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We have been accepted to GSOC 2018!

Feb 13, 2018
Martijn Kaijser
We are excited to announce that Kodi has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2018 project ! Students, as of the time of this publication, you have about 2 weeks to start thinking about project ideas. If you are a student interested in applying, please head over to...
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The Official Kodi Edition Raspberry Pi Case

Jun 22, 2016
Nathan Betzen
Since the first Raspberry Pi was announced in 2012, it was inextricably linked with XBMC/Kodi. It was built with the tinkerer in mind and capable of new advanced applications, but always with the perfect fallback of being the tiny living room Kodi media center that...
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Two Free Tickets to Join Us at SCALE in the Los Angeles area this week, Plus CES Wrap-up

Jan 19, 2016
Keith Herrington
We’re attending the Southern California Linux Expo aka SCALE as exhibitors this week, so drop by our booth. This year SCALE has been moved to sunny Pasadena! (Tickets have been given out, thanks for playing) Last month we also attended the Consumer Electronics Show (...
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Enjoy the holidays and a happy 2016

Dec 26, 2015
Martijn Kaijser
We hope you all enjoyed the Christmas diner and are now spending some quality time using Kodi as your media center. Since we’ll probably have nothing to report in coming week we as team already want to wish you all a happy 2016. Sorry, no surprise release this time...
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Kodi 15 Skin Showcase - Part 2

Aug 23, 2015
Martijn Kaijser
By default Kodi starts with the Confluence skin which gives users almost everything they need to enjoy it as media center. Though one of the great powers of Kodi is that it can be adjusted in many ways. One of the most noticeable ones is changing the so called skin...
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Kodi 15.0 skin showcase

Aug 9, 2015
Martijn Kaijser
By default Kodi starts with the Confluence skin which gives users almost everything they need to enjoy it as media center. Though one of the great powers of Kodi is that it can be adjusted in many ways. One of the most noticeable ones is changing the so called skin...
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Kodi Community - May 2015

May 6, 2015
Nathan Betzen
Exciting Google Summer of Code projects, major developments in the codebase that need testing, and even a Kickstarter are just a few of the many items that have occurred since our last community roundup in January. Let’s get updating. Official Android Remote With the...
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Kodi Visits SCALE, Plus the New Villain Shirt/Hoodie

Mar 23, 2015
Nathan Betzen
We wanted to take a minute today to talk about our trip down to Los Angeles for the Southern California Linux Expo, otherwise known as SCALE. XBMC/Kodi have been attending SCALE for the past several years now, and we’ve always very much appreciated the attitude and the...
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We’ve been accepted to GSOC 2015!

Mar 2, 2015
Nathan Betzen
We are excited to announce that Kodi has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 project ! Students, as of the time of this publication, you have about 2 weeks to start thinking about project ideas. If you are a student interested in applying, please head over to...
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FOSDEM 2015 presentation videos

Feb 26, 2015
Kib
On the 31st of January and 1st of February a few team-Kodi members visited the Free and Open Source Software Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) 2015 to give two presentations as well as to set up a stand. As part of our ongoing goal to improve communication to all...
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Google Summer of Code 2015

Feb 20, 2015
Nathan Betzen
We’d like to inform our users that we have applied to be a mentoring organization for this year’s Google Summer of Code . As many of you know, we were accepted in 2013 , 2012 , and 2008 . We recognize that GSoC is always a fierce competition, but we are, as ever,...
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Kodi attending FOSDEM 2015

Jan 29, 2015
Kib
Hey girls and guys, Here is a quick shoutout to any software developers attending FOSDEM ’15 in Brussels this weekend. A few Kodi Team members will be attending the Free and Open Source Software Developers European Meeting 2015 . We have a stand, and will be holding a...
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Some New Year Community Updates 2015 (part 2)

Jan 26, 2015
Martijn Kaijser
Because we have so much great things lined up which we want to share, it’s time for a follow up on our previous community update . Don’t worry, we will do continues effort to further improve stability over just adding new features. We have a continues system running...
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Some New Year Community Updates 2015

Jan 15, 2015
zag
Now that the dust has settled on the new Kodi “Helix” release we thought we would take you through a few of the developments that you may have missed in our community forums. There’s some exciting stuff going on as developers and add-on creators get back to work on...
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Mirrors back online after server was physically moved.

Oct 12, 2014
Kib
Update: As you can see our mirroring server came back online nicely after the physical move. We are excited to be able to use the better networking link, and to know that the server is yet again in the caring hands of the entire networking team at Bytemark, who...
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The Kodi Logo Decision and Kodi DevCon

Oct 8, 2014
Nathan Betzen
As many of you know, the path to our new name is only partially complete. Beyond the various legal steps still needed to be taken, we need to finally take a step forward in the design of our new logo. The logo that’s been posted on the alpha release threads has been an...
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Some repository skins stats 2014

Aug 22, 2014
Martijn Kaijser
We all know the default skin which XBMC comes with in 13.x Gotham. It’s designed to be simple and lightweight to support even the least powerful media device. More importantly to be new user friendly, without all bells and whistles. Some like it, some might not...
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Support for metadata sites 2014

Jul 11, 2014
zag
This is just the yearly reminder to support our 3rd party metadata sites with data contributions or financial donations so they can keep running. XBMC relies on these sites to provide metadata and fanart for things like Music, Movies, Games and TVShows. Most sites have...
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A Little Community Growth

Apr 21, 2014
Nathan Betzen
In this post we aren’t announcing anything or releasing anything or even providing how-to guides. Instead, in honor of our 75,000th fan on Facebook, I’d just like to take a step back and consider the past few years of XBMC community growth. Some History Way back in...
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Meet us at LinuxTag 2014

Apr 15, 2014
Blittan
Once again we will be exhibit between the 8th and 10th of May at LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany. This will be our sixth year attending. This year will be really different, new exhibition halls, new partners droidcon and re:publica . Of course we want you to join us at the...
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More Kodi News

We have been accepted to GSOC 2018!

We are excited to announce that Kodi has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2018 project !...

The Official Kodi Edition Raspberry Pi Case

Since the first Raspberry Pi was announced in 2012, it was inextricably linked with XBMC/Kodi. It...

Two Free Tickets to Join Us at SCALE in the Los Angeles area this week, Plus CES Wrap-up

We’re attending the Southern California Linux Expo aka SCALE as exhibitors this week, so drop by...

Enjoy the holidays and a happy 2016

We hope you all enjoyed the Christmas diner and are now spending some quality time using Kodi as...

Kodi 15 Skin Showcase - Part 2

By default Kodi starts with the Confluence skin which gives users almost everything they need to...

Kodi 15.0 skin showcase

By default Kodi starts with the Confluence skin which gives users almost everything they need to...

Kodi Community - May 2015

Exciting Google Summer of Code projects, major developments in the codebase that need testing, and...

Kodi Visits SCALE, Plus the New Villain Shirt/Hoodie

We wanted to take a minute today to talk about our trip down to Los Angeles for the Southern...

We’ve been accepted to GSOC 2015!

We are excited to announce that Kodi has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2015 project !...

FOSDEM 2015 presentation videos

On the 31st of January and 1st of February a few team-Kodi members visited the Free and Open Source...

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