[dot] KDE Quality Team Revisited

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1081559125/

From: Tom Chance <>
Dept: give-us-some-love
Date: Saturday 10/Apr/2004, @03:05

KDE Quality Team Revisited
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   At the beginning of March, the KDE Project announced
[http://dot.kde.org/1078249862/] the launch of the Quality Teams Project
[http://quality.kde.org], a new effort to help people contribute to KDE,
whether you are a programmer or not. Lots of people showed interest, and
we enjoyed an initial burst of activity, so read on to find out what has
happened, and how you can get involved in your favourite desktop
environment, and see your work being distributed around the world.

     I'll briefly cover work done on artwork, KDE Edutainment, KOffice,
KDE Multimedia, KDE PIM, Konqueror, and working with the media. If you
want to help any of these, now is a good time to jump in. Of course, the
place to start is the Quality Teams Project homepage
[http://quality.kde.org], but this will help you get an idea of what is
going on already.
     Remember, in Quality Teams you can do as little or as much as you
want. No experience is required, and you can contribute code,
documentation, artwork, discuss user interfaces and usability, manage
bugs and bug reports, manage the wiki pages, communicate between
developers and the wider community, and promote KDE through the media.
There's something for everybody :-)
     KDE Artwork
     This Quality Team has barely started, so if you've been
contributing artwork on KDE Look [http://www.kde-look.org] for some
time, or if you'd just like to help out, there's plenty to do. The team
page
[http://wiki.kdenews.org/tiki-index.php?page=Quality+Team+KDE+Artists]
suggests three simple tasks to begin with:
 Create artwork for specific events/applications (possibly through
competitions on KDE Look) Keep packaged artwork up to date Find
promising artwork and mark it on this page for KNewStuff integration
with KDE applications  To get started, read through the team page,
subscribe to the KDE Artists mailing list and introduce yourself, then
start on whatever interests you!

 KDE Edutainment
     The Edutainment team has seen lots of activity, including CDs
containing CVS copies being sent out to contributors. There are still
plenty of jobs going, so if you use Edutainment software, and would like
to help shape its direction, have a look through their team page
[http://wiki.kdenews.org/tiki-index.php?page=Quality+Team+KDE+Edu]

 KOffice
     The KOffice team now has new people working on KSpread, and is in
need of more people to step up and volunteer for individual
applications. There's also some web site work that needs doing, if you
can migrate HTML pages to XHTML. Again, check the team page here
[http://wiki.kdenews.org/tiki-index.php?page=Quality+Team+KDE+Koffice].

 KDE Multimedia
     The Multimedia team has barely started any work, but there's plenty
to do. The big decision over the multimedia framework (will it be aRts,
Gstreamer, NMM, MAS, or another?) needs to be brought into the KDE
community and beyond; the developers need help dealing with bugs that
aren't related to KDE; and there's plenty more of the usual work. Find
out more on their team page
[http://wiki.kdenews.org/tiki-index.php?page=Quality+Team+KDE+Multimedia].


 KDE Pim
     The PIM team has seen lots of activity, with a lot of work on
updating documentation already begun. There's also an open job to work
on calendars for KOrganizer, and an open task for developers for
Kontact, all found on their team page
[http://wiki.kdenews.org/tiki-index.php?page=Quality+Team+KDE+PIM].

 Konqueror
     This isn't a team, so much as a project undertaken by various
people on the Quality Team mailing list. To help Konqueror developers
improve the KHTML rendering engine, a page of incorrectly rendered web
pages
[http://wiki.kdenews.org/tiki-index.php?page=Konqueror%3A+The+Bugged+Websites]
has been created. This page needs contributions from frustrated
Konqueror users, and volunteers to check over the page and help the
KHTML developers get the most out of it.

 KDE Media
     Have you ever wanted to work in the media? If you want to write
articles, do interviews, be interviewed, or help send press releases out
and generally help promote KDE, then the Quality Teams Project is ready
to help you. I have written an accesible guide to working with the media
[http://quality.kde.org/develop/howto/howtomedia.php], aimed at those
who have never done media work before. So if you'd like to get involved,
read the guide and introduce on the Quality Team Project mailing list.
We can help you get articles into various major Free Software / KDE /
software related publications, so what better way to start your career
than by helping KDE?