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Hi KDE
I would like to know how I go about having KDE accept an existing project of mine into the KDE mine share.

I have been a professional software development since 1978. I have pretty much explored every aspect of the art, writing device drivers, embedded system, satellite control, custom OS, AI etc.

From about 1990, for strictly profit reasons, all my energies were focused on the development of finicial software systems. For about the last 7 years, I have been responsible for the development of major software that produce analytics use by CitiBank, Daucher Bank, First Boston, Mellon Bank etc.. In fact when you open the Wall Street Journal and see the fund performance
numbers from Lipper Analytics, you are probably looking at numbers that were produce by analytics systems built by me, several years ago, for that company.

I have built a Real-Time Market feed server along with Market History Archiving and Real-Time News Archiving clients of the server. The serve and its archiving tools are being used by a number of traders at this moment to feed there trading systems.

The server and archiving clients represent a significant effort on my part and it was my intension in building a set of standard analytical tools/clients of the
server such as
0. Real-Time Market & News Server.
1. Real-Time Market Archiving tools
2. Real-Time New Archiving Tools
3. Standard Charting tools used by traders
4. Standard Business Statistical Package
5. Time Series Analysis Package
6. Risk Metrics
7. Analytics base on the Value at Risk metrics
8. Derivatives
9. Fixed income analysis system.

Why these packages? These are the investment tools I or and other have been contracted to built over and over, over and over, over and over at different instutions.

They would be perfect project for the Open Source community, since these packages are so generic to a great number of Financial Instution.

My Contribution to this project will be the first three items.

Althought I am currently streamling the coding to the first three items, they represent about 700,000 to 800,000 line of C++ code took me 3 months of 14 to 20 hours days to get it to a point that I found useful.

It is my belief that KDE and Open Source are in general ignoring one of the biggest investors and users of software and hardware in the enterprise, that being the instutional traders; My experience is the trading department of instutions tend to have deep pockets and great latitude when it comes
to purchasing systems that will make their company money. These people are the big money makers in their enterpise and don't have any platform ajendas. They only care about having the best software to make money for themselves. So the success of this project would a big shot in the arm for Open Source with with the very powerful Financial Instutions; The enterprise.

Is is not clear to me how I go about establishing a KDE mine share project rather than a straight Open Source project. So, please bare with me if I over looked something in www.kde.org. However, hopefully this e-mail has established what I have in mind and you can direct me to the proper location.

No matter what the results of this inqury is this project goes live January 1st 2004. Hopefully some of you will be joining me in this effort.

Although I am fully capable of Designing all the sub-projects, it would be nice to get some people/programmers who have experience in
Financial Derivatives, Time Series Analysis, and Statistical Modeling

Given my experience with these type of project I expect to complete these projects within the next three years should I have to write everything myself. Hopefully some of you will join me so I don't have too