1y ago

You know how a lot of people say they would love to contribute to Free Software but can't code? No more! Become a KDE Booth Buddy and help out at ScaLE!

This is @druonysus and he needs help managing the KDE booth at Scale 21x.

https://floss.social/@druonysus@mstdn.io/111887967308318720

If you are located in or visiting the Los Angeles area on the days of the event, DM Drew so you can just turn up and help!

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

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You don’t need to code to help FOSS! Things a non-coder can do:
Report bugs.
Find vague bug reports and try to reproduce the issue in as few steps as possible.
Update the documentation such as user manuals or help screens.
- Translating can also be a huge help and often times there are very intuitive web interfaces for this
  
  Weblate is great, you can translate strings of text during 5 minute breaks
  
  Hey, can you link a couple of these projects with web interface translation methods, or something similar and convenient? Having used a bunch of open software through centralized platforms or local files, I mostly encounter either inline, manual file change as translation option or adjacent strings files, but sadly no visualization or even context of where a line to be translated is used, etc.
  Asking because I'm not really one to go through personal connections to devs or taking active parts in community discords to submit translations in text file formats. I'd like to see these other ones with semi-anonymously submitting translations for my select languages, and a couple examples for for convenience would help a lot for me to seek or ask for such things in the future.
- So I'm what one might call a basic user. Mainly browser based tasks. I can use the terminal, but I don't have really much of anything memorized. Imagine giving a desktop running Fedora to your great aunt, not that one, the other one, who's constantly smoking and sexually harasses the busboys when they come to clean away the ashtrays. That one. That's my level of Linux proficiency.
  Are any of these things I might be able to do? I would genuinely love to help, but I use FOSS for philosophical reasons, not because I understand the techy stuff. If it's doable at my level (or an achievable level), I'm eager.
  
  So why are you sexually harassing busboys?
  
  Read this, see if there is anything that you would like to help with.

I just switched to KDE after 10 years of GNOME. I love the power-user, windowsy feel it has

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social @druonysus ooh being a booth buddy is so nice! (did it several times at fosdem, and twice at non-software-focused conferences)

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social @druonysus
Been working with Drew lately, he's an absolute joy and you should volunteer with him!

@kde @druonysus @kde L.A. is a bit far for me, but I do hope he get lot of helpers.
And while I’m at it, thanks to all the good people at #KDE for their excellent work on Plasma and all their apps.
(I just wish Kmail wasn’t that far embedded into the desktop env’, so I could uninstall it without causing problem in my system, since I don’t use it. But that’s just me nitpicking, and might even be more a distro problem than a Plasma/KDE one.)
- AFAIK Plasma does not need KMail or even Kontact to work 100%. Where are you getting that from?
  
  @Bro666 My second to last install of Fedora which broke when I uninstalled some Kmail adjacent package. (Kcontacts among others.)
  But you’re right, uninstalling Kmail itself doesn’t break Plasma.
- While KMail isn't necessary at all to use KDE (even Neon uses Thunderbird as its default email app) I think I know what you're getting at. The issue isn't KMail itself. Installing KMail will also install Kontact, which runs with Akonadi server on the back end, and Akonadi is the culprit for it being so "far embedded" into Plasma and on some setups can use up just as much RAM as Plasma itself on its own. It's my main complaint about KMail/Kontact/Akonadi, if they could get the RAM usage under control (you seriously don't need to use almost a freaking GB of RAM just to keep track of email, contacts and a calendar, Thunderbird does it using less than half the memory), it would be a really nice system for one bundled with a DE.
  
  Wrong. You can remove Akonadi no problem and it will not affect Plasma's workings. Plasma does not depend on any PIM component to be fully functional.
- II had to specifically download kmail to use it. Your packages are poorly made.
  
  Harsh, but true. There is no reason why any Kontact (KMail, KOrganiser, Akonadi, etc.) component should be required by Plasma. These things are independent. Sounds like someone has made a mistake somewhere with the dependencies on your distro.

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social #ComeOnYouBlues

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