R: joining to the team

[Luca Manzari]

Hi Philip,
I'm only 16 years old, but I'm really interested in free software and I
wanna help it's diffusion and usability. I'm learning C++, I know a little
bit of php and html, but because of I'm not so expert in programming (as I
said, I'm learning C++, but I'm just at the beginning!!! :-) I thought that
could be a good idea helping in translation and beta-testing. Could you help
me? I'm Italian, so I could translate English manuals and programs to
Italian...What have I to do for beeing an "official" translator? And what
about beta-testing?
Thanks to all!
Luca

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Philip Rodrigues [mailto:philip.rodrigues at chch.ox.ac.uk] 
Inviato: mercoledì 11 gennaio 2006 13.35
A: Contributors support and coordination, to make KDE rock!
Oggetto: Re: joining to the team

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 5:49 pm, Szilágyi Ferenc wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i'm Ferenc Szilágyi, a hungarian student. I'd like to join to your 
> team,  to do something useful. I've some experience in developing, and 
> i want to intruduce my knowledge.
>
> Please, tell me how can I contribute in your job.

If you know C++, you can help with coding. You'll also need to know Qt and
the KDE libraries. You can find a tutorial for Qt on doc.trolltech.com and
KDE development tutorials on developer.kde.org . Currently the main KDE
libraries are being ported to Qt 4, so it's a little bit harder than usual
to get involved with developing the main part of KDE. However, KOffice and
KDevelop are both in active development, and I'm sure they'd be happy to get
new volunteers.

There are also lots of non-coding things available to help with: 
documentation, translation, websites, artwork, etc. The docs team have
several technical projects ongoing, and we'd be happy to have help with
them. 
Some examples: 
* Improving the XML and XSLT tools used to convert KDE Docbook documentation
to other formats (HTML, PDF).
* Making PDF versions of the non-English KDE documentation
* Adding features to the documentation website docs.kde.org (needs PHP).

If any of those are interesting to you, just email me and we can talk about
what to do next.

Regards,
Philip
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