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Overview : Aethera : kamera : KDB : KDE Studio : Kivio : Korelib : Kugar : MARS : tkJabber
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theKompany.com is working to be as engaged as possible in open source development. To that end, we are sponsoring open source projects to help make open source work for everyone. Here we've summarized the projects we are or will be sponsoring in the near future. If you are involved with an open source project and would like theKompany.com to get involved, then be sure to drop us a line. To find out more about open source development and why we sponsor it, be sure to read up on it here.

Aethera

Aethera is a pim application, i.e. it handles all kinds of personal information: email, contacts, notes, tasks, todos, journals. It has various communication features regarding: send/receive email, send/receive task requests and appointment requests via email and it can also send SMSs using web gateways.

KDB

KDB is a set of libraries that will ease the development of database applications for KDE. It leverages the power of KDE Plugins to access the wider range of available free and commercial DBMS. It also provides a set of built-in widgets and dialogs that will boost your productivity in developing database applications for KDE.

kamera

kamera is an IO slave and a KControl panel module which allows you to access folders and images within any digital camera supported by the upcoming gPhoto2 libraries.

KDE Studio

KDE Studio is moving to become the premiere development environment for Linux. theKompany.com is wholeheartedly supporting the further development and supply of this development suite, which will provide wide-ranging standardized developer tools and will be a strong reference set for development on Linux overall. Like other projects we sponsor, we will host the CVS development tree as well as other information about the project as it develops.

Kivio

Kivio on the surface is your everyday flowcharting program. Underneath this skin, however, lies much more. Kivio will offer basic flowcharting abilities, but with a twist. Objects are scriptable through Python, and a backend plugin system will offer the ability to make objects do just about anything.

Korelib

Korelib is a cross-platform C++ library for developing plugin-based applications. It provides a uniform and consistent cross-platform API for developing modular applications.

Kugar

theKompany.com is pleased to support the open source project Kugar which is an XML based report generation and viewer tool for KDE. Applications generate data in XML and specify a template (also in XML) to be used to format the data. The resulting report may be viewed on screen or printed. Templates may be specified as a URL allowing businesses to establish a centralised template repository. Kugar's implementation as a KPart means that the production of business quality reports can be easily added to any KDE application, and that reports can be viewed using KDE's Konqueror browser.

tkcOggRipper

tkcOggRipper is a freely available (but not GPL) program for easily and conveniently ripping CDs into the Ogg Vorbis format. If you are not familiar with Ogg Vorbis, it is available from Xiph (www.xiph.org). It compresses smaller and creates higher fidelity files than MP3. Ogg Vorbis also doesn't have any license time bombs or restrictions associated with it as MP3 does. You can look here to see what we mean. MP3 royalties will cost you either directly as a producer or indirectly as a consumer.

tkJabber

tkJabber is a free version of our tkJabberPro Instant Messaging plugin for our Aethera PIM system.

VeePee

VeePee is a framework that makes it easy for KDE and GNOME application developers to embed the Python scripting language in their applications, and provides users with a powerful and consistent scripting environment. theKompany.com sponsors VeePee and hosts the CVS development tree