Welcome New Contributors!

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Thanks for the update, Johnny!

Valorie

On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 8:04 AM Johnny Jazeix <jazeix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Le mar. 24 mai 2022 à 00:36, Valorie Zimmerman <
> valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> A small mistake when we wrote this: this year, Akademy will be back in
> person in Barcelona, Spain from Saturday 1st to Friday the 7th of October,
> 2022.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Johnny
>
> 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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