An Introduction to KDE Edu apps and contribution.

1. KDE Education Suite
Rishab Arora

2. whoami
● Student
● KDE Developer
● Contributor to KStars
● GSOC 2012 student

3. We are KDE!

4. About KDE
● International team
● Very strong and active community
● Open Atmosphere
● A large number of members
● Focused
● Has a very active Indian community (KDE-
In)

5. KDE SC
● KDE Software Compilation
● Synced Software Update Cycle
● Recently released KDE SC 4.10
● Consists of packages which consist of
multiple applications and/or libraries

6. Packages
KDE-Libs
KDE-Base
KDE-Plasma-Addons
KDE-Network
KDE-Pim
KDE-Graphics
KDE-Multimedia
Phonon
KDE-Accessibility
KDE-Utilities
KDE-Edu
KDE-Games
KDE-Toys
KDE-Artwork
KDE-Admin
KDE-SDK
KDE-Bindings

7. About KDEdu
● Started in 2001 by Anne-Marie Mahfouf
● Free Educational Software (GPL license)
within the KDE environment
● Aimed to schools, to students and to parents
at home as well as to adults
● Used all over the world
● From Brazilian educators to a remote West
Bengal village

8. Applications
● KLettres
● Kig
● KBruch
● Cantor
● Marble
● KmPlot
● Kanagram
● Blinken
● KWordQuiz
● Kiten
● KHangMan
● Parley
● KTouch
● KStars
● KTurtle
● Step
● Rocs
● Kalzium
● KAlgebra
● KGeography

9. KLettres

10. Kig

11. Blinken

12. KBruch

13. KGeography

14. KHangman

15. KmPlot

16. Kiten

17. Kalzium

18. KAlgebra

19. Rocs

20. KTurtle

21. Pairs

22. Parley

23. KStars

24. Step

25. Contribute!
● Spread the word!
● Localization
● Find bugs
● Fix bugs!
● New features

26. How to contribute
● Mentored Methods:
○ GSoC
○ SoK
○ GCI
● Regular way
○ Send patches
○ Translations
○ Add features

27. Choose the project
● Large number of projects
● Multimedia programs to Scientific Utilities
● Varied codebase sizes

28. Get the code!
● techbase.kde.org
● Most of the code repos use Git
● Build instructions available

29. Talk to us!
● IRC
○ #kde-devel
○ #kde-edu
○ #kde-in
○ Project specific channels. eg. #kde-kstars
● Mailing Lists
○ Project mailing lists

30. Contribute
● Use it!
● File bugs
● Translations
● Manuals
● Graphics
● Code
● Promotion

31. Perks
● Meet awesome people
● Feels good!
● Make a mark
● Prove + Improve
● Show off your skills
● Get appreciated for your work

32. Questions?
You just survived an embarrassingly bad talk by
Rishab Arora
spacetime on freenode
(#kde-in or #kde-edu)
@spacetime29 on twitter
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