Welcome New Contributors!

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Greetings new Contributors! Please excuse the delay in welcoming you to the
KDE Community and adding you all to the student mail list, KDE-Soc at
kde.org.
If you have not used a mail list before, this will be your introduction to
this old and still very useful tech. While the program continues, you must
stay subscribed so we can address all contributors at one time.

In addition, please ask one another questions, keeping in mind that most
members of the list are fellow students, although some of the
administrators, mentors and former students are subscribed as well.

If you have not yet subscribed to the KDE developers list, please do so,
along with your own team's list if they have one. Talk to the team about
their preferred channel of communication, and use it. Some of the IRC
channels /Matrix rooms and Telegram groups are bridged. Remember
that the official venue of communication is always the mail list.

https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel for more information.

There is a room for KDE GSoC mentors/Contributors:
https://webchat.kde.org/#/room/#kde-soc:kde.org.

By now you should have your developer account set up so that you can commit
to your team's codebase, and review the commits of your fellow devels.
KDE's reason for participating in Google Summer of Code is not to get code
from you. Instead, our goal is new KDE Developers! This is why we require
frequent communication from YOU, each of you, with your team and your
mentor(s). Please ask your questions in public, NOT privately.
Yes, this may feel uncomfortable at first, but this is what works best for
everyone. Remember, this is not class, college or university.

Private communication is OK if you are passing along truly private
information, such as your private contact information. Otherwise, it is
important that all communication be public. We make Free software in the
open.

Most of your questions should be asked of the team with which you are
working or other public channels, but questions that only your fellow
Contributors can answer are welcome here. We notice who asks questions, and
who is helpful to their fellow students. Remember, this is not a
*competition* -- we are all in this together, and helping one another is
what KDE is all about. We are a community who makes software, and we
welcome each of you in.

We have created report pages
https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2022/StatusReports where you should copy the
content from the template and use it to write your own report that will be
the final link to send to Google.

Don't forget to add your blog to the planet-kde now if you have not yet
done so you can share your progress with the community and post frequently
(a MR like
https://invent.kde.org/websites/planet-kde-org/-/merge_requests/115/diffs).

Please consider also joining the KDE Community ML:
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community, and registering for
Akademy: https://akademy.kde.org/2022/cfp - online only again this year.

Feel free to respond to this message with questions and clarifications.

Valorie Zimmerman for the KDE GSoC administration team.

PS: if you have an administration issue, you may write to use directly:
kde-soc-management at kde.org

-- 
http://about.me/valoriez - pronouns: she/her
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