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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] who wants to write...
From:       Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-04-24 22:16:59
Message-ID: k2t5847e5cf1004241516ned08cf87qda3e3a60bb13f9d3 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Looking good. Wait a while for other input, then just send it in and
we'll review it and put it online :D

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Dan Borne <danborne.kde@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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