Day one at Camp KDE 2010 (KDE.News) [LWN.net]

KDE.News has a report from the first day of Camp KDE. "Saturday, the first day of Camp KDE 2010 in San Diego, started with a short introduction by Jeff Mitchell. Jeff, who was the principal organizer of the conference, introduced us to a bit of history about Camp KDE and then went into some statistics about the KDE community. The conclusion was that if we maintain our current rate of growth we'll have about 6 billion developers by 2050. Continuing with this theme, he spoke about current topics in KDE such as the migration to Git and the upcoming release of KDE SC 4.4. Jeff then introduced the talks to follow, including the work on KDE-on-Windows, KOffice and KDE technology on mobile devices."

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Day one at Camp KDE 2010 (KDE.News)

Posted Jan 19, 2010 13:45 UTC (Tue) by pranith (subscriber, #53092) [Link]

Well, given that the total population ff Earth will be around 9 billion, I am not so sure of KDE having 6 billion of those as developers.
Are you sure its 6 billion or is it 6 million??

Day one at Camp KDE 2010 (KDE.News)

Posted Jan 19, 2010 14:40 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Well, obviously this is showing that KDE's developer base is growing much,
much faster than human population growth. Naturally it'll taper off before
2050, unless we end up on the Planet of Geeks :)

Planet of Geeks!?

Posted Jan 20, 2010 1:55 UTC (Wed) by ldo (subscriber, #40946) [Link]

Mmm ... Planet of Geeks ...

Day one at Camp KDE 2010 (KDE.News)

Posted Jan 22, 2010 0:35 UTC (Fri) by jefferai (guest, #63142) [Link]

Jos' article got it a bit wrong...I said several hundred years, and that was made up on the spot, and totally meant as a joke.

So don't take that comment too seriously :-)

Day one at Camp KDE 2010 (KDE.News)

Posted Jan 24, 2010 19:44 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

I knew you made it up, but I don't want to wait hundreds of years. Saying it
will happen makes it happen, no?