The second in the new series of People Behind KDE brings us Thiago Macieira. Thiago is a Brazilian who spends his time reading the kde-bugs-dist mailing list. Somehow he also finds time to look after the networking code in kdelibs and his dog Kayla. He also tells us why he has two clocks and includes a Unix story in Old English.
The People Behind KDE interviews are back with a new series. First in the hot seat is aKademy organiser Antonio Larrosa. For the new series the original interviewer Tink has handed over management to KDE-NL.
KConfig XT is an increasingly commonly used technology in KDE programmes. KDE Dot News talked to creator Cornelius Schumacher (also recently interviewed on KDE PIM) to find out the advantages of KConfig XT over plain old KConfig. Read on for the full interview -- and if you think your programme might benefit from KConfig XT, Zack's tutorial is a good place to start.
The KDE-Artists website is featuring an interview with Ryan Nickell, one of the current authors of SuperKaramba and Smooth Blend.
On 27 June, 2005 at 9:30 pm CST, Lobby4Linux will host a Live Chat with two developers of KMyMoney. This personal finance application is quickly becoming the “Quicken Killer” for Linux.
Matt Harrison's blog features a rather interesting interview with two KHTML developers, Ivor Hewitt (of AdBlocK fame) and Allan Sandfeld Jensen (of ACID2 fame). They talk about how they got involved in KDE, the projects they've worked on and the situation between KDE and Apple.
Our final interview in this series with the hackers at the on-going Dutch KDE PIM meeting is with none other than KDE-PIM module project leader of Cornelius Schumacher. Enjoy the interview.
Daniel Molkentin, from the beautiful city of Königswinter in Germany, is one of the maintainers of Kontact and has also been involved in many other parts of KDE. He is one of the developers visiting the NL-PIM meeting this weekend.
Will Stephenson is one of the attendees at the KDE PIM Event. 4 years ago he started with contributing to Kopete, the instant messaging client for KDE. His recent contributions made it possible to let Kopete communicate with Kontact. In this interview, he will tell you about Kopete and his exciting plans for the upcoming meeting.
Will Stephenson of Kopete
Till Adam only started hacking on the KDE mail client, KMail, because he wanted some features implemented from the command-line client Mutt. Now he is one of the main developers of the KDE-PIM project, which KMail is part of. KDE Dot News caught up with Till to talk about e-mail protocols, groupware and implementing them in KDE.