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Subject:    [kde-promo] Request: Need an explanation text about Kate/KDevelop
From:       Milian Wolff <mail () milianw ! de>
Date:       2009-10-21 22:23:19
Message-ID: 200910220023.24144.mail () milianw ! de
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Hello KDE-Promo!

I'll try to organize a joined Kate & KDevelop hacksprint in Berlin. I work at 
the Physics faculty of the FU-Berlin [1], at the IT department. I thought it 
would be no problem to get a room for a week, but it looks like I 
underestimated the bureaucracy ;-)

My superior has nothing against the meeting, but he is not in the position to 
decide whether I could occupy a room for one week. I'll have to hand in a 
request to whoever is responsible for this.

And this is where I need your help: I'll have to explain:

* what is a HackSprint
* why is it important
* what is KDE / Kate / KDevelop
* why are they important for Science / Physics

It really looks to me like all you promo wizards and witches could help me out 
a lot here. I'll hope to organize this event at my university, and for that 
I'll have to persuade the bureaucracy. If you could write me something, that 
explains the importance of such an event it would help me a lot. If you couple 
it with the benefits science in general and the FU in perticular would have 
from it, I doubt someone would reject my request. As a benefit for the FU I'd 
for one suggest the good promo they get, and imo that's not to neglect.

It would be cool if the text would be in German, but otoh I doubt it's much of 
a difference, since in Science/Physics pretty much everyone has to speak 
English for the papers. So any help is welcome!

To answer my questions above in a quick'n'dirty way:

* what is a HackSprint
A gettogether/meeting of open source developers, from all over the world, 
working on a project. All these developers do it in their free time, without 
getting payed for it. I.e. renting a place to hold the meeting is out of the 
question.

* why is it important
- It greatly accellerates development, makes API reviews much easier and 
faster
- it's great to get to know the other developers, esp. those from other 
countries
- it brings a social aspect to the development process, hardening the bond to 
the project, hence making it less likely that developers jump off

* what is KDE
=> you do that much better than me :D
probably highlight scientific projects? like the new cantor, or that physics 
simulator, Kile!!

* what is Kate
To cite the kate website:
"The Kate project develops two main products: KatePart, the advanced editor 
component which is used in numerous KDE applications requiring a text editing 
component, and Kate, a MDI text editor application. In addition, we provide 
KWrite, a simple SDI editor shell which allows the user to select his/her 
favourite editor component."

=> probably have to strip that down, for non-programmers to understand.

Maybe stress that it supports lots of scientific languages (Ansys, B-Method, 
GAP, GDL, Matlab, Maxima, Octave, Scilab, TI Basic) in addition to common 
programming languages like Haskell, Fortran, C, C++, ... Which are all 
potentially used in Scientific projects at the university.

* what is KDevelop
again, from the website:
"KDevelop
    is a free, opensource IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for MS 
Windows, Mac OsX, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD. It is a feature-full, plugin 
extendable IDE for C/C++ and other programing languages. It is based on 
KDevPlatform, KDE and Qt libraries and is under development since 1998.
KDevPlatform
    is a free, opensource set of libraries that can be used as a foundation 
for IDE-like programs. It is programing-language independent, and is planned 
to be used by programs like: KDevelop, Quanta, Kile, KTechLab ... etc."

Stress the possibility to push KDevplatform to integrate it with Kile, I bet 
they know that LaTeX editor at my univeristy ;-) It would easily become the 
best LaTeX editor out there!

Thanks and have a nice day

[1]: http://www.fu-berlin.de
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail@milianw.de
http://milianw.de

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