Sebastian Kügler of KDE

If you ever want a glimpse of how much Sebastian Kügler does around KDE just subscribe to the kde-promo e-mail list which is as busy as it is effective, and that is just one of the many tasks that he is charged with. In his time with KDE, Sebastian has witnessed and helped facilitate some of the most sweeping changes the organization has ever seen. In our Interview we talk about those changes and more.

The Interview

Could you tell our readers a little bit about yourself, when your interest in computers and software started?

I started programming at the age of 9, finding the games for the Commodore 64 that I owned at that time boring. The machine was sold with a manual for Commodore 64 BASIC. I started exploring it, wrote small games together with a friend of mine. Eventually, I ran into errors I wasn’t able to understand (probably, I ran out of memory). For about 10 years, I did pretty much ignore computers apart from playing a game once in a while and returned back to them when I started studying in 1998. I quickly took up programming again, got a job as webmaster at the university and was introduced to Linux. “We want this website to run on Linux, can you install that?” So I tried, and got hooked.

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