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Announcing the KDE Quality Team Project

Quique writes "The KDE Community is pleased to announce the launch of the Quality Team Project, a community of contributors who will serve as a gateway between developers and users in the KDE Project, and as a new way for people to begin contributing. KDE is a very attractive project, offering high quality software and is freely available. There is a lot of people who feel the urge to give something back, but stop in the middle of the way, frustrated by the steep learning curve. The aim of the project is to reduce these barriers by welcoming these potential contributors, and by offering documentation, support, and even guidance if requested. The objective is to support the new contributors, (programmers, documenters, testers, artists...). Have you ever wished to help KDE in some way, but never knew how? Keep reading!"

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  1. Shouldn't that be... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    the KDE Kuality Team?

    1. Re:Shouldn't that be... by Megaslow · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think you mean the
      KDE Kuality Klan
      aka, the KKK.. wait, nevermind :)

    2. Re:Shouldn't that be... by SPrintF · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sorry, no. It should be the "KDE Koalas." Because they ensure koala-ty!

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  2. KDE Quality Team? by MoobY · · Score: 5, Funny

    What abbreviation will this project get? KDE-Qt?

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  3. Kuality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's Kuality, damn in, don't pollute the brand.

    KDE Kuality Projekt

  4. Middlemen? Where have I heard this before..? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh yeah...

    Tom Smykowski: Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?

  5. Re:USABILITY - FINALLY ! by lambent · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux version .01 was launched in September 1991. (timeline) Try 12.5 years.

    Rather, if you mean the relative amount of time it seems that I've been thrashing around in the 'quirkiness' (to be polite) that is the linux desktop ... then I think you've underestimated that figure by a few decades.

  6. Pffffftt! by msimm · · Score: 4, Funny

    What don't they read Slashdot? I thought we were the Quality Assurance!!

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  7. Re:This is EXACTLY what open source needs! by pbox · · Score: 4, Funny

    That be the day when the might US government will adapt to german (ungood) open-source (plus ungood) quality (double-plus ungood) software...

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  8. Quality Team? by Sparky77 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This sounds like a good idea for an Open Source project. However, it's funny to me, because not long ago my boss was tossing around the idea of dividing the development group I work in into "The Stability Team" and "The Feature Team". Luckily the silliness of this sunk in and the idea floated away into Dumb Idea Heaven. We still joke about it though because nobody wants to get stuck with the crap job on the Stability Team, where you have to answer all the phone calls and fix the bugs in everyone else's code.

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  9. Re:First thing to fix by ThisIsAnExampleAccou · · Score: 3, Funny

    "How much better can you get than kool?!"

    Ice Kold?

  10. Re:First thing to fix by MikeXpop · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, thank god Gnome isn't like that!

    Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go install Gaim, Gnumeric, Galeon, Grhino and Gtetrinet (gnome version of tetrinet, an internet tetris game).

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  11. Re:First thing to fix by MBCook · · Score: 3, Funny
    Personally I don't think it's so bad, but I think it should be changed to things like "K-Illistrator". Why? Let's see what these names sound like if you tried to pronounce them...

    Koffice - A cough you get at the office?
    Killustrator - Shows you how to kill trators?
    Kougar - Another name for KMountainLion?
    Kroupware - For when you need to collaborate when you have a bad cough. Especially if it's that Koffice you cought (see above).
    Kallery - No idea. I can't think of a pun. It must be a bad name :)
    KTetris - No puns here either.

    -- A KDE user (and lover) with Karma to burn

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  12. Re:First thing to fix by kilgortrout · · Score: 4, Funny

    kallery - an application for the weight conscious.

  13. Re:You wanna know why? by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 3, Funny
    It will never be taken seriously with a name like "KDE" and 100 apps all starting with "K."

    KDE will never be taken seriously because its name is a TLA? I guess we'd better tell IBM, the FBI, the CIA, the DEA, CBS, the NFL and thousands of other organizations that they're doomed to failure because of their names.

    Maybe they should all rename themselves with words with meanings like "One of a fabled race of dwarflike creatures who live underground and guard treasure hoards." Then they'll be taken seriously.