KDE Social Desktop Starts to Arrive

“One of the strongest assets of the Free Software community is
its worldwide community of contributors and users who belief in
free software and who work hard to bring the software and solutions
to the mainstream. You can find more of this conceptual background
on Frank Karlitschek’s slides from his keynote at Akademy 2008. A
core idea of the Social Desktop is connecting to your peers in the
community, making sharing and exchanging knowledge easier to
integrate into applications and the desktop itself. One of the
ideas Frank addressed was to place a widget on the desktop where
users can find other KDE users in the same city or region, making
it possible to connect to these people, to contact them and to
collaborate.

“If a user is starting KDE for the first time he has questions.
At the moment a lot of the support for KDE users is provided
through forums and mailinglists. Users have to start up a browser
and search for answers for their questions or problems. The
community is relatively loosely connected, it is spread all over
the web, and it is often hard to verify the usefulness and accuracy
of the information found somewhere out on the web. Although is
works relatively well for experienced users, beginners often get
lost.”

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