From kde-women Wed Oct 15 18:45:05 2003 From: "Mahfouf Anne-Marie" Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:45:05 +0000 To: kde-women Subject: [Kde-women] Many many ideas! Would you like to help? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-women&m=106624355003640 Hi, Here are some ideas for the women.kde-org website and our project in general. There were a lot of discussions about the project and the tasks we try to fullfill. These mail should give a general idea about, what we have in mind :) This is just a proposal, feel free to flame/add/suppress/critisize/improve ;-) A very big idea is to have a database full of tasks, that need to be done, and to get women and the whole community to do stuff. We, the women, would provide the tools (webpages, forms, HowTos...) and would be a sort of "motor" for all these points. The database should use mysql and this can be used for the website. So, we can use forms for enter new tasks and for getting assigned to a task. There will be a lot of tasks, that are to do, and they aren't only for developers. You should find there a lot of tasks that can be done without knowing a programming language and that can be done from everyone who wants to start to contribute or is contributing already. An example for such tasks can be KHangMan, which would need some improvement at the icons or reviewing a list of words, that needs some language work. That is only one example and there can be found easily a lot of more tasks like this. There will be a database of applications that need short explanations for the whatsthis help. About that aseigo wrote a tutorial that really helps to get started with writing whatsthis and can be found at http://urbanlizard.com/~aseigo/whatsthis_tutorial/ . But there isn't only the work to write new whatsthis, also to find out which applications need whatsthis and make a list of them. (that can be shared between us) This would be separated in 2 categories: - the apps that needs the whatsthis help and use QtDesigner (easy) - the apps that needs the whatsthishelp and don't use QtDesigner (less easy) Therfore there has to be a form as well to get assigned to an application to work on. Problem: as we are in feature freeze, time will be limited to add strings until the i18n freeze. Do we have time to get this in place before this freeze? If not, see what branch to work on for 3.3. A list of classes that don't have API doc can be generated and how to write this doc (that's more for developers) A tutorial about how to translate is in progress and hopefully we can start soon with translating our website. We are just waiting for the translation file and every translator is welcome. List the KDE apps that do not have a User Guide i.e. a proper doc and try to get people to write docs or part of a doc. Lauri: what do you think about that? Would that interfere with your team work? It's just an idea as I noticed new features/apps in 3.2 have no doc yet. But I don't want to mess with other people work. If it's not such a good idea, we'll drop it. We can just add a contact for people who would like to help with that instead. List some small bugs in KDE apps. For example, one could use the KControl Center and see if all the buttons are consistent (I noticed for example that some Apply are enabled even if any change was made, this is an error). See if all keyboard shortcuts are consistent. See if each app can be used via the keyboard without the mouse (ask in accessibility about that, I saw a mail on that and it seems to me very important yet developers usually concentrate on big features, not on small stuff) See how to fix that. Are the menus consistent (for example in Games or in Edu) Make a list of wanted apps. I often meet new developers and they don't know what to code. In the Edutainment area, there can be things to be done: an app to make kids learn the time, a simple paint program for very young kids with stamps, .... I am sure that you have many ideas! I believe that if we can succeed in partially solve all those small problems, we'll make KDE really better for the end user. We, KDE-Women, can provide the website and maintainance of all that, plus being involved as well. We'll also lead the translation of KDE websites as we'll be the first one to use i18n. Now, don't we rock? Those are just some ideas of what could be done in KDE by us. If we agree on some points, we can then share ideas on how to do it. Best regards, annma & frauke _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile _______________________________________________ kde-women mailing list kde-women@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-women