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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] who wants to write...
From:       Stuart Jarvis <stuart.jarvis () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-04-25 15:30:16
Message-ID: 201004251630.16584.stuart.jarvis () gmail ! com
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On Saturday 24 April 2010 23:16:59 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> Looking good. Wait a while for other input, then just send it in and
> we'll review it and put it online :D

Yeah, ready for Dot editors to get their grubby fingers on it I think :-)

I think Jos was referring to
http://www.kdenews.org/2009/12/02/krita-team-seeking-sponsorship-take-krita-
 next-level when he mentioned Krita in an earlier email, rather than the 
meeting funds request. The support for Lukas is close to what mtux is \
doing.  Is it ok for us to adjust it for that reference or would you like \
to?

Thanks,
Stu

> 
> 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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