Virtual Gallery of Developers

Roberto Alsina

Born in 1971, studied mathematics only to find out I have some talent, but not really enjoy them. Then came system administration to fill the vacuum.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: Krn, the newsreader of KDE and QtC, a set of C bindings for Qt, part of KFTE, port of the FTE text editor, some webmastering jobs.
ralsina@unl.edu.ar

Jono Bacon

Born in 1979 in England. Studying Interactive Multimedia Communication, and has interests in coding, web development, guitars, heavy metal and of course KDE. Check out my homepage at http://www.jonobacon.co.uk.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: Kafka, DevCenter, KWebStat, KDE Usability Study, KDE articles in magazines. Check what I am doing in my diary.
jono@kde.org

Hans Petter Bieker

Born 1979 in Oslo, Norway. Studies Engineering Cybernetics on Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: KLocale, the class for localization and internationalization in KDE. He is also the author/maintainer of Dr Konqi and kcmlocale. Done lots of porting to Unicode and new KDE features. Besides that he is also the team leader for the Norwegain translation team.
bieker@kde.org

Preston Brown

25 years old, married. BS in Computer Science from Yale University. Lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA where he works for Red Hat, Inc. as Manager of Operating System Development.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: KOrganizer 1.x, the calendar/PIM program for KDE. Co-author of DCOP IPC/RPC mechanism with Matthias Ettrich. Rewrote KConfig for KDE 2.0. The FileTypes and E-mail control modules for the control center. Many other miscellaneous hacks in the kde libraries and core applications.
pbrown@kde.org

Matthias Kalle Dalheimer

30 years old, married, one child, one in the making. Profession: President & CEO of Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, where Kalle and his co-workers develop cross-platform software and write technical documentation. Hobbies: constantly rebuilding his 60-year-old farmhouse, hiking in the (Swedish) forests and mountains, learning new languages (not only programming languages!), writing, teddy bears, reading history books.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: Very first library maintainer and contributor with KConfig and KApplication. Articles and talks about KDE. KLyX, KChart, KDCOP. I survived the QtScape hack. Note: I do not have the longest entry in this gallery.

kalle@kde.org

Daniel M. Duley (aka Mosfet)

25 year old Unix geek living outside of Chicago, IL USA. My hobbies include, well, coding... and uhm... that's about it ;-)

Tasks in the KDE-Project: the development of KDE2.0 KStyle plugin look-and-feels (widget themes), some of the original Kicker panel work, the Pixie image management system, various kdelibs and kcm hacking, graphical effects, and KWin plugin implementation.
mosfet@kde.org

Matthias Elter

Born 1979 in Miltenberg/Germany. Besides my study of computer science I am working for Caldera Germany, the developers of OpenLinux, in Erlangen. In my free time I try to avoid computers as far as possible.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: The panel, control center, help system and menu editor. My pet project "KImageShop", a image manipulation application part of KOffice.
elter@kde.org

Christian Esken

Born 1970. I have done my diploma in computer science on the University of Dortmund/Germany. I have written my Masters thesis about "Object Recognition in Stereo Video Images [...]" on the computer graphics department (CS 7). I like playing board games (like Acquire and Formule De) and collect alternative music as done by "They Might Be Giants".
Tasks in the KDE-Project: Media library "Mediatool", Sound server, Media player "kmedia", Sound card mixer "kmix", Coordinator of the KDE multimedia efforts.
esken@kde.org

Matthias Ettrich

Born in 1972. Studied computer science at the Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut in Tübingen, Germany, until september 1998. After my studies I moved to Oslo and started working for Troll Tech, which is still great fun. First intensive contact to UNIX/X when writing the LyX wordprocessor, which is a graphical frontend to the LaTeX typesetting system. Hobbies: Music (jazz piano), dancing (standard/latin), my girlfriend and sometimes a good historical or philosophical book. Survived the QtScape hack ;-)
Tasks in the KDE-Project: Project founder, windowmanager ( formerly kwm, now kwin), session management, parts of the kde libraries, first version of kdm, klyx, DCOP ipc mechanism, KApplet, kicker framework (now mainly developed by Mosfet), ksession, contributes to the common wm-specs (NET-protocol). His prior art from KDE-1.x development include the kvt-hack and kpanel. Makes Qt fit even better to KDE's needs.
ettrich@kde.org

