Announcing KDE e.V.'s two new contractors to work on KDE's technical documentation

[Eike Hein]

Hi everyone,

Some time ago, KDE e.V. decided to contract work to help the KDE community with its efforts to maintain and improve KDE's technical documentation, broadly similar to how KDE e.V. also contracts work within the KDE Promo community already. Juan Carlos Torres was hired to set the stage with an initial three-months long project analyzing and reporting on the current state of KDE's documentation. Based on this information KDE e.V. published a new job ad in 2021, which we have now completed hiring for.

Today we're happy to announce two new KDE e.V. contractors to the community. They will be working hard with many of you to create and improve technical documentation, as well as tooling used to generate and publish documentation. Both of them are no strangers to the KDE community:

Frederik Schwarzer has been a KDE contributor for about 15 years. He has been a long-time contributor to KDE's German translation and KDE applications, for example as a maintainer of KShisen, one of KDE's games. Having professionally worked on software development and writing documentation previously, he's excited to dive deeper into KDE's documentation next.

Carl Schwan has also been very active in the community for several years already, greatly improving many of KDE's websites and building infrastructure to maintain them, and contributing to many KDE applications. He had already set his sights on improving the tooling used for KDE's technical documentation and will continue to do so on behalf of KDE e.V. for the next three months.


Both Frederik and Carl have started their work this week. They'll be active in the #kde-docs channel and on the kde-docs-english mailing list, and also involve themselves in for example the ongoing meetings to plan KDE Frameworks 6 development soon to assist the community with this important upcoming transition. Let's document all the things!



Cheers,
Eike
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KDE e.V. Vice President