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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] What is the goal of dot.kde.org?
From:       Jason Keirstead <jason.keirstead () q1labs ! com>
Date:       2004-11-06 1:03:51
Message-ID: 200411052103.51538.jason.keirstead () q1labs ! com
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On Friday 05 November 2004 5:32 pm, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > - A series of interviews with lead developers in some kde KDE projects,
> > describing how their technologies work

...

> Those are very good ideas, do you know someone who would be willing to work
> on these items?

The first topic I think would be really interesting. I have never really seen 
interviews with KDE developers with a focus on the technologies they use in 
their apps - it's usually more "fluff" than technical content. If there was a 
series like this, it could help spread know-how on more advanced KDE 
development, and enable better knowledge transfer. This can only be a good 
thing. Some possible good interviews would be:

 - Interview with a core Kommander dev. Detail the technology, why it was 
developed (what was the need that drove the design?) how it is best utilized 
in a  KDE app, what are some upcoming KDE apps that will be using it, a short 
code sample.

 - Same as above, except with KNewStuff. KNewStuff is a framework I really 
wish more KDE apps would be using, rather than rolling their own thing 
( like, for example, the KDE theme manager should be using it)

- Interview with Thiago or someone about the new KNetwork classes - What drove 
the requirement for them, how do they differ from the previous networking 
classes, what kind of new functionality do they provide and how can a 
developer make use of it.

- Interview with some people involved in standards -steering. Look at how KDE 
integrates with freedesktop.org standards. Look at where we are, where we 
need to go. Highlight some interesting up-and-coming things at freedesktop 
that KDE will be involved in, and developers can take advantage of.

- Interview with one ore more core kde developers on KDE4/QT4 - a preview of 
what they see changing in kdelibs, what they think about the DCOP/DBUS issue, 
what are some new technologies in the pipeline for KDE4, etc.

Maybe something like this could be called the "Developer Series". I would be 
willing to commit myself to doing one of the above a week - wirting up 
interesting interview questions and formatting the story is the easy part. 
The hard part is on the interview-ee, and whether or not they have time to 
answer questions in a detailed technical interview like this.

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