Getting Involved

[Bridger Reed-Lewis]

Alrighty I will do that then, idk how fast the work will get done though
but I’m very optimistic.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 14:39 Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:

> 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>
> >
> >
>
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