Trolltech and the community effort Ten years with KDE! For free use. Credit the author

InOut in Norway / FAIR with foreign aid Certain successes Skolelinux from Norway to Eritrea in Norway's largest ICT transfer ever Twenty tons of computer equipment was sent InOut in Norway / FAIR with foreign aid

The Plan Trolltech's “headache” The immense demand for more C++ programmers Getting Universiteis/Collges to use Qt/Qtopia/KDE as a developer platform How should KDE work with the community?

LINUX IS THE ANSWER FOR SMARTPHONES… Smartphone Unit Shipments 2004 2005 Palm OS 4% RIM 2% Microsoft 4% Palm OS 6% RIM 1% Microsoft 7% Symbian 68% Linux 22% Linux 5% Symbian 81% 16.7 million shipments 49.0 million shipments Source: Gartner 2006

Increase of C++ and Java in Debian

Dice.com Aug 1th (job announcements) Use of FOSS Dice.com Aug 1th (job announcements) Jobs for Linux tech pro's have jumped 36% the last 6 months. Jumped 55% last 12 months In general the growth are 13% and 18% respectively Gartner Group on global use Java dev tools decreased by 2% FOSS dev tools increased by 21% IDC: Developers 71% In production 54% Source: www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3609211 http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/5663/469

Community plan part one Employers need C++ programmers. Motivate Universities and Colleges to teach Qt

Open Content CourceWare Teachers at one university shares their presentations, lab assignments and notes with other teachers 67.000 teachers in primary and secondary shools already do this in Sweden

Student projects Suggest KDE/Qt/Qtopia projects for students. KDE developers mentored 24 projects like this in 2006 Need a web site with: repository (svn) wiki with projectplans, design, download e-maillist documentation

Presentations of results KDE-apps Qt-apps

Give full access to Qt/KDE dev.tools Install every tools in the toolchain OUT OF THE BOX Directly from distroes (LSB++) Run smoothly on 128 MB RAM Target: 100$ devices

Possible targets for KDE 4 apps 100$ Laptop 128 MB RAM Greenphone 64 MB RAM

Plan for the Universities & Colleges Open Content CourceWare Student project site Presenting the results KDE-apps Qt-apps Full Qt/Qtopia dev.tools out of the box

Community plan part two Hired two community managers Sponsoring David Vignoni is hired to get the KDE 4 icons ready Suggesting more developer gatherings targeting bottlenecks More things will happen I will work through KDE e.V

Questions? Thank you :)

Importance of learned skills Rishab Aiyer Ghosh rishab@dxm.org International Institute of Infonomics University of Maastricht, The Neth