For people following my The Road to KDE Devland series, I just wanted to let you know about the current status of the project. Summer holidays are almost over, and I have an exam coming up soon, which means that I haven’t had much time to study Qt or blogging recently. After the exam next week I’ll write step 4 about what I’ve accomplished in Qt – nothing big, but I promised screenshots didn’t I? 😉

Next step is by no means the final one, but when the semester starts I’ll most likely be busy with Real Life™ again. Of course I’ll continue to give you updates of my progress, but be prepared that the time between each step will be much longer.

The interest in the series was much higher than expected. If you’re also working on becoming a KDE developer, I strongly encourage you to share your progress. If you already do, please post a link in the comments and I’ll include it in the next step. Yay.

If you’ve visited KDE Brainstorm, you might have wondered what all categories are for, or how an idea is processed when it’s been posted. So I decided to make a chart that hopefully will answer your questions:

From idea to reality

The Forum Team is constantely working on improving Brainstorm – if you have any suggestions, don’t forget to post a topic in Feedback & Questions; or, if it’s a feature request, why not post it in Brainstorm? 🙂 Just don’t forget to add the tag “kde brainstorm” to make it easy for the Team to find your idea.

If you have any questions or comments regarding the chart, post a comment below.

Update September 29, 2009: The updated chart can be found in Brainstorm FAQ. Click on “Take a tour“.

As this is my first post my first post on planet KDE (not entirely true), I figured I should introduce myself.

I’m Hans Chen, a 21-year-old long term KDE user from Sweden. I’ve been a physics student for two years at Stockholm University but will move on to meteorology after the summer.

My interest for KDE began after finding the Commit-Digests on the Dot. Not long after I stumbled upon planet KDE, and since then I’ve been hooked – this was a project I wanted to contribute to and be a part of.

Nowadays I help out with the KDE Community Forums. Since I’m interested in programming, I currently study C++ and Qt in hope of becoming a full-fledged KDE developer someday. If you share the same wish, stay tuned – I’ll blog about my progress soon when I find the time and motivation.

You can find me on various places as Mogger (IRC, identica, openDesktop) or simply Hans (KDE Forums, Dot).