We are approaching the release of Qt 4.6. To make it rock as much as we can we have just started a beta program where we collect feedback. If you’re interested in joining, please read the details on Volker’s blog.
The program is open to everybody and and joining is not needed to test the beta.
Today, we added a new member to the family of Qt websites.
Some weeks ago, we had a creative coffee break in the Oslo office with rather bad coffee but nice cookies (did you know that Norwegians make really good cookies?). Sitting on the comfy couches, someone raised the issue (or should I say: challenge?) that we don’t have a place where we can show all the creative and uncommon projects that pop up on blogs and land in our inboxes from time to time. Enter QtOverload!
On this new blog, we want to collect cute little applications, code snippets or screenshots (or whatever else fits) and give credit to the enormous creative potential that our toolkit sets free in cute Qt programmers.
We bet that you have something extra cute sitting on your hard drive or living somewhere in the back of your head. Don’t let it gather dust any longer and send your ideas over to submissions [at] qtoverload [dot] com. We’ll finally give them the attention they deserve!
We’re very excited about this new project and looking forward to your submissions.
We had some busy days over here at Qt Software. I spent most of yesterday digging through comments on blogs and forums, monitoring twitter and other social services and generally having eyes and ears on the discussions going on. Multitasking at its finest for the whole team.
It was great to read through all the feedback and it was just amazing how much help we got from you fellow KDE friends on various places on the web. I saw many of you answering questions or moving the discussion into the right direction. A big, big thank you to everybody for this!
And to make it complete: we switched domains over the weekend. trolltech.com has retired and is now replaced by qtsoftware.com
Where did the last weeks go? They seem to have passed me unnoticed behind my back…
Exciting things have happened. I spare you the details of the ups and downs I’ve been through like the nerve-wracking waiting for emails and simply pull out the most important news: I joined Qt Software’s marketing team as Web Community Manager three weeks ago.
Being in dark and cold Oslo does need some adaptation but in reward I got really nice colleagues and free access to a wii and a pinball machine. And it actually snowed today!
I will work on increasing the buzz around Qt and FOSS over the web and engage with the communities on the web around us to make them more visible and serve them with fresh news and content. To reach out to as many community members as possible I intend to concentrate on – surpise! – social media.
For the beginning, I put some work into the OSS showcase on our Qt in Use section to promote OpenSource projects using Qt. There is more to come and if you ever stumble upon anything interesting, I might have missed – you know, my day only has 24 hours, too – go ahead and let me know and send me an email to firstname dot lastname at trolltech dot com. And I mean anything!
Oh, and I will definetely go on putting time and work into KDE.