Cornelius Schumacher (born 1 December 1969 in
Tübingen
Tübingen (, , Swabian: ''Dibenga'') is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers. about one in three ...
, Germany) is a German
open source software developer. He was born in Tübingen but lives in
Erlangen
Erlangen (; East Franconian: ''Erlang'', Bavarian: ''Erlanga'') is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district Erlangen-Höchstadt (former administrative district Erlangen), and with 116,062 inhab ...
, Germany.
Biography
He has been a
KDE
KDE is an international free software community that develops free and open-source software. As a central development hub, it provides tools and resources that allow collaborative work on this kind of software. Well-known products include the ...
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 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
The Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) is a procedural software cost estimation model developed by Barry W. Boehm. The model parameters are derived from fitting a regression formula using data from historical projects (63 projects for COCOMO 81 ...
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
Calligra Suite is a graphic art and office suite by KDE. It is available for desktop PCs, tablet computers, and smartphones. It contains applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, databases, vector graphics, and digital paintin ...
,
Amarok,
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