Bart Coppens was born in 1985 and currently studies computer science at a Belgian university. He first encountered KDE because it came with SuSE6.4, and never used anything else since then. Around the end of 2003, he started to follow the development of a KDE application that back then was obviously in need of some help: Krita. After looking around a bit, he decided to help around, and has sticked around ever since.