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+Hi, here are some things that might not be immediately clear :
+
+- There are different source dirs ( kig, objects, misc, filters and
+  modes ) ( just in case this wasn't clear.. )
+
+- for testing code, i don't really know how you're supposed to do this with
+  kparts, so i just do a "make install" every time, and then simply run the
+  program, you prolly want to do "./configure --enable-debug=full
+  --prefix=/usr/local/kde3" (meanwhile, i found out, the solution is in a
+  developer faq on developer.kde.org
+  (http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/developer-faq.html#q67.1)
+
+- There is some documentation about the design in the file DESIGN
+
+- if you want to contribute, your work is more than welcome, no matter where
+  you want to help: translation, coding, art, just send us a mail at
+  kde-edu-devel@kde.org (preferably before you start, so you won't be
+  doing unnecessary work or something like that), if you have cvs access,
+  you can of course always commit to cvs
+
+HISTORY
+
+I started Kig because we were using "Cabri" in school, a proprietary
+windows-only app.  When I started looking for free alternatives that ran on
+linux, i found two: KGeo and KSeg. Both had features and limitations, KSeg
+had most features, but was ugly.  Furthermore, it was qt-only, which did
+allow it to run on windows too, but made it not fit into kde.  KGeo was
+fully KDE, but didn't have all the features that KSeg had.
+
+I first wanted to merge both together, but the code was rather incompatible,
+so I wanted to simply extend KGeo.  Since I was planning to make it a kpart
+app, i started with "kapptemplate --kpart-app", and then started coding.  I
+was first planning to use lots of code from both kgeo and kseg, but i ended
+up recoding everything since in many cases it was faster than porting stuff,
+and i wanted to change rather much in the code.
+
+I did get much inspiration from the source of both programs, and i used some
+source and many pictures from KGeo, I would therefore want to thank both
+developers for their work.
+
+I also want to thank everyone who contributed something to Kig or to
+free software in general.
+
+Cheers,
+
+The Kig Developers