[Panel-devel] Joining the team

[Wade Olson]

Hi Markus,

Thanks for the email and welcome!

I know that interest is booming for Plasma, which is turning into both a 
blessing and a curse for Aaron. Hopefully with aKademy coming up shortly, 
more information and immediate tasks will be forthcoming.

In the interim, for people who are just joining this young project, can I 
recommend:
* Give everyone a brief synopsis of your background (student/professional, 
home country, software experience, KDE experience)
* List where you think you might fit in initially (and remember that not 
everyone can just step in and do the fun work of drawing on a whiteboard and 
having legions do their C++ bidding)
* Do your project homework. Learn as much about Plasma as you can from:
http://plasma.kde.org/cms/1086
http://plasma.kde.org/wiki/
http://kde-artists.org/main/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,48/expv,0/board,5.0
http://appeal.kde.org/wiki/Appeal
http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/ssuperkaramba.html (for historical 
reference)
Competitive analysis: Apple, MS, Gnome, 3rd party widgets
* Do your functional homework. For example, if you plan on helping with 
usability, make sure you are familiar with sites like:
http://www.openusability.org/
http://www.kde.org/areas/guidelines/html/
(and many other interface guidelines...like apple.com <http://apple.com>'s 
work)
Or, if you plan on coding, of course you want to be familiar with:
http://developer.kde.org/
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/
http://qtdeveloper.net/
Any site that help with OOA/OOD/Design Patterns

These simple steps can help others learn more about you, help Aaron organize 
skill sets and person-power, and minimize initial delays due to lack of 
preparation.

No matter how people feel about software development bureaucracy, there are 
very basic project planning and resourcing tasks that have to be coordinated 
with such a large disparate group forming so quickly.

Not only is Plasma going to be unbelievable, but it's really going to get 
people to learn about more sophisticated programming techniques, usability 
and various testing methodologies. I'd say this group is a microcosm of what 
going to go on with KDE in general as it expreiences growing pains.

So welcome, and hold tight while things get organized, but hopefully there's 
plenty everyone can do in the meantime to sharpen their skills and 
familiarity.

Wade

*Note: This email does not necessarily reflect the views of those that know 
their head from their arse.


On 8/24/05, Markus Hofmann <markus.hofmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I want to join the plasma team too.
> 
> For four weeks I read an interesting article about the plasma project
> and I subscribed the mailing list. With the help of Hans I got kde4
> compiled on my computer.
> 
> I don't have experience in QT programming but I'm interested to learn.
> 
> I'm really motivated to help you.
> 
> Greeting
> 
> Markus
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