Promo/People/Join - KDE Community Wiki

Become a Promo team member

Thank you for showing interest in becoming a Promo contributor! We're always looking for new people willing to spread the good word about KDE software.

If you would like to help us, here are some initial tasks and things you can do.

Keep up with Promo discussions

Join our IRC channel #kde-promo on freenode, or come to our Telegram group. It doesn't matter which one you join - they are connected, and every message you post is visible in both. In case you're not familiar with IRC, these instructions can help.

The channel/group is the place where Promo contributors keep in touch. Introduce yourself and feel free to ask anything you'd like to know about KDE.

Join our mailing lists ([email protected] and [email protected]). We announce important news and hold detailed discussions about the future of the KDE Community on those mailing lists.

As you become familiar with different KDE teams and projects, you may want to join their mailing lists. Feel free to browse through all mailing lists and join the ones that interest you. Note: some mailing lists are traffic-heavy, so be prepared for a lot of emails.

Take a look at our workboard. We use Phabricator to manage tasks in the KDE Promo project. If you find something you want to work on, log in and leave a comment on that task. For that you will need a KDE Identity account.

Important: always communicate politely and follow the KDE Code of Conduct in all discussions with other KDE Promo team members. If you're new to the KDE Community, please take some time to get familiar with the CoC so we can all have a pleasant time and collaborate nicely. :)

Follow KDE on social media

This is the easiest way to contribute to KDE Promo - follow our accounts and share our content, or post KDE-related content on your own social media profiles. You can tag us in your posts, too. That way we can see them and share them on our main accounts. When writing posts for social media, make sure to follow our guidelines.

Accounts to follow:

Subscribe to Planet KDE (either via RSS or follow the account on Twitter). Every day there will be some blog posts from the community. Pick a few posts from there and promote them on your own social media accounts. This is good practice for writing social media posts -you can learn how to best utilize hashtags, the importance of images, posting at the right time of day...

FOR BONUS POINTS: is there a local KDE community in your country or city? Follow their social media accounts and share their content. You can also translate their social media posts into other languages and share them on your account. Example: Spanish speakers can follow KDE España.

Find more Promo tasks to work on

You've followed all our social media accounts and you regularly share our content. Not only that, but you've also started posting about the latest KDE efforts on you social media accounts, and you even have a KDE-themed blog (that you've added to the Planet KDE feed). You post in KDE-related threads on reddit, and you share news about KDE in your local online communities, groups, and forums.

But you want to do MORE!

We've prepared some suggestions for things you can do to promote KDE even more actively. Of course, you can always share your own ideas with us in the Promo IRC/Telegram group.

Promote KDE at conferences, hackathons and other live events

If you're interested in organizing your own KDE-related event, or representing us at an existing one, you can find some advice on the Events wiki page. Please get in touch with other Promo members on IRC/Telegram or on mailing lists to coordinate the organization, budget, and other related tasks.

Do you have questions or need help?

We look forward to your contributions to KDE Promo!