Welcome, students!

[Valorie Zimmerman]

New students especially, welcome to GSoC and welcome to KDE.

Now it is community bonding time, so please take some time to just get
to know your mentor(s), the team with which you will work, and the
community at large.

Much of the immediate day-to-day communicaton takes place on IRC, so
if you can, hang out in the appropriate channels. #kde-soc and
#kde-devel will be appropriate for all of you, and many teams have
their own channels as well. You can use "alis" to search for channels,
like this: /msg alis list *searchterm*. Results print out in your
server tab.

All teams use mail lists to do most of their business, so please
ensure you are subscribed to all necessary MLs, including KDE-devel.
The KDE-community list will be useful for information and discussion
about big issues and up-coming events, such as Akademy in September.
Some teams also use hangouts, mumble, Telegram or other messaging
systems for meetings and discussion. Please use *this* list to talk to
your fellow students and get their advice or feedback. Most mentors
are not subscribed to this list.

To speak directly to the GSoC admins, either ask in #kde-soc, or
privately by mail to kde-soc-mentor-owner at kde.org. Best to write to
that address rather than to any of us privately, please.

If you have not gotten your blog set up on KDE Planet, now is a good
time to do that. Learning how to use bugs.kde.org (protip: your KDE
Identity doesn't work there; you have to create a login just for
bugzilla), the wikis, reviewboard or phabricator, getting your ssh
keys uploaded, developer account activated, git set up, etc. will keep
you busy for a few days, but please take time just to get to know us,
and where to turn for help if you need it.

Please talk to us when things are going well, and even more if they
are going badly. Don't suffer in silence! Ask, and you will find help,
and friends.

Again, welcome.

All the best,

Valorie, for the KDE GSoC admin team

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http://about.me/valoriez