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Camp KDE 2009: Akademy's Satellite Campus

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The KDE project has announced the date and some detail regarding its first annual Camp KDE event. This developer conference was conceived at the KDE 4 Release Event that took place earlier this year in Mountain View, California, and aims to get developers all over the world more involved in the KDE project.



KDE Relaunches Community Forums

KDE logoKDE users have a new online spot to get together and talk about their favorite desktop environment. The KDE Forum re-launched this week and is already over 17,000 members strong. There are plenty of categories that cover everything from troubleshooting Internet and network issues to canoodling about new styles and themes.



Paid and Unpaid FOSS Developers: A Powerful Combo

Joe Brockmeier has an interesting piece up on the differences between paid and volunteer open source contributors. In it, he cites this post from former Debian Project Leader Martin Michlmayr, and a paper by Evangelia Berdou. Berdou finds that paid developers take up key positions in projects, while volunteers often work on the periphery. Kristin also had some goodﾠ thoughts on the topic on OStatic this morning. I'm a believer that the combination of these two types of contributions can be very powerful.


In Open Source Development, Does Money Change Everything?

FOSSBazaar recently highlighted Evangelia Berdou's doctoral thesis on the differences between the contributions of paid open source developers and volunteer contributors.

Berdou examined parallels and disconnects between paid and volunteer contributors in the GNOME and KDE projects, using earlier incidents of such events (such as the Gstreamer/Fluendo SL summit). The hypotheses and analysis she presents are thought-provoking.