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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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