David Faure

Born in 1976, French. After studying computer science at "INSA de Lyon" in France, until June 1999, I'm now working for MandrakeSoft, in Bath (England). Why there ? Because I always liked England :)
Hobbies: music (jazz piano, like Matthias E. !), catamaran. I am also very happily married :) More about me at this interview.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: ktalkd for nearly a year, then maintaining kfm for KDE 1.1.x, and now working on konqueror, kdesktop, big chunks of the KDE libraries, and koffice. And fixing bugs whereever I find them :-)
It's so cool to finally be able to work full time on KDE !
faure@kde.org

Kurt Granroth

Born in 1974 in Michigan US. I currently live in Arizona with my wife and daughter. I am employed by SuSE since 10/99 to work on KDE full-time. In the past, I graduated with a degree in computer science, worked on the Iridium satillite network and even walked on the Dark Side for a year (Windows/MFC programming).
Tasks in the KDE-Project: kbiff, kapptemplate, a few additions to the kdelibs, various docs and howtos, increasing amounts of public relations related activities
granroth@kde.org

Steffen Hansen

Born in 1974 in Haderslev, Denmark. I have a degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Southern Denmark, Odense University. Currently I live in Odense where I work for Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB as a C++/Qt developer.
Personal homepage: HrHansen.dk
Tasks in the KDE-Project: I have been the kdm maintainer since after version 0.1, and I have done parts of the kde daemon (kded). I also did the first danish translation of kdelibs.
hansen@kde.org

Rik Hemsley (rikkus)

Born 1976, England. BSc. Computer Science. Started career as UNIX sysadmin. Currently unemployed.
Hobbies: Composing music.
Tasks in the KDE project: PIM stuff (Empath, librmm, libldif, libvCard), work on various libraries and applications, some artwork. Also see http://www.geoid.clara.net/rik/.
rik@kde.org

Matthias Hölzer-Klüpfel

Born 1971 in Würzburg, Germany, I am sharing my birthday with KDE version 1.0 (obviously, just the day, not the year :). I have studied physics and computer science at the University of Würzburg.
I am working as a software developer for Caldera Germany, the developers of Caldera OpenLinux, in Erlangen.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: kcontrol, kappfinder, kworldwatch, faq, some more stupid applications like kteatime...
hoelzer@kde.org

Martin Jones

Born 1971, Married, baby daughter. Living in Brisbane, Australia and working for Trolltech Australia. I have an Electronics & Computer Engineering degree, and Masters of Eng. Sci. - Computer Engineering.
Hobbies: keeping my daughter amused, programming (when not busy with previous hobby).
Tasks in the KDE-Project: kscreensaver, kasteroids, amor. Old KDE 1.x projects: HTML widget, KDEHelp, KDisplay, KColorDialog.
mjones@kde.org

Sirtaj Singh Kang

24 years old. Born in New Delhi, India. Living in Melbourne, Australia. Traveller, apprentice musician, software engineer, and appreciator of classical music and ear-splitting metal. Teddy bears and coffee are cool, too.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: karm, kview, korn, kdoc, image file filters, Developers' Centre and Holder of Much Opinion.
taj@kde.org

Lars Knoll

28 years old. Living in Heidelberg, Germany. At the moment he's working on his PhD in physics at the Max-Planck-Institut. Likes listening to music, travelling, reading and going out with his friends.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: KDE's HTML library khtml, konqueror, BiDi support.
knoll@kde.org

