This is the third of four interviews with Summer of Code 2007 students in KDE (read the first, second).

Leo Franchi Age: 19 Located in: Austin, Texas Occupation: Sophomore, majoring in Computer Science and Philosophy. Nickname on IRC: lfranchi Fav. KDE applications: Amarok of course :) As well as Kate, Dolphin, and KMail. Blog: http://amarok.kde.org/
Juan González Aguilera Age: 27 Located in: Almeria, Spain Occupation: Student at University of Almeria. Nickname on IRC: opsidao Fav. KDE applications: KDevelop, Amarok and Konsole (or Yakuake) Hardware: Athlon64_3000+, 2 GB ram, 200 GB SATA and a very cheap GeForce FX5200 performing really well on dual-head. Blog: http://opsiland.blogspot.com/
Andrew Christian Manson Age: 20 Located in: Dublin, Ireland, Wicklow, Ireland, and Crossgar, Northern Ireland. Occupation: Student at Trinity College, Dublin doing Computer Science. Nickname on IRC: real_ate Fav. KDE applications: Wow, this is really tough... I would have to say Marble (no, I'm serious!), KArm ( just to keep me on the right track ), Kate and KDevelop but I really wish I understood how to use it properly ;) Hardware: Nowadays I work on a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop, it's big, heavy, and the lowest end hardware I could find - but it cost me 500 euro, and that's the kind of decisions that we students need to make. Blog: http://realate.blogspot.com/ - although you might not find anything interesting there because I'm really new to this blogbing stuff, so I don't keep it up and when I do I just don't know what to put in it. Maybe it might become more active soon enough...
Marcus D. Hanwell Age: 27 Located in: Sheffield, UK. Occupation: Student at the University of Sheffield doing a PhD in Physics. Nickname on IRC: cryos Fav. KDE applications: So many to choose from - Kile, K3b, Amarok, Digikam, Kalzium, vim and Marble. Hardware: I have always been building things and taking them apart and my main desktop system is no different. I built the system from parts - dual core AMD Athlon64 4400+, 2x1GB DDR400 matched RAM modules from Corsair, XFX nVidia 6600GT PCI-E graphics card, 3x250GB Maxtor SATA hard drives set up in RAID0/1/5 using LVM2, all in a beautiful black Antec tower case with a Tagan PSU powering a couple of 17" LG TFTs using DVI. Homepage: http://blog.cryos.net/ Blog: http://blog.cryos.net/

This is the last of four interviews with Summer of Code 2007 students in KDE (read the first, second, third).

Marijn Kruisselbrink Age: 21 Located in: Eindhoven, The Netherlands Occupation: Computer Science Student at Eindhoven University of Technology Nickname on IRC: Mek Fav. KDE applications: KOficce, Gwenview Hardware: MacBook Pro, 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo, 1 GB RAM, 100 GB HDD Laptop, 1.4 GHz Pentium M, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB HDD MacMini, 1.25 GHz G4 PPC, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB HDD
Alexandr Goncearenco Age: 26 Located in: Kassel, Germany Occupation: Postgraduate student at Cologne University Bioinformatics Center (CUBIC) Nickname on IRC: neksa Fav. KDE applications: Kontact, Konqueror, KArm, Digikam, Kalzium, KPDF/okular Hardware: Compaq Evo n620c, CPU 1.5 GHz Pentium M, RAM 1 GB, HDD 7.2 KRPM 60 GB, ATI 1400x1050 Homepage: http://neksa.net/ Blog: http://neksa.blogspot.com/
Emanuele Tamponi Age: 19 Located in: Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy Occupation: Student at Università degli Studi of Cagliari, Electronic Engineering Nickname on IRC: EmanueleT (ex Thrain) Fav. KDE applications: Konqueror, Kate, Krita
Vladimir Kuznetsov Age: 21 Located in: Russia, Moscow Occupation: Student at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Nickname on IRC: ksvladimir Fav. KDE applications: Konsole, Digikam, Kile. Blog: http://ksvladimir.blogspot.com/

This is the second of four interviews with Summer of Code 2007 students in KDE (read the first one).

