dot.KDE: KDE Under The Microscope

“While the KDE project continues to research and develop the
ideal desktop environment, now the KDE community and development
processes themselves have been studied and researched by at least
two different efforts: Christian Reinhardt of University of
Innsbruck chose to study KDE for his ‘Collaborative Knowledge
Creation in Virtual Communities of Practice’ Master’s thesis.
Christian would be very grateful for feedback in his discussion
forum.

“Meanwhile, Dipl. Soz. Andreas Brand of Johann W. v. Goethe
University also chose to study KDE in ‘The structure, entrance,
production, motivation and control in an Open Source project’ which
he has already presented at this year’s LinuxTag as well as at the
KDE Conference (English slides available). You can read an English
summary of his German paper below as translated by the KDE i18n
German team…”

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