People Behind KDE: Summer of Code 2007 (2/4)

Saturday, 18 August 2007  |  Dallen

People Behind KDE releases the second interview in its series of four interviews with students who are working on KDE as part of the Google Summer of Code 2007 - meet Bertjan Broeksema, Carlos Licea, Pierre Ducroquet and Gavin Beatty!

Comments:

man in the garden - nick - 2007-08-18

that man in the garden looks really scary to me

Re: man in the garden - Ian Monroe - 2007-08-18

As a fellow bearded man, I resent the comment.

Re: man in the garden - Gavin Beatty - 2007-08-18

As _the_ fellow bearded man, I've had that comment before!

Re: man in the garden - Jake - 2007-08-19

I think he was referring to the merciless use of barbecue sauce, not the beard.

Thank you all - Kevin Krammer - 2007-08-18

Thanks to all the students participating in this special Behind KDE series! Your interviews will help people remember that starting to contribute to KDE is not as scary as it might look at the first glance. Usually our most visible contributors are people who have been with the project for quite some time, so it is probably easy to forget that most of us did not start as gurus. Seeing what you all managed to accomplish in in this relatively short period of time, will hopefully encourage others to give it a try themselves. And obviously also many thanks to Danny, for handling all the work behind (pun intended) the scenes.

IM app idea - Patcito - 2007-08-18

"An idea my mentor, Cristian Tibirna, had about IM apps" what is that about? :)

Thanks - Sebastian Sauer - 2007-08-19

Thanks to google for providing us with Pierre such a great ODF-hacker! :)

Re: Thanks - Richard Van Den Boom - 2007-08-19

I must say that I'm really pleased to hear about his work. I suppose hacking input/output filter must be kind of boring, and having someone focusing on this is extremely good news. I'm looking forward to KOffice 2.0, it seems full of promises.

Windows Users - Albert Cervera i Areny - 2007-08-19

I find the interview with Carlos Licea specially interesting. It seems he's one of the few that comes almost directly from the Windows world, and I'm sure he'll stay with our community for quite some time. We'll probably get used to this as soon as KDE 4 starts working nicely on Windows, but it's even better when new comers to Linux start contributing so early. Surely they'll find a community they couldn't even imagine on the propietary world!