Getting Involved

[Nate Graham]

I think you're talking to them. Like I said, if you can't do the work or 
fund the work, the remaining option is to motivate volunteers to do the 
work, and this is one of the places where people who care about 
accessibility can be found. :)


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


On 6/10/25 4:35 PM, Bridger Reed-Lewis wrote:
> Yeah I can figure something out, funding is going to be difficult with 
> everything going on federally. But I’m sure there’s private interests 
> that could help. Once I’m ready to give a report from the testing I’ve 
> done.
> 
> Who should I contact within KDE? Because I really want to get this off 
> the ground, along with insuring accessibility needs are being addressed.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 14:27 Nate Graham <nate at kde.org 
> <mailto:nate at kde.org>> wrote:
> 
>     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 <https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/16/where-
>     bugfixes-and-new-features-come-from>
> 
>