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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 the working area for community members and contributors. It contains information about collaboration on projects and goals. To start, read Welcome to KDE.

This wiki contains guides for getting involved with the community, making a living contributing to KDE, setting up a development environment for building KDE software, reporting bugs, translating software, and getting in touch with different KDE projects and teams.

If you're interested in how to use KDE Frameworks and libraries in your own software, take a peek at the KDE Developer Platform for guides and tutorials.

Note

Before editing pages in this wiki, look at Help:Contribute#Organisation to see where to add content.

Featured Pages

Current Goals — KDE's goals to focus on as a community.
Make a living contributing to KDE — How to make a living contributing to KDE.
GSoC, GCi, SoK and OPfW — Student mentoring programs to help developers by contributing to KDE.
User manual for invent.kde.org — User manual for invent.kde.org.
Events KDE will be attending — KDE's presence in events and conferences.
KDE Frameworks — Coordinating the KDE Frameworks team.

Community Information Hub

Get started with learning and contributing to KDE. Review the links below and let us know how we can help!

Get Involved

New to KDE? Start here!

Policies

Policies covering development of KDE software. Related: Guidelines and How-tos

Schedules

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

Events

Akademy Conference, 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 is not project-specific.

Keynotes and Presentations

Keynotes and presentations by the KDE community.

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.
Leadership — Moderation within the KDE community.
Mentoring — Programs for introducing new contributors to KDE.
- Student Programs Administration — 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.

Things to deal with:

KDE.org Websites
- KDE Forums - Information about discuss.kde.org for developers and contributors
- KDE Student Programs - Functional guide of season.kde.org for students, mentors, and admins
KDE — Various documentation affecting the entire community

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
User Support
Platform teams
- Android
- FreeBSD
- Kubuntu
- Mac
- KDE Mobile
- Solaris
- Windows
- Yocto
Visual Design Group

Projects

These are pages for specific projects. These can be pieces or collections of software, specific websites, or other relatively self-contained areas of work.

Alkimia
Baloo — Metadata and search
Bodega — Content publishing and delivery system
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
Gwenview
ISOImageWriter
KDE Utils
KGet
KIO GDrive
Kopete
Multimedia
- Amarok
- Juk
- Kdenlive — Video Editing for Everyone
- K3b
- Phonon
- Elisa
LatteDock
Rekonq
Solid — KDE hardware teams
Sonnet — Spell checking extraordinaire
Okular — KDE PDF reader
Playground — Projects that are not ready but still in discussion
- MediaPlayer
KDE Core — Core modules of KDE, including kdelibs
KDE Edu
KDE Frameworks 5
KDE Games
KDE PIM
KDE Science
KDevelop
KSecretService
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.