Martin Konold

Born in 1967, married, soon kids. Besides travelling around the world I have been studying physics in Ulm and Tübingen, Germany. After my master theses I worked as a scientist at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics and Computational Physics at the University of Tübingen. There I was involved in doing programming for massive parallel systems (aka Cray T3E/512, 307 GFLOP/s and NEC SX-4/32). I designed and built the currently still most efficient Intel Linux Cluster Kepler. This machine achives more than 75% of the theoretical peak performance with 196 Intel Pentium III processors. Then I worked as a Senior Consultant for the SUSE Consulting. At the end of 2001 I founded together with former SUSE fellows the consulting company erfrakon. In 2002 and 2003 we developed the architecture for the KDE Kolab Groupware Solution. I love promoting Linux and KDE. Hobbies: travelling, paragliding, hiking, photography, debating and drinking beer. I spend most of my spare time with my wife Silke.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: Kolab developer, moderator of kde-announce mailing list
konold@kde.org

Stephan "Coolo" Kulow

Born 1976 in Mecklenburg, Germany. Studies medical computer scienc in Lübeck (Germany). Hobbies: Programming, writing poetry, listening to music and watching formula one and soccer when my girl friend lets me (this leads to another part time hobby I have: debating :)
Tasks in the KDE-Project: Maintaining SVN repository, configuration and packaging, coordination of internationalization and porting to other operating systems, old versions of klocale, khexdit,kcmkpanel and kwmpager (all of them have found nicer versions and maintainers with more time for it), configure and Makefile example in kdesdk (kexample), am_edit, kmoon, the KDE file selector, Debian maintainer of KDE. Besides that I'm fixing bugs here and there and try to keep KDE compilable easily.
coolo@kde.org

Antonio Larrosa Jiménez

Born 1978, in Málaga, Spain. I'm studying mathematics at the University of Málaga where I do research with a computer science department. Hobbies : Programming , hearing/playing/composing new age music and run (but not much :-) ).
Tasks in the KDE-Project: kmid, kpager, kfourier
larrosa@kde.org

Richard James Moore

I'm a 25 year old software developer, I currently work for Robocast writing internet software in Java. Before I started working for Robocast, I was studying as postgraduate student at the University of Manchester in the UK, and doing research in electronics CAD software. When I'm not hacking on a computer I like to play the guitar and get drunk (sometime both at once).
Tasks in the KDE-Project: I am the maintainer of techbase.kde.org, the KDE Techbase. I am also the developer of some small KDE applications like kpaint and ksnapshot, and some of the KDE widgets such as the KFileDialog. I am currenly doing some work on adding Java support to KDE.
rich@kde.org

Christoph Neerfeld

I'm 26 years old and studying applied computer science at the University for applied sciences FH Rhein-Sieg. I'm responsible for the installation and maintance of our Linux systems.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: I'm the developer of kmenuedit, kjots and klpq.
chris@kde.org

Jesper K. Pedersen

Jesper was born in the summer of 71, graduated from Odense Universitet with a Master Degree in Computer System Engineering. Now he works for Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB.
Jesper Pedersen is quite new to KDE development (started in the middle of 1999). He is now the maintainer of KArm. His main project within KDE is, however, to rewrite his program called The Dotfile Generator to work with KDE. As a result of this work some general purpose widgets are being created. One of these is a regular expression building widget.
In his spare time, Jesper tries to get as much as possible away from his computer, so he can enjoy life with his girlfriend Anne Helene, do some jiu jitsu, and play with his rabbits.
Tasks in the KDE project: KArm, The KDE Dotfile Generator, Widget Development
blackie@kde.org

Magnus Pfeffer

Born in 1974 in Germany. Currently studying computer sciences at Kaiserslautern University. Working with the Linux project team of the university's Unix-AG.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: KDE RPMs.
pfeffer@unix-ag.uni-kl.de

Harri Porten

Mechanical engineer. Came into the world in 1972 as a son of German and Finnish parents. In my spare time I enjoy playing bass guitar, programming and watching television (all at the same time).
Tasks in the KDE-Project: JavaScript, maintainer of kppp, helping out here and there.
porten@kde.org

