Hi Eike, welcome, it' great to have you aboard! > Hi everyone, > > Rex asked that I introduce myself upon subscribing, so > here goes :-). > > I'm a KDE developer residing in Berlin, Germany. I've > been with KDE for about 4 1/2 years now, and a member > of KDE e.V. for a little over three years. > > Within KDE I maintain and release Konversation and Ya- > kuake, am a channel operator on a bunch of the official > Freenode channels (#kde, #kde-cafe and #kde-chat) and > have the usual little contributions all over the place > (Akregator, kwin, Krita ...). > > I've been using Gentoo Linux on my systems for the > last close to seven years, but recently started ha- > ving some troubling thoughts abouts the environmen- > tal footprint of the source-based approach, along > with a general desire for trying out something new. > I've been keeping an eye on Fedora ever since Rex > gave that talk about Fedora KDE at Akademy 2006 in > Glasgow, and have been impressed with the work be- > ing done here, so the choice came easy. Plus Fedo- > ra's emphasis on current software, good tools and > system-level improvements also generally fits my > needs and interests. > > I know next to nothing about RPM packaging other > than once managing to fix up and build a broken > openSUSE spec file for a PowerPC kernel, and still > have a lot to learn about Fedora, but I hope I can > contribute to the KDE SIG in the future :). >
