[dot] KDE Edu Applications Strike in Qt Contest

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1107087331/

From: Daniel Molkentin <molkentin at kde.org>
Dept: all-your-prizes-are-belong-to-us
Date: Sunday 30/Jan/2005, @13:15

KDE Edu Applications Strike in Qt Contest
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   Today QtForum.org [http://www.qtforum.org/], a site dedicated to Qt
development discussions, presented the winners
[http://www.qtforum.org/thread.php?threadid=5081] of the QtForum.org
programming contest award, sponsored by Trolltech
[http://www.trolltech.com/]. The contest selected the best educational
software written with the Qt libraries, and these two programs from the
KDE Edutainment Project [http://edu.kde.org/] took first and second
prize, while third place was shared among two also KDE-based
applications.

     The fist price was awarded to KStars [http://edu.kde.org/kstars/] ,
the outstanding  deskop plantarium. Kig [http://edu.kde.org/kig/], the
KDE interactive geometry  application made the second place.

     "Both KStars and Kig are beautiful, smart, well written, and wise
and enjoyable teachers of timeless subjects of interest and importance
to every age. Both are first class in every respect, going far beyond
their peers in implementation and ideology", said Trolltech's Scott
Collins.

     KStars, a desktop planetarium program, took the $1500 first prize.
"On behalf of the KStars team, I'd like to thank the contest judges and
Trolltech," said lead developer Jason Harris. "This recognition of our
work is extremely exciting and gratifying. The KStars team decided
before entering the contest that we would donate any prize money to KDE
e.V. We feel strongly that we should use our success to nurture the
further development of KDE, without which KStars would never have been
possible. Thank you very much to our users and fellow kde-edu
developers; you've all had a part in KStars."

     Kig, a program for exploring geometric constructions, took the $750
second prize. Maintainer Dominique Devriese was amazed: "The Kig team
and myself feel very proud of winning this prize. Of course, we would
have liked to come in first, but winning against KStars could never have
felt right ;). My personal thanks go out to the rest of the fantastic
Kig team (Maurizio and Pino to name two) and furthermore, we'd like to
thank Kig users and bug reporters, all KDE-Edu people, the contest jury
and TrollTech and all of our fellow open source developers."

     The third place was shared by another two KDE educational
applications: Keymaster
[http://linux.perlak.com/project.php?prj_name=keymaster], a typing
teacher, convinced the judges while vocabulary trainer  KSalomon
[http://ksalomon.sourceforge.net/] amazed the community. Both were
awarded $500.