Matthias Ettrich
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Matthias Ettrich (born June 14, 1972 in [Bietigheim], southern Germany) is the computer scientist who founded the KDE project in 1996, when he proposed on Usenet a "consistant, nice looking free desktop-environment" [sic] [link] for UNIX using the Qt GUI toolkit.
Ettrich also founded and furthered the LyX project in 1995, initially conceived as a university term project. LyX is a graphical frontend to TeX. Since LyX's main target platform was Linux, he started to explore different ways to improve the graphical user interface (GUI), which ultimately lead him to the KDE project.
Ettrich studied for his M.Sc in Computer Science at the Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science at the Eberhard Karls university in Tübingen. He currently resides in Berlin, Germany. He works for Trolltech as Director of Software Development, with responsibility for Qt and its development team.
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