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The People Behind KDE: Eric Laffoon

Posted by Tink on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @13:55
from the I-don't-moderate-well dept.
This week we stay in the USA and travel to the west coast, to Hillsboro, Oregon, hometown of Eric Laffoon. We all know Eric Laffoon as the Quanta+ Team Leader. In this interview we get to see a glimpse of the more private site of Eric. He's a multitasker, gets excited by catnip, describes himself as a 'wild and crazy guy', is best known for his good cigars and still looks good in spandex ;-)

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great!
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @14:37

Eric os one of the most nice and talktive people in open-source world, he always deserves a nice interview so we can get to know him a bit more.
Kongrats (or should it be Qongrats?) to Eric, KDE and Quanta people!

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Re: great! by Eric Laffoon on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @18:21

kdewebdev ???
by mi on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @15:21

Isnt it a trademarked name of an already existing web developpment app?
Was kdreamweaver already taken?
I propose GNU/frontpage!

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Re: kdewebdev ??? by cm on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @16:08

Re: kdewebdev ??? by cm on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @16:09
Re: kdewebdev ??? by mi on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @18:32

Re: kdewebdev ??? by mi on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @18:33

Re: kdewebdev ??? by mi on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @18:35

Re: kdewebdev ??? by Eric Laffoon on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @19:59

Re: kdewebdev ??? by mi on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @10:32

Re: kdewebdev ??? by cm on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @21:52

Re: kdewebdev ??? by David on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @10:26

Re: kdewebdev ??? by Eric Laffoon on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @12:19

Re: kdewebdev ??? by David on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @12:50
Re: kdewebdev ??? by Kurt Pfeifle on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @13:46

Desktop Summit
by Kraig on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @15:35

Eric are you going to attend the Desktop Summit in San Diego this April?

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Re: Desktop Summit by Eric Laffoon on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @18:38

Re: Desktop Summit by anon on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @12:09
Re: Desktop Summit by David on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @13:39

Re: Desktop Summit by Eric Laffoon on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @15:17

Re: Desktop Summit by David on Tuesday 16/Mar/2004, @06:07

Re: Desktop Summit by anon on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @18:29
Re: Desktop Summit by Alexander Neundorf on Tuesday 16/Mar/2004, @04:38

Re: Desktop Summit by David on Wednesday 17/Mar/2004, @04:28

Mushrooms
by Kraig on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @15:55

I'm with ya on mushroom hunting spent many a day looking for those little yellow suckers in northwest woods.I spent a summer working at Mount Saint Helens Monument in the mid 90's where i learned about the fun of hunting and getting lost. Now i live in San Diego but i so miss the Northwest. Mountain Biking up there is the best in the US.

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Re: Mushrooms by Eric Laffoon on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @18:47
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Re: Mushrooms by Jilks on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @22:44
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Re: Mushrooms by Eric Laffoon on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @23:55

Re: Mushrooms by Kraig on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @15:40

KIO quanta leap
by Tim Middleton on Sunday 14/Mar/2004, @23:32

Had one of those eye blinking of incredulity moments when i read this:

"KIO is KDE's big secret, but I think what it needs is a protocol selector in the file dialogs so people realize they can use it."

Such a simple idea, so obvious, so potentially helpful... yet i never thought of it before. Why hasn't anyone thought of this before! Maybe they have, but I have not been aware of it.

I'm not sure a selector would be all that helpful (except to show people what's available -- and knowledge is certainly power, but not necessarily ease-of-use). I'm thinking an actual "URL builder" dialog that could be popped up. Allow people to select protocol, host, path, etc. Sort of like the regex builder popup one can access in Kmail filters.

Maybe someone could do this in Kommander. <-:

And now that I think of it, wouldn't per-protocol bookmarks and/or history be nice? I do that somewhat now with folders and bookmark names... but it's always an awkward mess...

One of the handiest KIO slaves that though I usd KDE for years I only recently noticed is man: ... wish I knew about that one a long time ago!

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Re: KIO quanta leap by Eric Laffoon on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @00:13

Re: KIO quanta leap by a.c. on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @01:21
Re: KIO quanta leap by David on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @14:02
Re: KIO quanta leap by Dawit A. on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @23:35

Re: KIO quanta leap by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 16/Mar/2004, @00:20

Thanks Eric
by Alex on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @00:55

Thank you for all your support for KDE.

And I am also grateful that you participate so often in many KDE discussions, you bring a lot of insight and some humor along the way. :)

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Re: Thanks Eric by Eric Laffoon on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @10:43

Europe
by Johannes on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @03:22

It is important to have someone in the States that represents KDE with a loud voice so that American ideology or anti-european sentiment cannot be exercised against Free Software as KDE is also part of US society and does not belong any state.

I am not sure whether programming is safe over there (DMCA ecc.) but in the rest of the world similar rules are adopted, so it may not be good either.

However I would like to meet Eric in Europe too, who deserves so much credit from the community. You know distance creates power and I would like to get to know Eric as all the other nice KDE guys, rather than a star on distance. In my christian belief it is a blasphemic sin to admire a star, we have to be all brothers as Jesus told.

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Re: Europe by Eric Laffoon on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @10:43
Re: Europe by Kraig on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @17:05

Again?
by David on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @04:11

Goodness. You're getting a lot of media attention these days Eric!

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Re: Again? by Eric Laffoon on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @09:41

Great!
by Goran J on Monday 15/Mar/2004, @09:31

Very interesting, and also a really good read!

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