[Kstars-devel] Re: [kde-edu]: article for the Dot.

[Jason Harris]

Hello,

Ok, incorporating Domi's text, the article now looks like this:

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Title:  KStars and Kig Win Qt Programming Contest
Department: we'd-like-to-thank-the-academy

Lead Summary:
<a href="http://edu.kde.org/kstars">KStars</a> and <a 
href="http://edu.kde.org/kig">Kig</a> have won the <a 
href="http://www.qtforum.org/thread.php?postid=21864">QtForum.org Programming 
Contest</a>, sponsored by <a href="http://www.trolltech.com">Trolltech</a>!  
The contest selected the best Educational software written with the Qt 
libraries, and these two programs from the <a href="http://edu.kde.org">KDE 
Edutainment Project</a> took first and second prize.

Main Body:

The judges explained their choice, saying "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."

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 <a 
href="http://www.kde.org/areas/kde-ev/">KDE e.V.</a>  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.  "Hoorah!" cried out maintainer Dominique Devriese.
"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..."
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Please send any further comments; I'll likely submit this to the dot in about 
3 or 4 hours...

Jason
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KStars: KDE Desktop Planetarium
http://edu.kde.org/kstars