Plasma

Getting Involved as a User

If you're as excited about Plasma as the developers are, you're probably wondering how you can get involved and help out. There are several ways you can do this, including:

• quality assurance: as Plasma gets put together, we will need people to run it on their systems to use and abuse. Problems and bugs encountered need to be reported back to the developers. This way the Plasma that ships with KDE 4.0 will be of production quality.
• documentation: as a new application, Plasma will be in need of documentation. This is a task that anyone who can write coherently can undertake.
• promotion: if you'd like to help get the word out about KDE 4.0 and Plasma, there is much in the way of promotional work that can be done.
• appreciation: it's amazing how far an encouraging word can go to keeping the spirits of the developers up when faced with particularly nasty bugs and great challenges. Dropping a note to the development email list would be a great way to show your support and appreciation. Beer, pizza, gadgets and other developer fuel are also welcome. ;)

Unfortunately, at this point in development it's a bit early for any of the above to start with earnest, save for perhaps the appreciation. But certainly check back in the months to come!