Daniel Nicoletti Interview

Daniel Nicoletti Interview:

Q: Could you start by telling us a little about yourself?

A: I find this self-questions the hardest to answer, but well I'm 27 years old,
married, had twins but, sadly one died in a tragic car accident 2 years ago,
I'm also a Christian, I studied Computer Science here in Brazil on a
university of my church, it's actually funny because I actually studied
my whole life in this institution. I like sports mostly swimming and cycling,
I like to play football but I hate spend time watching it. I also like cars
quite a lot, I dream with the day I'll be able to buy an used BMW :P
People I know normally makes jokes telling me how Windows or some computer
stuff is good, just to get me started preaching how those things suck...


Q: Where do you get your paycheck?

A: I work for a company called Indra that has a software to manage ADSL clients,
and some portals for it, so it's mostly a support work making sure a
bunch of pieces
are working well together. I staying on the client (Telefonica) which is
a 20 minute walking (something great in a city like São Paulo).


Q: What do you do for KDE?

A: A bunch of stuff, I have some problems to stay with a single thing,
right now I think I have a project overflow issue... back to the question,
the projects that take more of my time are Apper, print-manager, colord-kde,
and the list might grow once I find some free time, there is also
libdebconf-kde,
PhotoBook, sessionk... and some other non-KDE projects too...


Q: How did you get started contributing to KDE?

A: My first KDE contribution was around 2007 when I was
writing an application to my conclusion thesis, the
app was called doka and was supposed to accelerate
downloads, at that time a download accelerator was very
important to me because I used to download lots of
Linux CDs, the patch was then to let the http kio set
the end range of what would it get, I dunno if KGet
ever make use of it (at that time it simply closed the
connection on end). I stopped developing doka as
KGet was doing pretty much what I needed.


Q: How much time do you spend working on KDE?

A: It depends a lot on what I have to do on my work,
since a support job not always require you doing
stuff sometimes I can spend the whole day,
sometimes I can't do nothing :P


Q: What keeps you motivated?

A: As Linus once said "free software is all about selfishness",
so I also think my motivation is my own needs, once I find
something is missing or broken I want to fill this gap,
I have a bunch of apps that I miss but sadly I don't have time,
and to delegate a task you need people that not only
share your frustrations but also that knows how to code...


Q: What are some of your future goals for your involvement with KDE?

A: Make more and more projects to have the best DE ever,
there are several apps that I find that are good or sometimes
not so much but that doesn't fit well my needs, most of the
changes I want to do are too intrusive and from past experience
showed big changes are too hard to do, so I somehow feel it's
easier to just start yet another...


Q: What are some of your hobbies and intrests outside of KDE?

A: hmm well I'm trying to build a company but I'm not finding
much motivation these days, I have lots of stuff done
but also a lot is missing and the result is not immediate...