[bt-devel] Integration into KDE (e.g. KDEEDU)

[heiko.evermann at gmx.de]

Hi everyone,

I just came across bibletime, and I just liked it. (Especially the possibility 
to compare four different versions of the ancient Greek NT.)  It just looks 
nice.

And I have one question that I would like to ask you:
Would you like to be part of KDE. I think it would fit nicely into the kdeedu 
(http://edu.kde.org) package (edutainment). 
<quote>
The KDE Edutainment Project
 We are developing high-quality educational software for the K Desktop 
Environment. Our primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the 
specialized user interface needs of young users. However, we also have 
programs to aid teachers in planning lessons, and others that are of interest 
to university students and anyone else with a desire to learn!
</quote>

Some time ago I worked on KStars (desktop planetarium). We started as a source 
forge project and when kdeedu was started, we had the opportunity to join. 
This helped us a lot to make KStars known, as it is distributed alongside 
with KDE.

For bibletime this would mean:
1) KDE distributions would include bibletime, so bibletime would be included 
in all major Linux distributions.
2) The KDE translation teams would translate bibletime into a lot of 
languages. e.g. for KStars we got the Swedish translation for free and we got 
a nice reply from a Swedish father who told us that KStars was the only free 
desktop planetarium available in Swedish and that his child really liked it. 
The child knew Swedish, but no English. 

I proposed that to Anne-Marie Mahfouf from kdeedu and got this reply from her:

> Hi Heiko,
> 
> First, it's not sure that the BibleTime team has any wish to be part of 
> KDE-Edu. this implies to be up-to-date with kdelibs and to follow the KDE 
> releases so there are several rules to follow that maybe they don't want to 
> follow.
> I suggest you ask them first if they want to be part of KDE (I don't say 
> KDE-Edu here) official.
> BibleTime was started with KDE1 and they never integrated KDE official.
> 
> If they agree to be part of KDE official and to follow the conditions 
> implied, then the whole KDE people should state its opinion about that. As 
> you know, KDE tends to be international and I am not sure how BibleTime can 
> be integrated. This has to be widely debated and in any case can I take any 
> decision myself. I am the KDE-Edu maintainer in the sense of keeping things 
> togetther in the module but I don't take any decisions about the programs 
> that join or not.
> 
> So the first thing you should do is ask the BibleTime team about their 
> intentions for joining KDE and then ask KDE (kde-devel or kde-core-devel 
> mailing lists) where this program could be integrated.
> 
> Regards,
> 

I, personally, would really like to see your program integrated, because it 
would help to make bibletime known. And so I am now asking you for your 
opinion on this.

I am looking forward to your answers.

Kind regards,

Heiko Evermann
(KDE Low Saxon translation team)