KDE Mobile/Blackberry/Contributor Device Program

You can find the KDE Playbook Contributor Device Program announcement here: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=134630051915383&w=2

Name	Email	Location	Project	Project URL	Plans
Laszlo Papp	lpapp at kde dot org	Galway county, Ireland	KHangMan, KAnagram, and perhaps Gluon (including the player)	http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/khangman/ http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/kanagram/	Port the applications to BB UI along with its dependencies, if needed.
Gilles Caulier	caulier dot gilles at gmail dot com	Aix en Provence, France	digiKam, Kipi-plugins, and relevant shared libraries (libkipi, libkdcraw, libkexiv2, libkmap, libkface, etc...)	http://www.digikam.org	Port the photo manager, all plugins, and all dependencies from kdegraphics.
Andrea Brancaleoni	null at gmx dot it	Milan, Italy	kbreakout & other kde-games	https://github.com/thypon/xbreakout http://games.kde.org/	SHORT TERM: port kdegame project shrinking KDE dependencies (kbreakout alredy ported to android-qt) LONG TERM: port the KDE libraries needed to run the games.
Andre Heinecke	[email protected]	Osnabrück, Germany	Kontact Touch (Kdepim)	http://userbase.kde.org/Kontact_Touch	See whats possible to get running, help working on the necessary libraries and/or working on adopting the kdepim infrastructure.
Bart Cerneels	[email protected]	Belgium	Amarok, Qt-project	http://amarok.kde.org	Amarok's new core should allow for easy experimentation with a full QML UI for tablets. Extending Qt platform support where required for applications. Specific interests: NFC, bluetooth A2DP and AVRCP.
Bernhard Reiter	[email protected]	Osnabrück, Germany	Kontact Touch and "Desktop" (KDEPIM)	http://userbase.kde.org/Kontact_Touch	Evaluate port of Kontact Touch and necessary components in order to facilitate them. Testing other KDE products in combination with other BB software for real life business usability.
Nuno Pinheiro	nuno at oxygen-icons.org	Vila Real, Portugal	Oxygen, Split-it, Time to Go.	http://www.oxygen-icons.org/	Port the applications to BB, Continue to develop generic UI/UX/artwork for Apps and create new ones mostly made with Touch in mind. Expanding kde's own pool of touch focussed apps.
Mario Fux	fux'AT'kdeDOTorg	Burgdorf, Switzerland	WiktionaryParser and GUI	http://blogs.fsfe.org/mario	Port the wiktionaryParser to more languages (English, French, Italian, etc.) and then develop a QML GUI. It's not (yet) KDE software and I'm atm a slow developer so keep me at the bottom of the list ;-). Oh and I'd use it for promotional stuff as well (e.g. sponsor finding for Randa)
Mario Bensi	mbensi at ipsquad dot net	Toulouse, France	KDE Framework and Zanshin	http://community.kde.org/Frameworks and http://zanshin.kde.org/	Evaluate port of KDE frameworks to BB, testing other KDE products using this and also evaluate port of Zanshin (a powerful yet simple application for managing your day to day actions and notes) to BB, for that i will need to test akonadi on BB too.
Björn Balazs	kde at lazs dot de	Berlin, Germany	Usability	http://openusability.org	Usability Support for the Development of different mobile KDE applications
Teo Mrnjavac	[email protected]	Trieste, Italy	Amarok	http://amarok.kde.org	Evaluate the long term possibilities of porting the next iteration of Amarok to the BB platform. Also maybe Tomahawk or other stuff :)
Tomaz Canabrava	tcanabrava at kde dot org	Rio de janeiro, Brazil	KDE-EDU	liveblue.wordpress.com	Port, test and develop educational applications to BB platform. Im currently in charge with an internship experiment ( 6 students ), so the device will be used by all the students.
Matt Williams	[email protected]	Coventry, UK	KDE Games and KDE Frameworks	games.kde.org	Assist with porting and testing KDE frameworks for the BB platform. Also for porting and testing my game, KSquares, and other KDE games on a touch device for use with Plasma Active.
