I have arrived...

[Tom Chance]

Hello there,

On Friday 16 Jul 2004 12:34, illogic-al wrote:
> after a fashion. Sooooo just what do you guys do here?
> Oh! Where're my manners. I'm illogic-al (in more ways than one) and i like
> to write, despite being in a similar situation as the person in my
> signature below :-)
> I'll probably lurk a while before doing anything so just pretend I'm not
> even here for now.

No, I refuse :) First you ought to have a look around the Quality Team web 
site:

http://quality.kde.org/

You'll see that we help people contribute to KDE, either by writing 
documentation, helping in user interface (UI) design, reporting and managing 
bugs, writing code, communicating between developers and users, or promoting 
KDE.

Since you say you like to write, and I see from a quick search that you've 
done a nice preview of KDE 3.2, I'd guess that writing documentation and 
journalism would be a natural place for you to start. So I'd suggest reading 
the HOWTOs for those areas in particular.

What you do then is up to you. Most people who actually go on to participate 
in KDE tend to pick a particular application and focus their work on that, so 
you might want to write documentation or articles on your favourite app. If 
you're interested in journalism, there's also a fair bit of promo work that 
needs to be done for the aKademy. Basically, just think about what you'd like 
to do, and then feel free to ask here for help :)

Regards,
Tom