Contributing to SpreadKDE: A life experience

Press Contact

Definition: The Press Contact team is the official spokesmen for SpreadKDE. Also, the Press Contact team will have as goals to make an extensive list of the available journalists that could be interested with a KDE story. The team will also have the privilege to invite the journalists to the key events related to KDE. Here is the characteristics that we are looking for as a Press Contact member:

• Good socializing skills
• Very good english writing skills
• Professionalism

A join Now! picture a the right bottom would be cool. Has to be thought.

Events Management

The KDE community attends and organises numerous events all over the world every year. These events provide opportunities to show KDE in action to various audiences and to help find new volunteers for KDE.

SpreadKDE tries to help people taking care of the complete process that goes around organizing an event. It starts from finding people that are volunteer to represent KDE at that event to planning out every single details that needs to be thought about.

With SpreadKDE, you get all the tools you need to make sure your event is going to be remembered by all the people that will visit your booth. We help you save time by helping you to structure the planification of the event by letting you use a scratch pad for brainstorming, storing meeting logs, creating tasks that people can apply to, the list goes on.

To help us organize event, you don't need to take full responsability of such event even though you have the possibility to do so. If you feel that you have only time to help a little bit the people that make those events happen, you can apply to a single task and once you have completed it, you are free to either move on to another task or to stop.

We suggest you register to this website if you haven't done it yet and then browse through the project that are currently developed to see if you can help.

Manage SpreadKDE

Definition: The Manage SpreadKDE team is a team devoted to the development of SpreadKDE as a whole. It is the leading team of SpreadKDE as its goal is to make every project grows steadily and in the right direction. The Manage SpreadKDE team's effort are touching a little bit of every teams so whether you are in one of the team inside SpreadKDE, you will most probably have to discuss and share opinions with someone from the Manage SpreadKDE eventually. Where most of the teams can be joined by anybody willing to contribute to SpreadKDE, the managing team will always stay as an "invite-only" team where we try to choose the people involved the most with SpreadKDE to make sure that the leaders are really the one involved with SpreadKDE in a daily basis. Here is the characteristics that we are looking for as a Manage SpreadKDE member:

• Leadership
• Socializing skills
• Steady involvement within the SpreadKDE project

A join Now! picture a the right bottom would be cool. Has to be thought.

Artists

The Artist Team works on every piece of graphics that SpreadKDE would need in order to promote KDE on a widescale. This team can be seen as an extension of every teams within SpreadKDE thus making them a very valuable aspect of SpreadKDE. Most of the work involved with promotion requires efficient artworks that represent the text in a simple yet powerful image. You will also work with the Oxygen team which is the official KDE graphic team as SpreadKDE needs to have the same style as the rest of KDE. Here is the characteristics that we are looking for as an Artist member:

• Good drawing skills
• Creativity
• Good knowledge of SVG and possibly inkscape (can be learnt with the oxygen team)

Web Development

The Web Development team is the one that powers and builds the SpreadKDE website. This is a very important aspect as this website is the main tool for SpreadKDE members to be organized and effective. A lot of hard work has been done already but the content of SpreadKDE is constantly evolving to suit the constantly growing needs of SpreadKDE.

The interesting factor here is that you will be working with everyone from SpreadKDE to get to understand their needs and SpreadKDE's flaw. Your goal will be to fix the flaws and improve SpreadKDE with the rest of the Web Development team.

Here is the characteristics that we are looking for as a Web Development member:

• HTML, CSS, PHP knowledge
• Knowledge of Drupal's API (PHP)
• Creativity

A good thing you could do when you start with developing on Drupal would be to install a Drupal copy on your local system with the latest oxygen theme. From there you could try to understand the way we are building the oxygen theme so you don't slow down the other developers working on dev.spreadkde.org.

Please take a moment to have a look at the IRC channels where you can find support and help about the work you do with on SpreadKDE. Remember that those channels are available through the Freenode network.

• #SpreadKDE
• #kde-promo

Writing

The Writing team has the mission to write any kind of text that could be needed for promoting KDE. The text required to be written can be press articles, description of KDE for a specific event, edition of existing text, revision of text already typed, the list goes on. Here is the characteristics that we are looking for as a Writing member:

• Very good writing skills in english
• Very good grammar skills
• Creativity

Research and Feedback

The Research and Feedback team is the one that tries to get the pulse from the community in order to deliver the best promotional content we can possibly make. This team will be able to build statistics, statement, opinion based on surveys and on feedback from either the KDE community or anybody that has something to say about KDE Here is the characteristics that we are looking for as a Research and Feedback member:

• Creative
• Listening skills
• Marketing skills
• Ease at finding new and unconventional way of getting feedback from people
• Dynamic