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

2. 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

3. 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?

4. 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

5. Increase of C++ and Java in Debian

6. 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:

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

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

9. 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
list
documentation

10. Presentations of results
KDE-apps
Qt-apps

11. 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

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

13. 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

14. 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

15. Questions?
Thank you :)

16. Importance of learned skills
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
International Institute of Infonomics University of Maastricht, The Neth