<chapter id="contact-the-kde-team">
<chapterinfo><date>2002-01-18</date> <releaseinfo>3.00.00</releaseinfo> </chapterinfo>
<title>Contact the &kde; team</title>
<anchor id="contact"/>

<sect1 id="contact-mailinglists">
<title>Mailing lists</title>

<para>&kde; has several mailing lists up. See below for some of the most useful. Older articles can be found in the <ulink url="http://lists.kde.org">mailing list archive</ulink>.</para>

<variablelist>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde">kde</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>For general discussion, users helping each other.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-announce">kde-announce</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>Announcements of new &kde; applications</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel">kde-devel</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>For developers.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-artists">kde-artists</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>Creating icons and other artwork</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-doc-english">kde-doc-english</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>For people interested in writing documentation for &kde;.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/tde-i18n-doc">tde-i18n-doc</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>Internationalisation and documentation issues</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://i18n.kde.org/teams/">http://i18n.kde.org/teams/</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>For localised information, which may include user email lists and websites, check the translation teams page at the above &URL;.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</sect1>

<sect1 id="contact-developers">
<title>Contacting the &kde; developers</title>

<para>On this page, you can find links to &kde; related web sites.</para>

<para>The K Desktop Environment is developed by a large group of people around the world. Our main communication channel is the Internet. For general questions, you will be best served by asking on the mailing lists mentioned in the <link linkend="contact-mailinglists">previous section</link>, and contact addresses for individual developers can be found in the documentation of their individual application.</para>

<para>Please visit our <ulink url="http://www.kde.org/contact/representatives.php">Official Representatives</ulink> page for official enquiries regarding &kde; (&eg; interviews).</para>

<para>More information about &kde; is available at &kde-http;.</para>

<para><anchor id="links"/>Other &kde; websites include:</para>

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<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://www.kde.org">www.kde.org</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>&kde;'s official website</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://developer.kde.org">developer.kde.org</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>The &kde; developers centre</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://webcvs.kde.org">webcvs.kde.org</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>A web interface to the &kde; CVS repository</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://i18n.kde.org">i18n.kde.org</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>&kde;'s internationalisation and documentation server</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="ftp://ftp.kde.org">ftp.kde.org</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>The main &kde; &FTP; server. Please have a look at the link below to find a mirror site in your geographic region.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink
url="http://www.kde.org/mirrors">www.kde.org/mirrors</ulink></term> 
<listitem><para>&kde; web and &FTP; mirror sites</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://www.kde-apps.org">www.kde-apps.org</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>A directory of &kde; applications.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><ulink url="http://www.kde-look.org">www.kde-look.org</ulink></term>
<listitem><para>&kde; themes, icons, and other items to change the look of your desktop.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</sect1>
</chapter>

