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KDE's "This Week In Plasma" Will Become Less Frequent Without New Volunteers

Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 28 December 2025 at 06:56 AM EST. 27 Comments
The This Week In Plasma series written by KDE developer Nate Graham has been a great way to keep-up with all of the interesting KDE Plasma desktop developments over the past eight years. This Week In Plasma is regularly featured on Phoronix and always provides an interesting weekend look at the very newest innovations to land in Plasma. Unfortunately, This Week In Plasma will become less frequent or even go on hiatus without new volunteer contributors.

There was no This Week In Plasma edition this week and Nate Graham today put out a blog post explaining the situation. Long story short, due to work and family responsibilities, Nate has less time to invest in This Week In Plasma and thus is looking for new contributors to take over.

Especially since becoming co-owner and CEO of the KDE consulting firm Techpaladin that is working with the likes of Valve, his time has been more pressed. Due to the Techpaladin workload, he doesn't have the time anymore to dedicate into the weekly KDE Plasma development summaries.

For now he's planning to punt off This Week In Plasma to every two or 3~4 weeks rather than weekly. But he's hoping to find a person or team that wants to take over writing TWiP. Those wanting to learn more about the situation can do so via this blog post.

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.