“What is your role within KDE?”
“Hmm, just developer, hacking here and there, enjoying the fun
that it is when being part of a team.”
“How and when did you get involved in KDE?”
“As usual (at least for a german KDE developer 🙂 I read that
famous KDE article by Kalle in the c’t magazine (his first KDE
article in the c’t, he wrote quite some brilliant ones!) . At that
time my devel platform was good old DOS, and I was involved in the
demo scene. I was very impressed by the screenshots and soon after
that downloaded it. It was just the right new platform I was
looking for (as all the other scene people went over to Windows,
which I did not like at all) . I followed the development passively
for a while and did my first steps in the CVS repository with a
koffice application template. I figured some things were missing in
the OpenParts framework at that time (in particular a statusbar 🙂
, so I started hacking and sent a patch to Torben. That was about
the beginning, and it changed my life.”
“How much time do you spend on KDE?”
“Not enough :)”