KDE Is Hoping To Recruit More Developers This Season

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Is Hoping To Recruit More Developers This Season

While this year's Google Summer of Code has long passed, the KDE development community is now once again starting the Season of KDE 2015 as an initiative to get new developers involved with KDE projects...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Season-2015-Starts

[kaprikawn]

I really want to contribute to an open-source project, not necessarily KDE, any really. But I lack the skills, I'm willing to learn though. I do a lot of scripting in my job, mainly perl and plsql, so I'm not starting from scratch. What's the best thing to learn in order to get involved? Is it just a case of learning something like C or C++ then finding a project?

[geearf]

I'd say it's the opposite, find a project that you want to work on and then learn what you need.

[Awesomeness]

I really want to contribute to an open-source project, not necessarily KDE, any really. But I lack the skills, I'm willing to learn though. I do a lot of scripting in my job, mainly perl and plsql, so I'm not starting from scratch. What's the best thing to learn in order to get involved? Is it just a case of learning something like C or C++ then finding a project?

Scripting is the perfect skill to get into packaging.