Jonathan Riddell

Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:51 am

Jonathan Riddell

Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:51 am

Welcome to the first KDialogue session! Our guest today is Jonathan Riddell, who has graciously agreed to answer the questions.

Many know Jonathan for being one of the starters of the Kubuntu project, where he is also a package manager, but his involvement in KDE is much more than working on a KDE-flavored distribution. He maintains the Planet KDE blog aggregator (which helps everyone follow the blogs of their favorite develoeprs), and is one of the editors for the Dot. Also, he's been involved in the "People Behind KDE" initiative.
Code-wise, Jonathan has written printer-applet and system-config-printer-kde, two utilities to keep track of print jobs and configure printers, respectively, and the first non-C++ applications to land in KDE SVN.

He's also a rock star, or better, he has been treated like one when he went to Kano, Nigeria for a conference (along with fellow gearhead Adriaan de Groot).

Lastly, he is known for being strangely obsessed with hot tubs...

Now it is your chance to ask questions to Jonathan. Have a look at the KDialogue rules and keep them coming!

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Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:47 am

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Re: Jonathan Riddell

Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:47 am

How do you deal with being one of the public faces of a distribution that seems to get a lot of flac for the quality of their KDE implementation, often being accused of playing second fiddle to Ubuntu?

Also, as a Kubuntu user, thanks for all the work you put into both it and KDE.

Edited to only be one question.

Last edited by reldruh on Tue Sep 29, 2009 1:05 am, edited 1 time in total.