People

Daniel Molkentin joined KDE in 2000 when he started contributing to KJS, the KDE JavaScript Engine. He is the co-author of KBattleship, a network enabled game and KPersonalizer, the KDE startup wizard and contributed to KSirc, the KDE Internet Relay Chat application. Since 2001, Daniel maintains the KControl Framework and wrote several KControl modules. For KDE 3.0 he wrote the KDE widgets plugin library, allowing developers to use a large set of KDE Widgets inside Qt Designer. Daniel also co-designed the foundation of Kexi, the new database application which will be introduced with the next KOffice release. Being a member of the KDE tradeshow staff, he recognized the importance of an integrated PIM solution for the use of Linux/KDE especially in corporate environments and took over the maintainership of the Kontact container Framework.

Contact: molkentin@kde.org

Don Sanders is employed as a core Qt developer by Trolltech Australia. He has been contributing to KDE since 1998. Don adopted the KMail application in 1999, and lead its development into one of the most popular Free Software mail clients. Don also founded the KAddressBook application, which has become the standard KDE address book application. He also co-founded the kdepim package, an increasingly popular repository for personal information management (PIM) applications of all types. Don created the KMail KPart and contributed to the KAddressBook and KOrganizer KParts.

Contact: sanders@kde.org

Cornelius Schumacher is a KDE contributor since spring 1999. In February 2000 he took over maintainership of KOrganizer. He is author of Kandy, libkabc (the KDE addressbook library) and libksync (a generic syncing library for KDE), maintains KHelpCenter and is one of the three founding authors of KBugBuster, the frontend to the KDE bug tracking system. In 2002 Cornelius won a second prize in the Qtopia worldwide developers contest with KOrganizer/Embedded. Throughout his involvement with KDE Cornelius has worked towards the goal of an integrated suite of personal information management tools in the kdepim module.

Contact: schumacher@kde.org

Tobias König is the co-author of KSysGuard, KDE's sophisticated system monitoring tool. He is now the maintainer of KAddressbook and has contributed significant parts to kabc, especially the new vCard parser. Tobias helped integrating KAddressbook into Kontact and then started contributing to Kontact's core.

Contact: tokoe@kde.org

Zack Rusin is the KDE official representative in the USA. He's the author and maintainer of KDE-Emacs and KConfEdit. He maintains KSpell and a few classes in the kdelibs, libkdepim and libkdenetwork libraries. Zack is also a core developer of KMail and Kopete, and contributed to most major KDE applications and libraries; from KOffice, through JuK, KNode and KaXul to Konqueror and others. Don Sanders convinced Zack to work on Kontact while they were working on KMail and Zack loves it ever since.

Contact: zack@kde.org

Original container application framework author

Matthias Hölzer-Klüpfel has been contributing to KDE since the early stages of the project. He has acted as the KDE release engineer, and contributed to a great number of KDE projects including KControl the KDE Control Center, KHelpCenter the KDE Help System, KDevelop the popular integrated development environment, KAppFinder, KWorldWatch, KTeaTime and others. He wrote the initial version of the Kontact container framework.

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