<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Deep,<br><br></div>Thanks for the reply to Maulik, you're pretty right about all of the steps. What I will like to add is that it is a good idea to subscribe to the mailing list of kde-devel and the project you are working on (in PMC's case, it is plasma-devel). You can find a list of all mailing lists here <a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo</a> .<br>
<br></div>Happy contributing!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Deep Laxman Sukhwani <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deepsukhwani@gmail.com" target="_blank">deepsukhwani@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey Maulik,<div><br></div><div>Just like you, I am too a newbie and attended conf.kde at DA-IICT last weekend.</div>
<div><br></div><div>From what I have been observing at the mailing lists and reading past mailing list archives, best thing is to start with installation of Kubuntu 13.10 (if you haven't already done so) and then first get yourself familiar with it by using it as your routine operating system for sometime.</div>
<div><br></div><div>After that have plasma media center setup on your system and start using that as you would use your current primary media application (iTunes may be if you are on a Mac or Windows Media Player / VLC / etc if you are on Windows). Familiarity is important with the application that you want to work on, only then you can realise the bugs or think of new features that would fit the current ones.</div>
<div>You can check out the community page for Plasma Media Center here: <a href="http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center" target="_blank">http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center</a> (Page was last modified on <i>25 Feb 2014</i> at the time of writing this email, hence you can expect it to be up to date)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Once comfortable with KDE and plasma media center applications, Sign up for KDE bugs portal (<a href="https://bugs.kde.org/" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org</a>) and start looking at junior jobs on KDE website or if you can't find any junior jobs that you can work on, start looking at bugs relating to plasma media center on KDE bugs site. An example of bug relating to plasma media center: <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328394" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328394</a>. Here Sinny and Shantanu have worked on this bug (if you remember these guys were there at conf.kde)</div>
<div><br></div><div>On another mailing list thread, Kushal had shared this PDF document that I really found useful as someone who is new to mailing lists / forums / IRC etc even if you aren't familiar with these community oriented communication channels, a quick look on this document will help you gain some community guidelines (not rules, but basic etiquette):</div>
<div><a href="http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/communication-guidelines.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/communication-guidelines.pdf</a><br></div><div><br>
</div><div>Read it once whenever you have free time, should not take more than 10 / 15 mins.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Then rest is all on your interest and keen ness to contribute to project. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope this helps, and if this response isn't appropriate, expect a response from someone else soon.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">--</font><font color="#000000"><br>Regards<br></font><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000">Deep L Sukhwani<br>Mob:<a value="+919687000830"> +91 9687 000 830 /</a> <a value="+919687000830">+91 75036 10708</a></font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 25 February 2014 18:16, Maulik Kotadia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maulikkotadia@gmail.com" target="_blank">maulikkotadia@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
<div dir="ltr">Hi sir,<br> My self maulik and im from daiict
pursuing my mastres degree. i attended the last KDE conference and got
to learn many new things from you guys .thanks for that. im very much
interested to get involve in KDE plus plasma media center and
fortunately its also a part of the GSoC 2014.<br>
I know c++ and concentrating on QT and QML right now.i would
appreciate if you can give me some basic idea where can i start. Thanks
in advance<br></div>
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