Getting Involved

[Nate Graham]

Hi Bridger,

To help manage expectations here, the KDE e.V. board isn't directly 
involved with most technical planning and decision-making; 99.99% of the 
time we aren't directing what features get worked on by who. Generally 
speaking, the way changes and features get implemented in KDE is that it 
gets done by people who are passionate about the work, or who are paid 
to do it.

If you can't do this work yourself, another option is to line up funding 
to pay someone else to do it. If that's not forthcoming either, the 
remaining option is to try to motivate volunteers to do the work in 
addition to or instead of the work they were already doing. This isn't 
impossible; I've had reasonably good success with it over the years. But 
there's never a guarantee of success with it comes to motivating 
volunteers. Hence "manage expectations."

I wrote a blog post on this topic back in 2023 that's relevant here and 
still accurate: 
https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/16/where-bugfixes-and-new-features-come-from

-- 
Nate Graham
KDE e.V. Board of Directors



On 6/10/25 4:17 PM, Bridger Reed-Lewis wrote:
> Oh, and to be clear, I don't have any background in coding and am just 
> here to test along with advice. If the board takes me seriously it is up 
> to them. Due to my disability, learning to code is not an option for me. 
> Shervin that git you shared, could you make a video about it showcasing 
> how it work, because i'd like to add it to a spreadsheet, i will be 
> putting together soon.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM Bridger Reed-Lewis 
> <bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com <mailto:bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Because right now, it requires someone with the knowledge of the
>     terminal, along with access to chatgpt to troubleshoot. If not they
>     either have to know what they’re doing or rely on the community to
>     help them.
> 
>     What I’m envisioning is something that built into the settings very
>     similar to what Apple has, so I think in about 2 months I should
>     have a decent presentation and summary of what they can do.
> 
>     On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 13:59 Shervin Emami <shervin.emami at gmail.com
>     <mailto:shervin.emami at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         That sounds like a great idea.
> 
>         Cheers,
>         Shervin.
> 
>         On Wed, 11 June 2025, 5:35 am Bridger Reed-Lewis,
>         <bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com <mailto:bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com>>
>         wrote:
> 
>             I think my goal is to test these out, and meet with the
>             board along with the accessibility person they hired to
>             recommend some changes for the OS so that these things are
>             more integrated into the system so that those with
>             disabilities can just easily use these out of the box
> 
>             On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 03:46 Shervin Emami
>             <shervin.emami at gmail.com <mailto:shervin.emami at gmail.com>>
>             wrote:
> 
>                 Oh ok, so Bridger was thinking that the functionality is
>                 already integrated into the dedktop environment, whereas
>                 I was thinking that Bridger is willing to implement the
>                 integration into KDE.
> 
>                 The speech recognition engines convert speech files to
>                 text, they don't have any OS integration. But it's not
>                 that hard to implement basic OS integration by getting
>                 speech recognition to emulate pressing keys on a
>                 keyboard. I hacked together my own basic scripts for
>                 doing that. You could turn my script into something more
>                 convenient to use:
> 
>                 https://github.com/shervinemami/push-to-whisper
>                 <https://github.com/shervinemami/push-to-whisper>
> 
> 
>                 Cheers,
>                 Shervin.
> 
>                 On Mon, 9 June 2025, 8:37 pm Bridger Reed-Lewis,
>                 <bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com
>                 <mailto:bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>                     It’s installing right now, and no it’s not a feature
>                     yet from what I know. I’m going to see how accurate
>                     it is though once I get back from work. From what I
>                     understand though it runs this in a separate window
>                     not with the os, which is what I’m looking for
>                     similar to what Apple and windows does it.
> 
> 
>                     On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 02:06 Benson Muite
>                     <benson_muite at emailplus.org
>                     <mailto:benson_muite at emailplus.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>                         On Mon, Jun 9, 2025, at 12:52 PM, Bridger Reed-
>                         Lewis wrote:
>                          > Hey so I set up what I could with a older
>                         laptop but I was looking through
>                          > our past conversations, and I wasn’t aware
>                         that faster-whisper didn’t work
>                          > within program, is there a effort to fix this?
> 
>                         You would probably need to file a bug report,
>                         but without more details it is unclear
>                         where.  For example, which program does it not
>                         work with? Does it work with any
>                         programs? Is this on Arch with KDE on Wayland?
>                         Do other programs similar to
>                         fast-whisper work?
>