introduction

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Monday 23 April 2007 23:56, Eugeniu Plamadeala wrote:
> As suggested by quality.kde.org, I would like to announce my desire to
> contribute to KDE, but I'm not completely sure what exactly is the best way
> to go about it.

This list exists to point you in the right direction (well, sortof).

> I've been using GNU/Linux most intensively for about 1.5 years; and
> exclusively for about 4 months. I think I have quite a bit of knowledge
> about how things work, and why they don not work sometimes.

Welcome! Put on your hacking suit.

First, pick what you want to work on. It could be KDE4 in general, or a KDE3 
application -- KDE4 will be out in six months, so there's still lots to do 
there in terms of porting, but the development environment can be tricky to 
set up.

> Additionally, I know Romanian an Russian.

You could also help out the translation team. I believe Quanta, the HTML 
editor, is mostly the work of Andras Mantia in .ro .

> I would highly appreciate any suggestions of ways I could contribute to the
> community.

We're not very directive; generally it's a matter of *you* picking what you 
want to work on and then doing it. Find something that bothers you and fix 
it. However, KDE PIM could definitely use help. Stop by #kontact to help out 
with KDE4 porting of the PIM applications.

-- 
Adriaan de Groot
  KDE Quality Team   http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/
  SQO-OSS Researcher http://www.sqo-oss.eu/