"- In what ways do you make a contribution to KDE?
"I write code, participate in the ongoing usability efforts, write KDE-related articles and PR pieces and harass people on the mailing lists and IRC.
"- When did you first hear of KDE?
"Sometime around the 1.0 release. At that time I used Linux and UNIX as servers only and made do with Macs and Windows machines on the desktop. As such, I had little to no personal need for a graphical environment on UNIX at that time. I played with KDE on a Linux box a bit, primarily out of curiosity, but that was about it. When I moved to Linux as my primary workstation OS in 1997 I was a hardcore blackbox user, though I did end up using one KDE application during my blackbox days: KMail..."
