From kde-devel  Mon Jun 18 17:34:19 2001
From: "case" <case () rpoptions ! com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:34:19 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: RE: KNewsTicker - anyone?
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Hi Frerich,

I'm looking for a way to get involved with the KDE project, and depending on
how complicated KNewsTicker is, I might be willing to volunteer to do this.

I am a university student in 3rd year, presently doing a co-op term doing
Visual Basic programming.  However, in my previous co-op term and in my
classes, it has been all C++ and C.  I am also very interested in learning
Python and Qt or wxwindows.  If I am given the chance to take this on, I can
probably contribute 2h/day most weekdays, and possibly 5h/day on most
weekend days.

Of course, in the beginning, I would probably email you about stuff I need
help with (such as the initial compile).

If we went this route, I guess it would be appropriate to have some kind of
"training" period while you are still the official maintainer and I just get
familiar with the source code and your development practises?

Case

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kde-devel-admin@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
> [mailto:kde-devel-admin@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de]On Behalf Of
> Frerich Raabe
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 10:16 AM
> To: kde-devel@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
> Subject: KNewsTicker - anyone?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> just wanted to ask whether anybody here is bored and feels sufficiently
> motivated to become the maintainer of KNewsTicker. I've been
> working on it
> for a few months now, and it was quite fun, but I noticed that I
> more or less
> have to force myself working on it lately. It's quite boring since a few
> weeks, especially since the program evolved beyond the point I originally
> wanted it to grow to.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I would maintain it if nobody else wants to
> do so, but I
> think a new maintainer with fresh ideas might be a better thing
> than a burned
> out hacker who just doesn't want to see an otherwise nice applet
> go down to
> the dumps.
>
> Believe it or not, but I think there are even a few things about
> KNewsTicker
> (even though it's just a tiny applet) which could make it quite
> interesting
> for others:
>
> - It has established a fairly large (I get about two days per day
> because of
> KNT) userbase
> - KNewsTicker ships with a complete desktop environment called
> "Knewsticker
> Desktop Environment"
> - KNewsTicker got mentioned in various publications, including
> the german c't
> magazine, not to mention the news sites it appeared on.
> - I think it is more or less firmly positioned within the KDE base
> distribution so you can be sure that it'll reside on a lots of
> systems. ;-)
> - The Linux kernel is based on old KNewsTicker code
>
> So, it would be cool if I could find some motivated hacker who would
> volunteer to work on the news ticker from now on (so that I can force my
> energies on a new project), otherwise I'll just have to force
> myself to do so.
>
> - Frerich
>
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