Rafal Kulaga	rl.kulaga at gmail dot com	Krakow, Poland	KDE-EDU (KStars)	http://edu.kde.org/kstars/	Evaluation of possibility to port KStars to BB platform. This device will also be used by a friend of mine that's currently evaluating different user interface designs for mobile version of KStars. In a long term, we would like to make simplified version of KStars available for mobile devices.
Lukáš Tvrdý	lukast.dev (at) gmail dot com	Slovakia	Krita	http://www.krita.org	Explore and test graphics effects. Try to create some small painting app for mobile.
Albert Astals Cid	[email protected]	Barcelona, Spain	Blinken, explore port of KTuberling (didn't make sense for a phone)	http://www.kde.org/applications/education/blinken/ http://games.kde.org/game.php?game=ktuberling	Port to BB, make sure it works fine
Stephane MANKOWSKI	[email protected]	Toulouse, France	Skrooge	http://skrooge.org	Port Skrooge (A personal finances manager) to BB
Diego Casella	[email protected]	Montebelluna, Italy	Plasmate	http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/PlasMate	Implement 1-click plasmoids installation from developer's laptop to BB device, in order to speed up plasmoid development/testing/deploy. This would require changes on both Plasmate and Plasma Active sides. Since I'll get my bachelor degree in late September (finally!) , I'll be free again to play with KDE code again.
Diego Iastrubni	[email protected]	Hod Hasharon, Israel	KDE/i18n-he	https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-l10n-he	I will work on i18n related issues and RTL issues found anywhere in KDE, and translating the workspace to Hebrew. This means translations and code modifications where is needed.
Ivan Čukić	[email protected]	Belgrade, Serbia	Activities and Plasma Active	https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdelibs/kactivities	Port activities system. Activities gather different content like applications, documents, web pages, contacts etc. that belong together. This way, they allow to quickly access the resources related to the task at hand. For example, when in Work activity, you'd get only a list of your work contacts, and related documents. Also, they allow to encrypt the data that belong to specific activities.
Heiko Tietze	[email protected]	Berlin, Deutschland	User-Experience	http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability	User experience and usability for desktop and mobile applications; Support for KDE developers.
Jan Kundrát (jkt)	[email protected]	Prague, Czech Republic	Trojitá	http://trojita.flaska.net/	Developing a touch-oriented user interface for Trojitá, an IMAP e-mail client. I've already ported Trojitá to Harmattan, but it is not a KDE project.
Filipe Saraiva	[email protected]	São Carlos, Brazil	KDE-EDU	http://edu.kde.org/cantor http://blog.filipesaraiva.info/?tag=planetkde-english http://blog.filipesaraiva.info/	Port and develop KDE-EDU applications to Blackberry platform. I am a KDE-EDU developer, maintainer of Cantor backends to Scilab and Python.
Michael Bohlender	michael.bohlender( aT )tum.de	Munich , Germany	webservice integration (buddycloud)	http://buddycloud.org /	Integrate the decentralized social network buddycloud. Buddycloud is currently working on getting its service into native mobile apps (andriod and iOS so far). There is an ongoing effort to integreat WebAccounts within KDE. Getting a Tablet would benefit my development work greatly because i would be able to test the Touch UI parts. Please note, that aside from some patches, i am not a full KDE contributer yet.
Eli MacKenzie	[email protected]	Ontario, Canada	Konversation IRC Client	http://konversation.kde.org/	Every platform where KDE developers are found should have an IRC Client :)
Emmanuel Lepage Vallee	[email protected]	Quebec, Canada	SFLPhone-KDE, Umbrello	http://www.sflphone.org/ http://uml.sourceforge.net/ https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/network/sflphone-kde	A corporate SIP phone built on top of KDE is a great fit for BB. Many OS specific code issues remain (low level network, low level audio, RPC/dbus), but it should be possible to make a port, I would love to try. I also have some work (yet to be merged) on Umbrello I would like to test on a touchscreen
Tadej Novak	tadej (at) tano.si	Kranj, Slovenia	Tano, VLC-Qt	http://projects.tano.si	I'm developing IP TV player based on Qt and VLC. It's not directly a KDE application, but it works great on it. I'm currently porting it to QML and would be nice to have a reference tablet. As VLC is not yet ideal for real cross-platform development, I plan to contribute to Phonon and/or QtMultimedia with missing features.
