TDE is a true community project. Free of hierarchy based classes wars, 
everyone is equal.

The Trinity development team listens to and attempts to give its many end 
users what they want/need. Without looking down at them and/or scoffing at 
their ideas and suggestions. They also take every bug, error and compaint 
report seriously. 

This, sadly is becoming rare among FOSS these days. The only other projects I 
know that take this "All for one and one for all" approach are Ark Linux, 
Unity Linux (and it's various child distros) and Yoper Linux. I believe/hope 
there are a few more. 

This is something to be proud of, and this is likely to product an 
unparalleled desktop environment.

For what its worth...

Kate Draven
Ark Linux/Yoper Linux/Unity Linux
KDE3x/TDE/E17/LXDE