LugRadio, the online radio show of the Wolverhampton Linux User Group has an interview in their latest episode with KDE hacker Aaron Seigo. The appearance consists of a five-minute update on where the KDE desktop is heading, cool stuff they are working on and KDE's relationship with freedesktop.org.
A special treat on tonight's People Behind KDE as we bring you the Debian Qt KDE Packagers. A whole seven interviews in one! How are those packages made and kept up to date? What would the packagers like in KDE 4? What customisations do Debian's finest make to their own desktops? And do they prefer RMS or Linus?
We know him as a Romanian developer for Quanta and contributor to several other KDE projects. His cat began to catch birds some time ago and he calls himself a local-patriot. His wife may not be into KDE coding but he would make sure she was if he had to be stuck on an island with a KDE developer. Tonight's People Behind KDE interview is with András Mantia.
This man maintains KDE's text editor Kate and the associated KTextEditor interface. He also keeps three cats and disappears from his girlfriend for a week each year in the name of KDE. The star of tonight's People Behind KDE interview is Christoph Cullmann.
In an interview with KDE's Jess Hall, Raphael Langerhorst talks about his experiences using KOffice in a Microsoft dominated world.
"The question everyone is asking is, are Open Source office suites really able to survive in a Microsoft world? KDE developer Raphael Langerhorst's experience at home, university and in the business world shows us the future is bright for KDE's KOffice suite."
He is a KDE developer, the founder of the Marketing Team for KDE 4 and a member of KDE's Dutch local group. His chinchilla acts as a role model for Wikipedia and he calls himself a "not-so-standard-but-still-very-much-a-geek". Today's People Behind KDE interview is with Sebastian Kügler.
CosmoPOD.com offers free remote KDE desktops over NX. Anyone can sign up to have their own desktop accessible from any computer with a network connection. CosmoPOP uses KDE's Kiosk framework to ensure security for their system. To find out more about the service and why KDE was the chosen desktop, KDE Dot News spoke to the man behind CosmoPOD, Stephen Ensor. Read on for the interview.
Calling herself a KDE hacker chick, she is known as the woman behind This Month in SVN and as the maintainer of the KDE FAQ. She prefers Linus Torvalds over Richard Stallman because he is cuter and is a "dreamer who sees beauty in the symmetry of mutually recursive functions". Today's People Behind KDE interview is with Jes Hall.
So, you have KDE on your desktop and laptop systems, you've heard
that Apple uses KDE components for its web browser Safari and you've
tried Konq/Embedded on your handheld. But did you know that KDE could
soon be making its way into your mobile phone? At aKademy in August
David Carson and Deepika Chauhan from Nokia presented the work they've
Known in KDE.nl circles as the documentation coordinator for the Dutch localisation project, this man is also a demon player at ultimate frisbee and a reader of Hercule Poirot. He might describe himself as a "nerd trying to have a fairly social life" but he is cute. Tonight's People Behind KDE interview is with Sander Koning.