'Re: [kde-promo] who wants to write...'

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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] who wants to write...
From:       Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-04-16 16:17:41
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Dan Borne <danborne.kde@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is what we have after the interview. Any suggestions, edits, etc?

Nice work!

As for comments, I would love to see an introduction saying why you
interview Mehrdad - the new initiative started to fund Chocok would be
that. Point to the blogs and explain how it works. Point to the recent
thing the KOffice/Krita ppl did with Luka (see Boud's blogs, link to
one of them if you like). The goal is to not only bring this
initiative to the light and give people a chance to participate but
also to put it in the perspective of 'developers need food' and the
different ways we're trying to provide that. You might have seen my
blogs 'on being free', in fact those are related - talking about money
and what it does and does not do etc.

of course you don't have to go all mental and insightful - and maybe
others on this list have something to say about this topic?

Otherwise, i think it's fine - spelling and grammar will be fixed by
the dot editors anyway.

Thanks a lot for doing this. Make sure you have a dot account and
mention it's account name to the dot editors when you submit it!

Cheers,
Jos

> 1. Who is are you?
> I am Mehrdad Momeny, a Persian Free Software enthusiast and the developer of
> ChoqoK currently serving conscript duty. I am 24 years old and live in
> Mashhad, Iran, east of Tehran. I'm also one of the developers of Blogilo (KDE
> Blog client) and MDIC (a simply dictionary application).
> 
> 
> 2. Give us a history of ChoqoK.
> About a year ago - two weeks before the first release of ChoqoK - I felt that
> no Twitter client filled my needs. So I started to write a tiny one for
> myself. After I finished the first version, I put it up on KDE-Apps and there
> was some interest in it; there was no KDE client other than the KDE
> Microblogging plasmoid. The next version was added to the KUbutu repositories
> by Harald Sitter.
> In short, ChoqoK filled a gap for not only me, but it seems to have filled a
> gap for other KDE users too!
> 
> 
> 3. What did you have in mind for the future?
> What the users want! ChoqoK has been the answer the needs of many users, but
> there are many features that can be added if users want those features to be
> developed. I started developing ChoqoK because I wanted a micro-blogging
> client with notifications and a 'Quick Post' feature. In the future I would
> like to add anything the users would like.
> 
> 
> Like many developers, I can only write code in my free time. As I am in the
> military that can be particularly problematic; I don't always get leisure time
> to develop ChoqoK, but I don't want to leave it unmaintained or stop its
> development.
> 
> 
> 4. So how would you like us to help you develop the features we would like?
> I understand some kinds of useres might like to have new features and ideas
> integrated sooner than would otherwise be and I could make that happen if they
> were willing to support me in developing.
> 
> 
> I've launched a forum (http://choqok.gnufolks.org/forum/) where users can post
> ideas of features they would like implemented. They can discuss the ideas
> there and we can figure out how much of a donation it would take for them to
> be developed. Once we have an idea and a donation I can begin and quickly
> finish development of the feature.
> 
> 
> 
> Le Lundi, 12. Avril 2010 11 57 57, Jos Poortvliet a écrit :
> > about Choqok!!!
> > 
> > The author of choqok has asked if an article for the dot could be
> > written about his initiative to get a bit of cash for adding features
> > to choqok:
> > http://choqok.gnufolks.org/2010/04/speeding-up-choqok-development/
> > 
> > More here:
> > http://momeny.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/an-idea-to-speed-up-choqok-developme
> > nt/ http://momeny.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/lets-extend-choqok-together/
> > 
> > So who's up for writing a piece about this? You can do it
> > interview-style, or just go and write about the announcement, do
> > whatever feels good*.
> > 
> > Let me know!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Jos
> > 
> > * I'm talking about writing, you dirty you!
> > 
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