh.com/krita
2012-07-01: Camilla Boemann Receives Award for Best Application at KDE Akademy
KO employee and Calligra Words maintainer Camilla Boemann and Calligra Words were selected to receive the award for best application by the jury of the Akademy awards. KDE Akademy is the yearly international conference for the KDE community of which the Calligra team is part.
We congratulate Camilla Boemann and the rest of the Calligra Words team for a well deserved award.
2012-06-25: KO Brings Krita to Windows
KO GmbH, the company which brought the Calligra application suite to Windows, Android, Maemo and MeeGo, is pleased to announce that they will start working on creating a new Windows version of the acclaimed digital painting application Krita, with funding from Intel.
The application will be called Krita Sketch. Krita Sketch will integrate with all the new touch facilities on Ultrabooks and upcoming Intel-based tablets and give new possibilities to creative artists everywhere.
"Touch", explains Krita maintainer Boudewijn Rempt, "has been consistently underused in painting applications. Let's go beyond pinch-to-zoom. Let's make it possible to smudge, smear, paint, transform and warp right in your image with your fingers. Let's bring a new level of control, of feeling to digital art. This will be fun -- but not just fun, we aim to give a real boost your productivity as an artist."
Krita already has a lively community of professional and amateur artists, as well as a dedicated developer community. In the past two years, Krita made the jump to readiness for professional artists on Linux; with this project, it will make that step on Windows as well.
Krita Sketch will be developed together with the Krita community in the Krita source repository. Official installers of the new application will be available though Intel's AppUp application store.
2012-05-22: KO Partners with Make Play Live
KO GmbH, has become a partner
with Make Play Live, the
company which develops and markets the Vivaldi tablets. KO has become
partner in 3 categories:
Add-on Partner
Integration Partner
Enterprise Partner
Find out more details about this partnership and what it can bring to our customers on our Partner page
2012-04-25: KO Coworker in the OASIS Technical Committee for Open Document
KO GmbH is proud to announce today that our colleague C Boemann has entered the select group of members of the OASIS technical committee for the Open Document Format. Boemann is our second colleague together with J van den Oever to join the TC.
Boemann blogs about this and writes: "The initial purpose is to make recomendations and alterations for the next generation of change tracking in the ODF file format. I am working together with two other members of the TC, but, even though I'm not alone, I really feel the personal responsibility to make something good, as billions of people can potentially be affected."
2011-12-20: Experimental Calligra Installer for Windows Available
KO GmbH has made the first experimental (alpha) version of its Windows installer package for the Calligra Suite available. You can find the packages on our Download page. Please be aware that this is a very early version and that some things do not work as expected. This work has been sponsored by the NLnet Foundation.
2011-11-15: KO and SKF Will Integrate Calligra Words into SKF Design Tool Orpheus
KO GmbH and world leading ball bearing manufacturer SKF have signed a contract to integrate Calligra Words into SKF's design tool Orpheus. Orpheus helps SKF engineers design ball and roll bearings in cooperation with customers and partners. Calligra Words will be used as an embedded report generation tool that will make it possible to automatically generate and regenerate tables, figures and images.
About SKF: SKF Group is the leading global supplier of products, solutions and services within rolling bearings, seals, mechatronics, services and lubrication systems.
2011-11-03: New WebODF White Paper Published
KO GmbH has published a white paper on the technology behind WebODF. WebODF is a collection of JavaScript routines that lets you show office documents in the Open Document Format in a web browser. It can also be used to add Open Document viewing to an application using an embeddable browser component such as WebKit.
2011-10-25: Calligra is Released as Office Application in the Nokia N9 Smartphone
Mobile giant Nokia has just released the Linux based N9 model. Among the applications that are bundled with the smartphone the user will find the office application Harmattan Office.
Harmattan Office is a document viewer based on the Calligra Office Engine which is part of the open-source Calligra Suite and developed in cooperation with KO GmbH. This application provides an advanced viewer for documents in the OpenDocument Format, binary Microsoft Office documents, and Microsoft OOXML documents, as well as PDF. Read more at the home page of the Calligra Suite.
2010-12-06: KOffice becomes Calligra
Recognizing that the KOffice core engine is these used in many places, and for many kinds of applications, the KOffice community have decided to use the migration from subversion to git to also rename the suite to Calligra.
2010-12-01: WebODF Screencast Demo Available
There is now a screencast video available showing WebODF in action and explaining some technical background.
2009-11-24: KOffice 2.1.0 Released
KOffice version 2.1 was announced today, 6 months after the first release of the 2.x series. This version brings many bugfixes and improved stability to all components. As examples of new features, we see text tables for KWord and support for SVG filter effects in Karbon. Krita and Karbon are now considered mature enough for real work. See the official announcement for more details.
2009-10-11: Office Viewer on the Nokia N900 uses KOffice as Engine
At the Maemo Summit 2009 in Amsterdam, it was announced that the Office Viewer application for the Nokia N900 will be based on KOffice. At the conference, Suresh Chande of Nokia gave a presentation on the office viewer applications, and used the viewer on the device itself to give the presentation.
2009-05-30: KO Gmbh Invited by Dutch Government to ODF Plugfest
KO Gmbh, the leading support company for KOffice was today invited to take part in a major interoperability event for OpenDocument based office applications: the ODF Plugfest. The invitation was extended by Frank Heemskerk, Netherlands Minister for Foreign Trade. The event will take place in the Hague at June 15th and 16th.
2009-05-28: KOffice 2.0.0 Released
After more than 3 years of development, KOffice 2.0.0 was finally released today. This release is a so called "platform release", which is aimed at developers rather than end users. Still, it is a very important milestone in the life of KOffice, and KO congratulates the KOffice team for the achievement. See the official announcement for more details.
2008-01-09: KO GmbH Founded
KO GmbH with
main offices in Magdeburg, Germany, today starts its activity in
Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands. KO GmbH will offer
professional services around the open source
OpenDocument-based KOffice office
suite. KO GmbH will allow KOffice to be used in
companies and organizations that demand high quality support and
training for OpenDocument
deployment.
See the full press release
2007-12-10: KO Founder Speaks at KDE Release Event
Inge Wallin, co-founder of KO GmbH was today announced as a speaker at the KDE release event in Mountain View, California on january 18th 2008. Inge will speak about the future of KOffice.
