Hi!
I attended KDE 4.0 release event (http://www.kde.org/kde-4.0-release-event/) today. Event was great itself and particularly as opportunity to promote Commons.
If I'm not mistaken 2 years ago I read announcement about collaboration between Wikimedia Foundation and KDE for creating web services to use Wikimedia project content in KDE applications. However as I talked with several developers I didn't noticed big awareness of our free content. So I made some advertisement :-):
* kde-edu could have biggest benefits of collaboration: we have pronunciation files, photos, SVG flags/maps/etc. Also kde-edu could use content of wiktionary.org/omegawiki.org. * KOffice could use Commons content as clip art (especially SVGs). * Marble (http://edu.kde.org/marble/) could include GeoCommons by default. * And of course desktop wallpapers, especially from featured pictures.
However I'm not sure how well MediaWiki API suited for 3-rd party usage and of course Commons search should be improved.
KDE 4.0 is ported to MacOS X and Windows, so integration of our content could make good promotion for us.
Also Jeremy (of kde-edu) mentioned that Kalzium (http://edu.kde.org/kalzium/) uses open format for 3D molecules storage. I think 3D viewer for chemical data will be great addition for chemistry articles. So will be good idea to investigate this.
I also want to ask other Commoners to attend similar open source/open content events for promoting our project and generating even greater idea how to use our content.
With best regards, Eugene.
PS
More portraits of KDE developers will follow. Unfortunately Google prohibited to take picture inside building.
Hi Eugene,
Excellent work!
Is there something more people should do to encourage KDE to use Commons material, or have you done all the hard work? :)
cheers Brianna
On 19/01/2008, Eugene Zelenko eugene.zelenko@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
I attended KDE 4.0 release event (http://www.kde.org/kde-4.0-release-event/) today. Event was great itself and particularly as opportunity to promote Commons.
Hi!
On Jan 27, 2008 5:21 PM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Eugene,
Excellent work!
Is there something more people should do to encourage KDE to use Commons material, or have you done all the hard work? :)
I don't think that I done too much, just advertisement :-) I feel that we need closer relationship with KDE developers. I sent couple of follow up e-mails, but time was not particularly good - I got reply from Inge Wallin that he still on the way home.
There are lot of ideas on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/KDE_and_Wikipedia but I don't think any of them were implemented...
So I suggest that other Commoners/Wikimedians (better communicators then me) will work with KDE closer (kde-edu, KOffice, Marble, etc.) Will be great if somebody with Wiktionary/OmegaWiki experience will work with developers of kde-edu linguistic software. Probably some improvements should be made in MediWiki API to make downloads/uploads/search services easier to use for 3rd party software developers, for example: clip art, wallpapers (particularly from featured images), pronunciation files, etc.
Cross-domain experience is very important in such collaboration projects... But it's require time and dedication. May be other ideas will generated via such communications.
cheers Brianna
With best regards, Eugene.