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Introduction

KDE hosts a variety of websites, from highly dynamic sites to info, documentationational or promotional sites. Volunteering involves very different aspects ranging from

• writing content
• moderating in the forum
• coordinating announcements
• staying in contact with KDE developers to be aware of latest changes
• administering dynamic sites like forum, wikis
• watching out for spammers in those
• enhancing functionality of the codebase
• styling/designing the look of our sites
• etc etc

The webteam works closely with the promo and the sysadmin team in KDE to make sure KDE has a nice working and nice looking web presence.

Applications

See kde.org/applications page.

Discussion about kde websites

• IRC channel: #kde-www
• Mailinglist: kde-www See http://kde.org/mailinglists/ for details

Getting involved

Coding

There are a variety of options to get involved. KDE websites use either its own framework (Capacity, see below), or one of the well known frameworks around the web. This includes:

• MediaWiki
• Drupal
• phpBB
• GOsa
• WordPress
• Redmine

The needs steadily change, and there is always room for coders who are able to contribute HTML, CSS or PHP.

Note

Capacity is about to become deprecated, as the mainsite gets prepared to be moved to WordPress Drupal

Setting up the website on your computer

In order to do any development you will want to have a local version of the websites to test before committing. The instructions how to set it up are here Local Website Setup.

Working with Wordpress on kde.org

Note: this is not reflecting the current state of kde.org but will be helpful once kde.org has been ported to neverland and wordpress. Wordpress Help

• Discussion for a new site here

Documentation for Capacity

The current default framework for many *.kde.org domains is the /media-framework, aka Capacity. Any documentation about this should go here:

• Setting up a staging vhost
• Capacity HOWTO
• KDE.org/kde.org-menu

Themes

• Neverland

Site Maintainance

• Status of our *.kde.org domains
• International
  • German kde site
  • KDE India website

Meetings

• September 2008 Meeting Outline
• wiki meeting in june 2009
• website meeting at GCDS 2009

The Team

See here

Sub projects

• /KDE Forums - KDE Community Forums
• /Season - KDE Student Programs