[KDE-India] KDE 4.0 Release Schedule

[Rajeev J Sebastian]

Hello all,

When I saw Pradeep's and Manish's emails this morning, I was
pleasantly surprised, as well as quite ashamed at the same time. I
didn't know that I was subscribed to kde-in mailing list - that was
surprising. There is no activity on this list - that is shameful.

For a while now, I have been a part of the Pardus community (Pardus is
a new distro with a new look on things). Its a turkish community, and
language is difficult to understand. But the language of code, of
community, is not.

Within the Pardus community, there is a group, a clan if you will,
called pisidepo (#pisidepo on freenode). Its a loose group of
packagers. One is an intelligent 14 year old boy ErenTurkay, and my
close friend is murat, a foreign trade specialist working in the
textiles industry. Also there is jnmbk, a compsci/engg student in the
second year, and many others.

I am not going to be modest. Within a month of me joining, I got 1 of
them to switch to python and PyQt (from PHP). I got another to learn
Python and PyQt. (To their credit, pisi packaging involves a very
small amount of python programming).

Since January, quite a few projects have been started by this motley
crew (quoting from the channel topic):

pyschool (planning): http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyschool/ ||
pyKafe (under construction): http://sourceforge.net/projects/pykafe/
|| Latest pisibul:
http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pisibul/pisibul-0.2.3.1-9.pisi
|| Kpaste: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=52154 ||
LitConverter: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=50822

All of these are projects moving forward with tremendous force.
LitConverter was mostly done in a weeks time, and will probably not
require updating in the near future.

#kde-in on freenode has been around for ages. Few come there. I think
you get the gist. It is *not* necessary, and it is quite unadvisable
to do big projects. Applications like LitConverter give you the
experience of developing a project from scratch in as little time as a
week (after job, family, girlfriend, fun and games, chatting and
screwing around on IRC, etc ... murat has/does all those, as does
everyone else on pisidepo).

So, let me add a conclusion to Pradeepto's email on KDE4 ... KDE4 will
come (maybe soon, maybe later) .... but, *you* can make it a reality;
*you* decide what goes into KDE.

So please do step up and come to #kde-in. KDE waits for you ... or
maybe, she does not!

Regards
Rajeev J Sebastian

PS: Shriramana Sharma is asking questions on the PyQt mailing list.
Good show! Please forward the mails to this list as well, firstly so
there is some activity here, and secondly, so anyone around here can
help you ... maybe even give you hands-on support.

PS: Btw, if you do not want to code C++, Python is a perfectly good
alternative which is easy to learn and apply. AND ... I have it from a
very good source (Aaron Seigo) that there will be atleast one PyKDE
app in the default KDE4 distribution. If you want that to be your app,
it doesnt have to be big or uber-leet. A simple application which
meets the purpose, a one-week app even, is acceptable.

PS: ... and please give Pradeepto some credit. When I go to a
KDE-related channel and say I am from #kde-in, people seem to know
what that is, and mentions the good work of KDE-in. It's only because
of Pradeepto.