John Terpstra, one of the long-term members of the Samba Team, never shies away
from speaking his mind. He is known not only for his work on documenting Samba, and his
long experience as a Senior Consultant, but also for his outspoken views on
intellectual property. Intrigued by an
article he published on Groklaw
In their own series of aKademy interviews, the German IT news website Golem.de has talked to KDE contributors Fabian Franz (also a member of the Knoppix development team) and Kurt Pfeifle about FreeNX. Now OSnews carries the English translation.
In his speech at aKademy, Bernhard Reiter of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) both celebrated Software Freedom Day and reminded the KDE community of what freedom in software means. The FSFE was founded in 2001 to promote and defend Free Software, and to coordinate national Free Software organizations, throughout Europe.
During the
KDE Contributor and Developer Conference at aKademy one
of the speakers Avi Alkalay talked about his project
Linux Registry. We met him
afterwards and asked him several questions about this project.
Continuing our series of interviews for aKademy, we caught up with Eirik Chambe-Eng, President and Co-Founder of Trolltech, to pick his brain about Qt and Trolltech. Eirik apologized for "getting carried away" with our questions, describing himself as "passionate about these issues". So read on and enjoy...
What was your reason to develop Qt back in 1994 and to distribute this
as the only product with your company?
As UserConf
has kicked off today at aKademy we had
the privilege to sit down with Will Stephenson,
a prominent hacker who works on the KDE instant messenger Kopete.
We talked about Kopete, its current status and future plans for Kopete and Will had some very good news for us...
Please introduce yourself.
A new issue of the series "Application of the Month" has been released. It covers Konversation and interviews its maintainer Dario Abatianni. Konversation is a user friendly IRC client for KDE. You can read it in Dutch, English and German.
The Richmond Post, a news site covering adoption of the Mozilla XUL UI description language is current featuring an interview with KDE's own George Staikos. George is well known for his work on applications such as kdetv and KWallet, but he is also working on a facility that allows XUL applications to use native KDE widgets.
The People Behind KDE is going on summer recess. We end the current series of interviews with a subject I am passionate about, and think it's one of the most important and underrated projects within KDE, accessibility. We'll meet the person behind the name with the Dt, one of the driving forces behind KDE's Accessibility Project, the man who loves Penguins and classical music, Gunnar Schmi Dt!