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To maintain KDE's community and projects healthy and growing into the future we need to ensure that we continuously attract new contributors and get more people involved. The aim of this initiative is to find ways to help new contributors not only to make their first contributions, but also feel comfortable with the community and its procedures, stay engaged for longer periods, connect with fellow contributors and work their way into becoming dedicated contributors to the projects of their interest.
In order to maintain KDE's community and its projects healthy and growing in the future, we need to ensure that we continuously attract new contributors and get more people involved. The aim of this initiative is to find ways to help new contributors to not only make their first contributions, but also feel comfortable with the community and its procedures, stay engaged for longer periods, connect with fellow contributors and work their way into becoming dedicated contributors to the projects of their interest.


Several projects are already making steps towards this goal. KDEConnect and Elisa developers are identifying junior jobs that newcomers can take up as their first contributions. The Plasma Mobile team has gone even further, as it has prepared an interactive guide on getting involved and a comprehensive tutorial on setting up a development environment.
Several projects are already making steps towards this goal. KDEConnect and Elisa developers are identifying junior jobs that newcomers can take up as their first contributions. The Plasma Mobile team has gone even further, as they have prepared [https://docs.plasma-mobile.org/index.html an interactive guide on getting involved] and a comprehensive tutorial on setting up a development environment that can be found both [https://docs.plasma-mobile.org/DevGuide.html here] and [https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Mobile/DevGuide here].


If you are attending Akademy 2018, KDE's annual community event, make sure to watch the related talk.
If you are attending Akademy 2018, KDE's annual community event, make sure to watch the related talk.


More details about the goal: https://phabricator.kde.org/T7116
More details about this goal: https://phabricator.kde.org/T7116

Latest revision as of 03:59, 4 March 2019

In order to maintain KDE's community and its projects healthy and growing in the future, we need to ensure that we continuously attract new contributors and get more people involved. The aim of this initiative is to find ways to help new contributors to not only make their first contributions, but also feel comfortable with the community and its procedures, stay engaged for longer periods, connect with fellow contributors and work their way into becoming dedicated contributors to the projects of their interest.

Several projects are already making steps towards this goal. KDEConnect and Elisa developers are identifying junior jobs that newcomers can take up as their first contributions. The Plasma Mobile team has gone even further, as they have prepared an interactive guide on getting involved and a comprehensive tutorial on setting up a development environment that can be found both here and here.

If you are attending Akademy 2018, KDE's annual community event, make sure to watch the related talk.

More details about this goal: https://phabricator.kde.org/T7116