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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] who wants to write...
From:       Dan Borne <danborne.kde () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-04-24 20:54:14
Message-ID: 201004241654.15509.dan.borne () kdemail ! net
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Exams may have slowed the revision process down a bit, but here is the 
penultimate version; if anyone has final suggestions, here is your final 
chance before it gets sent off.

Anyone who has taken a class in economics is familiar with the difference 
between the direct cost of something and its 'opportunity cost'. Developing 
free software is a great example of this difference. A KDE developer does not 
have to spend hundreds of dollars on an SDK, he only needs to give up some of 
his time to develop. The time given up could have been used working or doing 
another leisure activity; however, many choose to develop anyway. Other KDE 
developers have asked for community support to do developer conferences (the 
Krita team, for example, http://www.krita.org/component/content/article/10-
news/41-libre-graphics-meeting-2010) but Mehrdad Momeny (mtux on IRC) has gone 
a step further and thought up a way to feed developers. I was interested in 
his idea, so I had a nice IRC discussion with him last Thursday and asked him 
about it.


1. Who is are you?
I am Mehrdad Momeny, a Persian Free Software enthusiast and the developer of 
ChoqoK currently serving conscription. 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 KUbuntu 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 users 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.
 
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