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Welcome to the KDE Community Wiki! KDE is a world-wide community of software engineers, artists, writers, translators, and creators who are committed to the development and distribution of Free Software. If that sounds like you, you're in the right place!

This is a repository of information for community members and contributors about collaboration on projects and goals. Actual work takes place on https://invent.kde.org.

Community Information Hub

Get started learning about and contributing to KDE with some basic information found at these links:

Welcome to KDE

Basic information about KDE.

Current Goals

KDE's goals to focus on as a community

Get Involved

Hub for learning how to contribute. Here you can find resources about software development, translation, visual design, management, bug triaging, and more.

Policies

Policies concerning development of KDE software and community standards in general. Related: Guidelines and How-tos

Schedules

Upcoming freezes and release dates for KDE's main products.

Events

Information about Akademy, Conferences, Sprints, and other KDE events.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure provided for KDE projects such as source control and systems for translators.

Guidelines and How-tos

Guidelines for creating good software and helpful information for contributors that isn't project-specific.

Keynotes and Presentations

Keynotes and presentations given by the KDE community.

Make a living contributing to KDE

How to make a living contributing to KDE.

Community Management and Coordination

These teams help keep the KDE community running smoothly by providing support, administration, and arbitration:

Community Working Group

Helping community members work together

KDE e.V.

Financial and legal administration.

Incubator

Process for adding existing projects to the KDE family.

Mentoring

Programs for introducing new contributors to KDE. Related: Administration of the mentoring programs

The KDE Network

Representatives of the community who promote KDE globally.

Promo

Getting the word out about KDE.

Sysadmin

Building and maintaining KDE infrastructure.

Cross-Project Teams

These teams work on areas common across lots of projects, sharing their expertise and working on tasks that individual projects often don't have the resources to manage on their own.

• Accessibility
• Bug Triaging
• Documentation
• Gardening
• Localization
• Research
• Platform teams
  • Android
  • FreeBSD
  • Kubuntu
  • Mac
  • KDE Mobile
  • Solaris
  • Windows
  • Yocto
• Visual Design Group

Projects

These are pages for specific KDE projects. Not every project or app has a page here; these are simply the ones that contributors found useful for information storage purposes. For a full list of KDE apps, see https://kde.org/apps.

• Alkimia
• Baloo — Metadata and search
• Commit Digest
• Common Task Videos
• Calligra — Office and creative suite
  • Karbon — Vector-based drawing application
  • Kexi — Database creation for everyone: Developer notebook
    • KDb — A database connectivity and creation framework for various database vendors
    • KProperty — A property editing framework with editor widget similar to what is known from Qt Designer
    • KReport — A framework for the creation and generation of reports in multiple formats
• digiKam
• Dolphin
• ISOImageWriter
• KDE Utils
• KGet
• KIO GDrive
• Kopete
• Multimedia
  • Amarok
  • Juk
  • Kdenlive — Video Editing for Everyone
  • K3b
  • Phonon
• LatteDock
• Rekonq
• Solid — KDE hardware teams
• Playground — Projects that are not ready but still in discussion
  • MediaPlayer
• KDE Edu
• KDE Frameworks 5
• KDE Games
• KDE PIM
• KDE Science
• KDevelop
• Krita — Painting for Digital Artists
• KWin
• Necessitas
• Neon
• Ocs-server
• Plasma Project Team Coordination
  • Plasma Netbook Reference Platform
• Real-Time Communication and Collaboration (Telepathy)
• RKWard GUI for R
• Zanshin
• Akademy Tools — Digital Tooling for Planning and Organizing the KDE Annual World Summit

Subcommunities

These are groups that come together based on shared experiences rather than because they are working on the same thing.

• Country teams:
  • KDE in Australia
  • KDE in Argentina
  • KDE in Brazil
  • KDE in Britain
  • KDE in France
  • KDE in India
  • KDE in Russia
• KDE Women
• KDE LGBT