Hi all,<br><br>I would like to present myself and expose my desire to contribute to KDE development.<br><br>My name is Sandro Andrade and I've been using FreeBSD and GNU/Linux since 1997 both as user and developer, and I have special interest in development using the standard C++ language.
<br>I've been working for the past eight years with object oriented-design and implementation using C++ and I am a quite appraiser and full-time user of KDevelop and Qt technologies. Qt3 and KDevelop have been my major development technologies in the last four years and recently I join a research project that relies entirely on Qt4.
<br><br>As part of my master dissertation, I've been designing and developing a reusable component-based platform for industrial data acquisition based on CORBA Component Model (CCM), the CIAO (Component-Integrated ACE ORB) middleware (
<a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html">http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html</a>), and Qt3. Our project, called ARCOS (<a href="http://arcos.sf.net">http://arcos.sf.net</a>), encompass a OMG DAIS (Data Acquisition from Industrial Systems) Standard implementation and qt3-based client applications for industrial supervision.
<br><br>I hope to become an effective KDE contributor and I would be grateful for some initial guidelines. I'm currently compiling the last snapshot for KDE 4.<br><br>Thanks in advance,<br>Sandro Andrade<br>