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Laurent Montel, mistery man
by Leo S on Monday 25/Sep/2006, @10:50

Someone from people behind kde should track down Laurent for an interview. He constantly makes an insane number of commits and works on just about every part of KDE, but there is just about no information out there on who he is. I for one, am curious.

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Re: Laurent Montel, mistery man
by Alan Horkan on Monday 25/Sep/2006, @20:20

> Someone [...] should track down Laurent for an interview.

I agree. He has no blog and it was very difficult to get any relevant link for him.

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Re: Laurent Montel, mistery man
by ervin on Tuesday 26/Sep/2006, @00:25

AFAIK he has been asked for a "People Behind KDE" interview but declined the offer. I think he just wants to get work done, not being under the lights. I understand and respect this.

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Re: Laurent Montel, mistery man
by lippel on Tuesday 26/Sep/2006, @00:55

There is a kspread-related interview:

http://www.kde.org.uk/apps/kspread/interview.html

It also contains a few lines about him, but not much.

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Re: Laurent Montel, mistery man
by Alan Horkan on Tuesday 26/Sep/2006, @18:27

> I think he just wants to get work done, not being under the lights. I understand and respect this.

Giving him a big award probably doesn't help if he is determined to be private.
KDE and Mandriva should be very disappointed at a missed opportunity to promote the project. I assume he does want KDE to succeed and he as an opportunity to do that and it would be a shame to miss it. It should be possible to an article that promotes his work - without getting into his personal life - and maybe encourage contributors to help in areas he would most like to see more work being done. Hopefully developers can explain other ways how he could see an interview as an opportunity and use it to his advantage.

I really hope the marketing team will approach him again and strongly encourage him to give an interview.

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Re: Laurent Montel, mistery man
by Montel Laurent on Wednesday 27/Sep/2006, @10:17

Hi,
I am very happy for this award.
I want to thank guy which offert it.

Thanks to Staikos Computing and Linux New Media.

I don't think that I am a mistery man :)

I like KDE and I want just that it works very well
that's all.

If marketing team wants to make an interview, I will
be very happy.

Regards.

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Re: Laurent Montel, mistery man
by lezard on Thursday 28/Sep/2006, @07:25

Great! I often wonder why I read so few about you and your ideas about Mandriva and KDE. Thanks a lot for your work and I have to say that KDE under Mandriva 2007 is brilliant!

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