Espen Sand

Born in 1968 in Norway where I still live. I have an M.Sc. degree in electical engineering (microelectronics), but I spend the days with what I enjoy most - as a software developer. If you look very closely on the image to the right you can see my pet program, KHexEdit on the screen.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: Author of KHexEdit. Various components in the libraries such as KDialogBase, KJanusWidget, KHelpMenu, the "About" dialogs.....
espen@kde.org

Chris Schläger

He was born in 1970 and lived most of his life in Germany. In 1996 he received his degree in Electrical Engineering. Developing simulators for processors he spent his time on the edge between hardware and software. To compensate this he joined the KDE Project. Besides hacking KDE he enjoys sailing and the company of his girlfriend. He now lives in Nürnberg, Germany working for SuSE.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: He is the author and maintainer of KTop and KSysGuard. Once in a while he messes up the KDE core libraries as well. Currently his job as VP of the KDE Foundation takes almost all of his spare time.
cs@kde.org

Reginald Stadlbauer

Born in 1979. Lives in Graz (Austria), studies Telematics there at the Technical University and works parttime for Troll Tech. Besides programming he's administrating some servers at the university and likes watching TV (esp. soccer), listening to music and playing with his cats.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: Mainly KPresenter, KWord, and KOffice libs
reggie@kde.org

Nico Schirwing

Born in 1974, single (more or less). Living in Brandenburg/Havel, Germany. I'm still studying computer science at the Fachhochschule Brandenburg, but my main occupation since 1995 is Web-Design. Hobbies: Graphics, reading (SF and fantasy), writing, communication and some other things I don't want to tell you! ;-) Current scientific project: How to stretch a day to 30 hours.
Tasks in the KDE project: Drawing the desktop icons.
Nico's home page

Uwe Thiem

Born 1954, married, two kids. Software programmer. Most experiences in machine steerings and system close programming for UNIX. Hobbies - amoung a lot of others: Reading SciFi (I love Iain Banks' novels) and riding lions. ;-)
Tasks in the KDE-Project: kneuron, kfract
uwe@uwix.alt.na

Cristian Tibirna

Born 11 Nov 1967. Researcher on Numerical Modeling.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: contributor to kwin, old kpanel, kcontrol modules, old kfm, kscd, ktelnet, old kwrite, krootwm, kpixmap effects, kikbd, katomic, web site, multihead support.
tibirna@kde.org

Torben Weis

Given the amount of his work we have the impression that Torben Weis (like Homer in the ancient times ) is really a group of say 5-6 people working. So it's a bit hard to describe him appropriately in a few sentences. Anyways, those who met him know that he's a funny guy, though he seems to dislike galleries. That means: to learn more about him you will have to participate in a KDE meeting, a linux trade show in Germany or the next linux kongress.
Tasks in the KDE-Project: kfm, kparts, koffice, dcopidl, kscript,...
weis@stud.uni-frankfurt.de

Robert David Williams

29 years old, single, and co-owner of Jarob Consulting (JRC of Utah) with my brother. I have a Computer Science degree from Brigham Young University. Interests: sports, the outdoors, and of course computers. Total fan of the Utah Jazz, go NBA!
Tasks in the KDE-Project: Documentation and Webmaster.
rwilliams@kde.org

Bernd Johannes Wuebben

Having studied Mathematics and Physics at Heidelberg University, Germany, I am now working on a Ph.D in Mathematics at Cornell University, NY, USA. My work is concerned with the mathematics of super-string theory -- in particular the deformation theory of Calaby-Yau threefolds.( See the January 1996 issue of Scientific American for more info on this subject ) I have also earned a Masters in Computer Science form Cornell. I enjoy skiing, jogging, swimming, and mathematical finance.
Tasks in the KDE project: kedit, kfax, kscd, kmidi, kmodplayer, kppp, kcalc, kfontmanager, knotes ,kfontdialog, KDE research/management.
wuebben@kde.org

Markus Wuebben

Born 1978. Currently studying computer science and economics at the University of Dortmund. My hobbies include programming, doing sports and socializing with my friends.
Tasks in the KDE project: kmail, kcc, kfsstatus
markus.wuebben@kde.org