A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.

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RULES

• No Spam, and please link to the source instead of blogs that link to the source. Blogs are fine as long as they have original content or add significant content to news or issue.
• This is a community Lemmy instance so be respectful of other users.
• No trolling and no shitposting. Low quality posts and comments will be removed without warning. Repeat offenders will be banned.
• Prefer reporting bugs to https://bugs.kde.org, as KDE developers do not scan lemmy for bug reports.
• Avoid comparing various desktop environments, distros, and/or other FLOSS projects. This instance is for discussing the KDE community and the software it produces, and not about pointless flamewars between open source projects.
• In case of doubt, consult KDE’s Code of conduct. Violations of the CoC will result in banning.

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KDE is a commmunity creating free and open source software for desktop and portable computing.

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KDE Websites

• KDE Homepage
• KDE News
• KDE Blogs
• KDE Discuss (Forum/Discourse)
• KDE Wikis
• KDE Bug tracker and reporter

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Donate to KDE

• Become an official Supporting Member

• Help fund KDE projects with a one-off donation

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Want to contribute to KDE?

For starters:

• The best way to start contributing is to contact the community over Matrix and IRC

• At first sight, it might seem a bit hard to interact in those groups. That’s okay! Join them first, see how things are done, mention your interest and where you’d like to work with. We may even find a mentor for you!

• The KDE Community develops and distributes open source software. As such, we follow a sort of do-ocracy wherein tasks are done and assigned by contributors themselves. Feel free to pick an area and just start contributing immediately! We’re always here to help you along the way. A good way to contribute with code for the first time is to fix an unfixed bug that afflicts you or assign yourself to junior jobs and start working on them.

• It’s always nice to collaborate optimally with others in any given setting, but this is especially important for community projects like those following the open source model, so remember to read the KDE Code of Conduct.

Here are a few links to help you in your first contributions to KDE:

• Get Involved

• Your first commit

• Write code

• Report issues

• Triage bug reports

• Translate software and documentation

• Design applications and icons

• Write documentation

• Manage websites and backends

• Support other users

• Promote KDE

• Make KDE software more accessible

• Assist with management and organization

• Update the wikis

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Get started learning QML:

• The new KDE intro to QML

• The original Plasma Developer Guide

• Test QML code live

• Comprehensive community book on QML

• The official KDAB YouTube course on QML

• The official Qt documentation on QML

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Get started learning C++:

• The new KDE intro to C++

• An app to more easily create apps with a template, KAppTemplate

• The free edX course by New York University

• The freemium Codecademy course

• Comprehensive wikibook for C++

• The Wikiversity C++ course

• The LearnCPP tutorial website

• The CPlusPlus tutorial website

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