The purpose of this page is to help anyone who wants to write about KDE, be it for a blog or a magazine. We will show you how to find information and contact the community with questions.
As most work in KDE is done over the internet, 95% of the information can be found there as well. But much of this information is hidden away in mailinglists, chat channels and blogs. It is hard to extract information out of those in an efficient way, so we will give you a few pointers on how to find information about a topic efficiently.
The first source of information about KDE and the project can be found on the KDE website. What is KDE and general information about KDE are of most interest. Of course, the site of the Free Software Foundation can give you more information on our roots. Don't skip the philosophy section!
Most individual KDE subprojects have their own website under the kde.org umbrella. For example, the educational project can be found on edu.kde.org. Much information can be found on these sites, though it might be outdated. These sites are aggregated on the Projects page.
Much more technical information can be found on the techbase site. KDE gathers all relevant developer information here. Interesting pages can be:
A premier source off information about KDE is the KDE news site, the Dot. It offers search functionality, and we can give a recommendation: The 'Road to KDE 4' series by Troy unrau are an excellent startingpoint on the many new technologies available in KDE 4. Further, just searching for the technology you are looking for, like 'Decibel' will help you find what you are looking for.
For information about the KDE developers, we recommend People behind KDE. It offers interviews with many KDE developers. Further, you can find their blogs mostly on the Planet. Look under subscriptions for individual feeds.
The Commit Digest is a very valuable source of more detailed information, but it can be hard to extract due to the sheer amount of information. A good tip is to quickly read the 'This Week' section at the top to get a quick overview of "what's hot". Further, you can use your browsers search functionallity...
The most detailed information generally available online is to be found in the mailinglist archives of the several KDE projects. Links to these mailinglists can be found on their respective websites (see the Projects site).
An example of the edu mailinglist archives can be found here. Using the search functionallity is often required to find anything usefull in a decent amount of time!
If you want to have the latest information, or verify what you're writing, the best place to ask is on the mailinglist or the IRC channels. You can subscribe to the mailinglist, information about this can be found on the induvidual projects' websites. The same goes for IRC, the channelnames and server information.
If you want to get in contact with individual developers, you can send them an email. Names can often be found on the Project website or on People behind KDE, and google-ing often brings up their email adress (tip: Google the name + "KDE").
If you want to write about KDE, it is often advisable to find a specific source of interest, as the whole of KDE is a lot to write about. Picking one of the technologies behind KDE and writing an article about them is made easy by the huge amount of information available online. The above guide can help you quickly gather the basic information, and it tells you where you can find or ask about the current status.