Introduction ...

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Op Tuesday 24 April 2007, schreef Sandro Andrade:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to present myself and expose my desire to contribute to KDE
> development.
>
> My name is Sandro Andrade and I've been using FreeBSD and GNU/Linux since
> 1997 both as user and developer, and I have special interest in development
> using the standard C++ language.
> I've been working for the past eight years with object oriented-design and
> implementation using C++ and I am a quite appraiser and full-time user of
> KDevelop and Qt technologies. Qt3 and KDevelop have been my major
> development technologies in the last four years and recently I join a
> research project that relies entirely on Qt4.
>
> As part of my master dissertation, I've been designing and developing a
> reusable component-based platform for industrial data acquisition based on
> CORBA Component Model (CCM), the CIAO (Component-Integrated ACE ORB)
> middleware (http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html), and Qt3. Our
> project, called ARCOS (http://arcos.sf.net), encompass a OMG DAIS (Data
> Acquisition from Industrial Systems) Standard implementation and qt3-based
> client applications for industrial supervision.
>
> I hope to become an effective KDE contributor and I would be grateful for
> some initial guidelines. I'm currently compiling the last snapshot for KDE
> 4.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sandro Andrade

This mail recently from Adriaan de Groot should be helpfull ;-)

Also, http://techbase.kde.org/ is a must-read (but you most likely found that 
site already)

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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/
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Ik ben niet verantwoordelijk voor wijzigingen van de wereld, of het beeld wat 
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