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Code for KDE

Add new features and fix bugs without proprietary software restrictions. Find creative and challenging programming tasks("puzzles"). Free mentorship for beginners and junior tasks for beginners.

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Accessibility: volunteer your design, coding, testing and/or writing skills

Help people with visual, auditory and motor disabilities by making KDE software easy to use.

Identify bugs related to accessibility or areas where accessibility can be improved.

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Design visual and human interface features for KDE

As a KDE visual designer, you make intuitive software that requires little to no training for KDE users.

You tasks include contributing wireframes and designing User Interface elements.

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Web design: design websites for KDE

As a web designer, you ensure that KDE website homepages leave a positive first impression. Your work helps website visitors accomplish their tasks and supports KDE's goals, including:growing donations, increasing downloads, and attracting new contributors.

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Quality assurance for KDE apps: report, test and confirm bugs

As a quality assurance analyst and tester, your role is to ensure KDE software is stable, functional, usable, etc. Your tasks include reporting bugs you encounter while using KDE app(s), testing and confirm bugs reported by KDE users on KDE Bugs Website(bug triaging).

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Write documentation for KDE

As a KDE technical writer, your task is to help KDE users and contributors by writing and editing wikis, tutorials, manuals, and API documentation

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Translate for KDE

As a KDE translator, you help people who are learning English use a computer by translating KDE Software User Interfaces and KDE Documentation in their native language.

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Marketing: promote KDE

As a marketing volunteer for KDE, you inform people of KDE’s free and open-source alternatives to proprietary software. Your objectives are to increase brand awareness, spread the word about KDE, grow the number of new contributors, increase downloads of KDE software and grow donations.

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User support: help KDE users

As a user support volunteer, your task is to assist KDE users in overcoming problems by either pointing them to the right manual or explaining the steps yourself.

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Participate in Environmental Software Development

As a member of the KDE Eco team, you will

• measure the energy efficiency of KDE software.
• help others meet the criteria for sustainable software.
• reduce e-waste by extending the lifespan of hardware with lightweight free software.

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Who can volunteer to KDE?

We welcome volunteers with any experience level: beginners, intermediate and experienced volunteers. You can volunteer whenever you want. Tasks are managed at

• invent.kde.org(GitLab)
• bugs.kde.org
• phabricator.kde.org

Benefits of contributing to KDE

By contributing to KDE, you:

• provide people with free and open-source software
• solve exciting, fun software development challenges
• give back to KDE for providing you with free software
• enhance KDE software projects
• improve your skills
• meet like-minded people and build lasting friendships
• foster corporate independence
• get work experience
• increase your career prospects
• improve your self-confidence
• create high-quality software
• determine your own work hours
• build a portfolio

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Become a KDE app member

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As a KDE app member, you will enjoy the following benefits:

• Use KDE infrastructure for project hosting
• Gain from the experience of the KDE sysadmins
• Get support from the larger community with development, documentation, translation, testing, bug handling, etc.
• Use opportunities to integrate with a large ecosystem of end-user products
• Interact with teams that have common values, leading to the cross-pollination of ideas and innovations
• Enjoy representation and support by KDE e.V.
  • Participate in Akademy and other KDE events
  • Receive financial and organizational support
  • Secure your trademarks
  • Know that your licensing wishes can be protected via the Fiduciary Licensing Agreement
• Increase your visibility through the reputation of the KDE community and KDE promotion tools such as:
  • publishing project updates at KDE Blogs and employing other KDE promotion channels
  • having your project reachable through a subdomain under kde.org
  • having a #kde-<projectname> IRC channel on the Libera Chat network
  • using KDE as an umbrella brand to associate with the KDE community for communication on web sites and other channels

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Contact KDE
KDE Bugtracker - To report a bug or request a new feature. Invent - To track and discuss work. Matrix, Internet Relay Chat - To start a short, goal-driven discussion. Discuss - To participate in general-purpose discussions. Mailing Lists - To start a long-term, open-ended discussion.

Regional KDE Groups

Asia
KDE China KDE Japan Japan KDE Users' Group (JKUG) – legally structured with corporate and individual members KDE India – operational since 2005; organizes regional events and supports localization KDE Thailand KDE Iran KDE-ir – Persian language community KDE Korea Korean KDE Users Group – active since 1999, focused on translations and community coordination

Europe
KDE Spain (España) KDE Italy KDE Britain (UK) KDE GB (UK) – registered community with its own constitution and charitable status since ~2010 . KDE France KDE Ukraine

Europe and Asia (Transcontinental)
KDE Russia KDE Turkey

South America
KDE Brasil (Brazil) composed of several state-level groups: KDE-MG (Minas Gerais) Live Blue (Bahia) KDE Piauí KDE-RS (Rio Grande do Sul) KDE Lovelace (female contributors group) KDE Argentina KDE-AR (Argentina)

Oceania
KDE Australia

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