Radek Novacek	[email protected]	Brno, Czech Republic	Todo:Read	http://rnovacek.github.com/todoread/	Todo:Read is non KDE application developed for Harmattan in QML/Qt/C++ with deep system integration. It's application for reading postponed articles with ability to download article for later offline reading. I believe that this kind of application is useful for most mobile device users.
Arjen Hiemstra	[email protected]	Utrecht, Netherlands	Gluon, Calligra	http://www.gamingfreedom.org http://www.calligra.org	Port Gluon to PlayBook/BB10. Look at possibilities for Calligra, most likely we can port Calligra Active and potentially the new Krita Sketch to Playbook.
Inge Wallin	[email protected], [email protected]	Ljungsbro, sweden	Calligra, Book reader, kdegames	http://www.calligra.org, http://games.kde.org/	Like Arjen, I will work on Calligra Active, but also either work on Okular Active to become a better book reader for education (support dynamic content like multimedia and 3D animations and reflowing) or write a new webkit based ebook reader. Finally I may work on KReversi which I'm the maintainer of.
John Layt	[email protected]	London, UK	Qt Printing and Locale maintainer, kdelibs developer, kdepim / KHolidays maintainer	http://www.layt.net/john	Help port kdelibs / KF5 to the BB environment. As Qt printing maintainer implement printing support for BB and cloud printing in general. As KDE/Qt locale maintainer ensure new locale services and date/time widgets work on BB. Develop new touch-friendly date/time and calendar widgets for Plasma and kdepim.
Eugene Trounev	[email protected]	Toronto, CA	Graphic, and UI designer		Graphics and mobile UI design help and consultancy, QML scripting. Bringing my extensive experience in mobile UI design from Nokia's Symbian, and Google's Android platforms, as well as an extensive hands on experience with QML UI scripting language.
David Nolden	[email protected]	Aachen, Germany	KDevelop IDE (C++ language support)	http://www.kdevelop.org, http://zwabel.wordpress.com	Investigate development for the Blackberry platform within the KDE development environment.
Sune Vuorela	[email protected]	Copenhagen, Denmark	libs, packaging		make sure notifications sent by Qt/KDE apps behaves nicely
Pierre Stirnweiss	[email protected]	Munich, Germany	Calligra Words, Author	http://www.calligra.org	Work on Calligra Words/Author, separating text tool logic from UI so that non desktop UIs are easier to implement for edition. Initial focus on styles management interface.
Martin Sandsmark	[email protected]	Trondheim, Norway	Multimedia and stuff	http://www.calligra.org	Work on mobile interfaces for our default multimedia applications (like JuK, Dragon, etc.), as well as investigating using the lightweight avkode backend for Phonon. Possibly also look into somehow making a mobile browser (with support for both khtml and webkit!)
Jason Schmidt	itutoru(at)hotmail(dot)com	Surrey, Canada	PennyBet	http://www.pennybet.ca, http://www.pennybet.ca/development	Currently developing an NFC/Bluetooth gaming app with C++ and Qt. It would be great to get this ported onto more platforms (especially Tablets). Attempting to have my code run equally on Smartphones, Internet and Tablets.
Tirtha Chatterjee	[email protected]	Durgapur, India	Rekonq, KDE Games	http://www.rekonq.org, http://thebengaliheart.wordpress.com	Work on porting the KDE browser Rekonq to the blackberry, with added functionality for easy touch-based navigation, providing a better web browsing experience. Also, I would like to port most, if not all of the KDE games to the Blackberry platform, and test it out. Focus would be on making the game UI suitable for use on touch-based phones.
Jeremy Whiting	[email protected]	Utah, USA	KDEEdu	http://jpwhiting.blogspot.com	I'll test and help port kdeedu applications and other applications to the BlackBerry platform
Joseph Wenninger	[email protected]	Vienna, Austria	Kate	http://www.kate-editor.org	Evaluation of porting current KWrite/Kate (again) to the mobile platform to allow easy editing of remote files while being on the road. Helping other ported KDE apps with testing.
Peter Grasch	[email protected]	Graz, Austria	Simon	http://www.simon-listens.org http://simon-listens.blogspot.com	Porting Simone, the Simon mobile client to the BlackBerry platform. Evaluating possible recognition on the device, permitting performance constraints.