Carlos Licea Age: 20 Located in: Juárez, Chihuahua, México Occupation: Student at Juarez City Technological Institute, and some other duties. Nickname on IRC: carutsu Fav. KDE applications: Hard to pick one... I just love Amarok, K3b and certainly KOffice 2.0 will be amazing. Blog: I just started a blog a couple of weeks ago, it's outdated but I will post major achievements there. Its address is http://carloslicea.blogspot.com/ I tried to get it on the planet but I didn't recive any answer.
Bertjan Broeksema Age: 24 Located in: Groningen, the Netherlands Occupation: Student at University of Groningen, Software and Systems Engineering. Nickname on IRC: bbroeksema Fav. KDE applications: The most used combination is Yakuake/Konsole I think, but also Kontact is used frequently. Hardware: I'm working on a Dell Latitude 110L. Homepage: http://bertjan.broeksemaatjes.nl/ Blog: http://bertjan.broeksemaatjes.nl/blog/1
Pierre Ducroquet Age: 20 Located in: Close to Lille, North of France Occupation: Student at Telecom Lille 1, a French engineer school. Nickname on IRC: Pinaraf Fav. KDE applications: In lexical order: Akregator, Amarok, Kate, KMail, KNotes, Konqueror, Konversation, Kopete Hardware: Acer laptop: Pentium M 1.7 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, ATI Mobility X700... Homepage: None... (ok, you can find some attempts on Google, but I never maintained them). Blog: http://pinaraf.blogspot.com/
Gavin Beatty Age: 21 Located in: Dublin, Ireland Occupation: Student at Trinity College (Dublin University, Trinity College for the pernickity). Nickname on IRC: gavinbt (no alter egos, thanks) Fav. KDE applications: Konsole, Kate, Kopete, KWallet are _always_ open. Konversation should easily be on that list. Hardware: Laptop: Fujitsu Siemens, Pentium M 1.73GHz, 1GB RAM, 120GB disk. Blog: http://gavinbeatty.blogspot.com/ - A random collection of links, not really a blog

his is the first of four interviews with Summer of Code 2007 students in KDE.

Aleix Pol Gonzàlez Age: 21 Located in: Barcelona, Spain Occupation: Computer Science student and working in a university internship. Nickname on IRC: apol Fav. KDE applications: KDevelop and Akregator mainly, but KDE is great as a whole. Hardware: 2GHz white MacBook. Homepage: http://www.proli.net/ Blog: http://www.proli.net/
Piyush Verma Age: 20 Located in: New Delhi, India Occupation: Just finished my internship at Sapphire Mobile Systems under Sirtaj Singh Kang, will join the place soon. Nickname on IRC: meson10 Fav. KDE applications: Kontact (it's a real kool manager), Konqueror, Konversation, and lets just not forget "the Konsole". Hardware: Turion 64-Bit Hp-Compaq laptop with 1.5 GB RAM. Athlon64 3200 with 1.5 GB as desktop. Blog: http://meson10.wordpress.com/ http://360.yahoo.com/meson10/
Mike Arthur Age: 22 Located in: Edinburgh, Scotland Ipswich, England from September onwards. Occupation: Currently working full time on Google Summer of Code. Start as software engineer for British Telecom in September. Nickname on IRC: mikearthur Fav. KDE applications: Amarok, Kontact, Kaffeine, Konsole. Hardware: Desktop: Core 2 Duo 4MB running at 2.8Ghz, 2GB RAM, Maxtor 150GB Raptor, Seagate 500GB, Audigy 2, Dell 2005FPW. Laptop: Dell Latitude D620 Core Duo 2MB 2.0Ghz, 1GB RAM, 60GB HDD. Homepage: http://mikearthur.co.uk/ Blog: http://mikearthur.co.uk/
Nick Shaforostoff Age: 20 Located in: Kiev, Ukraine. Occupation: Student at National Technical University of Ukraine (KPI), 3rd year. Computer Engineering/System Programming. Nickname on IRC: shaforostoff Fav. KDE applications: KTeaTime, Klipper, Kate, yaKuake (it's the only apps that have acceptable performance/features ratio). I also like Amarok, KMail, KDevelop, but they (always) need "some more love". Hardware: 1.8Ghz, 512mb RAM, no swap memory. Homepage: http://youonlylivetwice.info/

A Short Intro

• Age: 26
• Located in: Utrecht, Netherlands
• Occupation: Finishing college at the Dutch research institute TNO. I study Organizational Psychology, and I'm doing research in the area of social innovation.
• Nickname on IRC: superstoned
• Claim to Fame: I guess my my reports from meetings and events might be most known...
• Fav. KDE applications: Tough one. I can name the big ones, but everybody knows how cool they are already. So I go with Klipper, KSnapshot and KGet. They are true gems. Small, but good at what they do.
• Hardware: AMD X2 4600+ and 3G ram, to keep KDE 4 compiling ;-)
• Blog: http://nowwhatthe.blogspot.com/