Interviews

linmagau.org features an interview with George Staikos (print version) about Qt and the future of KDE and Linux/Unix desktops in general.

Linux Journal features an interview with Matthias Ettrich, the founder of the KDE desktop environment. Aleksey Dolya interviews Matthias about the process of creating KDE and what he's up to these days. Asked about current popularity of KDE, Matthias answers: "Beyond all expectations, really. We see more and more contributors, more languages, more applications. And we see KDE code move onto other platforms.

In this fascinating interview, Eric Laffoon and András Mantia give us a glimpse into the world of the Quanta Plus project. Read on for everything from tantalising references to Kommander, billed by Eric to be part of the foundations for the next generation desktop and user experience, to details of future plans for Quanta VPL (Visual Page Layout).

tinyminds.org is featuring an interview with Shamyl Zakariya on the development of SlicKer, an alternative to KDE's Kicker panel.

FOSDEM 2003 will take place February 8 and 9, 2003 in Brussels, Belgium. The two-day summit will bring together leading developers in the Open Source community. As in previous years, FOSDEM attendees will have the opportunity to attend to the talks of the leading developers of major Open Source and Free Software projects. This year David Faure is confirmed for KDE.

Sirtaj Singh Kang, better known to many of us as "Taj", joined the KDE
project as a developer early in its history (read his People interview
here). He was recently
interviewed
by The Sydney Morning Herald Online.
Interview topics range from why get involved in Open Source (I work on

Open for Business interviews

OSnews is running an
interview
with the dot's very own
Waldo Bastian.
Besides his long-running contributions to a large range
of the KDE libraries and other desktop infrastructure, Waldo is
well known as the KDE 2 "release dude", for helping keep the KDE
infrastructure operating, and as an inexhaustible supply

Despite being up to her ears into the moving boxes, Tink managed to publish the last two interviews of
this season
today. You can learn more about
Jason Katz-Brown
who recently enriched KDE CVS with Kolf. And about
Masaji Takeyama
who brings KDE to the masses in Japan. Enjoy!

Ever wonder what a KDE developer looked like in a Christmas party setting? Ever wonder if Mosfet had a good-looking sister?
Hop on over to this week's interview with
Lukáš Tinkl,
on the
People Behind KDE
page, and find out why Lukáš likes it hot and if it's possible to be
single AND have a girlfriend.
Lukáš is co-maintainer of