Ah, I just saw you sent a second email - I will come to that one now On Tuesday 03 November 2009 09:05:07 Bernhard Reiter wrote: > Am Montag, 2. November 2009 15:58:03 schrieb Bernhard Reiter: > > Am Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2009 11:40:59 schrieb Stuart Jarvis: > > > How did the project get started - who started the project? > > > What were the aims? > > > Have these aims been met? Will they be? > > > > (No answers to the first three as I've stopped calling ever ongoing > > initiatives a "project", beside I do not know.) > > A initiative like KDE on Windows will draw people with different aims. > > > > My personal aim > > From the viewpoint of Free Software and KDE in general > there are more aspects (getting deliberately carried away. :) ): > > * Computing is there to aid the human in front of the machine > and a major factor is learning how to use an application. > If an application is available on many platforms there is much more > incentive to study and make use of it for a longer period. KDE can make > this possible. * To me it is desirable to bring more people in touch with > Free Software, open development and community. KDE offers great software > and a thriving community so it can be a good ambassador for windows users > into the Free Software world. Regarding the ability to actually influence > the core of the software, KDE is much better than Iceweasel or > OpenOffice.org. > * KDE on Windows is done, because we can! Qt is a good Free Software > development framework, and Nokia's engagement to liberate it from > Trolltech's proprietary business model and release under the GNU Lesser > GPL even gave it a boost.
I like "because we can!". That's always a great answer :-) > > > is to get a cross plattform Kolab Groupware client > > available > > Together with Kolab Server, Kontact thus becomes a stronger > Outlook/Exchange or Lotus Notes competitor in the business space. > I think I'll have to look in to this more when I have some time and seriously think about an article. Please drop an email to [email protected] any time there is something significant to report from this (such as a new release /updated installer of Kontact for Windows from Kolab). > > and I am coordinating a group which had some contracts that > > partly fund our work on this. Also I am interested in a cross plattform > > crypto certificate manager. So its Kontact, Kleopatra an all libraries > > below that were interesting for my developers from Intevation and KDAB. > > > > Kontact for windows is in Beta, the last installer is here > > http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/Kontact_for_Windows_(beta-huge-debug) > > (We've done many improvements since then, but did not new installer.) > > > > Gpg4win 2.0.1 is published in production quality: http://www.gpg4win.org/ > > Anyone interested in widely available protection for end-to-end > communication (which means potential communication protection against > organised crime and government suppression) will welcome that people on > windows can be kept as communication partners to further OpenPGP or S/MIME > email encryption and signatures with help of KDE and Kleopatra. > Actually, I need to look in to Kleopatra a bit more too (I don't think anyone's done a dot article about that, it seems to have just appeared silently) but I like what I think it provides. > How does privacy and computing works in the cloud? If you dislike the idea > to just buy a locked-down device with a webbrowser and enter all your data > into Giigle, being able to run your own software and personal data store > which syncs into several divers directions is something you should look > into. Kdepim and Akonadi enables this form of computing. Some might call > it old-fashioned, probably the same people that never used an email > client, except on the web. But the virtues of privacy and a local running > user interface are timeless. By making KDE - which is offline-capable > software - available on windows, we build an attractive offer. It all looks very modern to me :-) I was still using POP for email until a couple of years ago and only discovered the Kolab calendar via IMAP stuff a few months ago. So, thanks again. A few things for me to think about for potential future articles, one day, when I have time. Btw, I'll be signing up for the mailing list shortly so I can keep a bit of a better eye on things in the KDE on Windows world. Cheers, Stuart _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
