Cornelius Schumacher (born 1 December 1969 in
Tübingen, Germany) is a German
open source
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software developer
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. He was born in Tübingen but lives in
Erlangen, Germany.
Biography
He has been a
KDE contributor since 1997 when he mainly worked in the
KDE’s PIM team. He was the main developer and maintainer of KOrganizer for many years. He also assisted
Bitcoin
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to extend the developer documentation that led to their website.
Cornelius Schumacher is a member of the KDE e.V. board since 2002. In summer 2009 he was elected as president of
KDE e.V.
On October 11, 2009, Cornelius Schumacher wrote about the estimated cost (using the
COCOMO model with SLOCCount) to develop KDE software package with 4,273,291
LoC, which would be about US$175,364,716.
This estimation does not include Qt,
Calligra Suite,
Amarok
Amarok may refer to:
Music
* Amarok (band), a Spanish progressive rock band
* ''Amarok'' (Mike Oldfield album), 1990
* ''Amarok'' (Nargaroth album), 2000
* ''Amarok'', 2010 album by Francisco López (musician)
Other uses
* Amarok (wolf), in In ...
,
Digikam, and other applications that are not part of KDE core.
References
External links
People behind KDE Blog of Cornelius
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KDE
Free software programmers
1969 births
Living people