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It's still pending the KDE e.v.'s board budget approval, but if everything goes ok, we are going to have our first meeting during the final days of April in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Developers from Kraft, Skrooge, Association Subscriber Manager, and KMyMoney are going to get together to discuss how we can integrate our applications and work together to have the best finance application stack for free desktop users.

One of the main topics will be FinanceStack, a planned engine to integrate the workflow of our applications and exchange data among them. We could even add data resources to it, so that online banking, file import/export, and online quotes could be done through it. This might be the beginning of a new pillar of KDE, like Akonadi or Nepomuk are today. Time will tell if it can live up to the expectations.

Other work will include our much-delayed work on a common set of icons, a common glossary, and I'm sure a lot more subjects will come up once we meet in person and start talking. So far, there is a very good tone in the mailing list and that will improve even more when are face-to-face.

What the meeting will be not, is a merge of the applications. For those who ask why KMyMoney and Skrooge don't merge, that will not happen, at least not in the foreseeable future. We have a very good relationship and we work together where it makes sense, but we are not merging our projects or with any other applications.