offer to help kde-pim

[Sandro Knauß]

Hey,

first welcome Markus! I really enjoy to read about that kind of help you offer. 
I think the current members are not good in these topics you mentioned so help 
it really appreciated. 

I think Akademy is a good place to sit together and talk.

There will be a KDE PIM BoF, but this normally dives deep into current coding 
issues and coordinating ongoing transitions. For non coders it may be not the 
best way to get into contact ;)

Maybe we should plan a second BoF that is more focused on the non coding part:
something like:
- How to do bug triage
- Where non coding help is needed
- update and improve KDE Wikis
- update user documentation
- look through extensions on the kde store
- ...

> At Academy in Vienna 2018 I did a long troubleshooting talk on Kontact... 
Yeah I remember your talk and the feeling - oh there are people promoting 
KDEPIM and I don't know this person in advanced. - That was great ;)

> I will be in Berlin from Sept 3 to 8. Akademy here we come :-)

Me too.

See you in Berlin,

hefee

PS there is also a KDEPIM sprint planned in December in Paris:

https://community.kde.org/Sprints/PIM/2025

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> Am Dienstag, 19. August 2025, 17:08:51 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb
> 
> Allen Winter:
> > a few of us hang-out on matrix in the #kontact channel.
> > 
> > We can help you better I think face-to-face in a chat than via email.
> > 
> > I probably still have admin permissions on bugs.kde.org to give you access
> > to edit/close bugs.
> > On Monday, August 18, 2025 10:32:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time Markus
> > Feilner
> 
> wrote:
> > > I may need an introduction to bugs.kde.org (not being a developer), but
> > > maybe we can help there...
> > > 
> > > Am Montag, 18. August 2025, 15:26:39 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
> > > schrieb
> > > 
> > > Allen Winter:
> > > > Wonderful.
> > > > 
> > > > I mostly concentrate on KOrganizer.
> > > > For me, continual testing the master branch would be very helpful.
> > > > Also cleaning up the bugs at bugs.kde.org for KOrganizer would help
> > > > motivate me.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm sure for the the other Kontact parts (especially KMail) too.
> > > > it's not fun to see 1000++ KMail bugs going back 20 years; many for
> > > > ancient, unmaintained versions.
> > > > On Monday, August 18, 2025 6:42:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time Markus
> > > > Feilner
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > > > > Hey KDE-PIM,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I want to offer my help. I've been a happy user of KDE and
> > > > > Kontact/Kmail
> > > > > for decades. Will you guys be at Akademy in Berlin?
> > > > > 
> > > > > We're no coders, but if there are things we can do - let me know.
> > > > > 
> > > > > At Academy in Vienna 2018 I did a long troubleshooting talk on
> > > > > Kontact...
> > > > > I
> > > > > can do things like that again. Other than that, writing, talking,
> > > > > PR,
> > > > > and
> > > > > also testing is things where we can help... and by that I mean not
> > > > > support and / or business offers 🙂 I want to help the project, pro
> > > > > bono,
> > > > > not for money. 🙂
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks for the great work!