Working on Free Software for a Living: KDE and LibreOffice
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A month as KDE Software Platform Engineer
Precisely one month ago I joined KDE e.V., the non-profit organization behind KDE, as Software Platform Engineer. This is part of three positions in KDE's "Make a living" initiative.
The exact scope of this position is a bit vague. I like to describe it as "Taking care of everything needed so that people can build and enjoy awesome software". A large part of that is taking care of foundational libraries such as Qt and KDE Frameworks, but it can be really anything that helps people do awesome things. This is pretty much what I've been doing as a volunteer for the last couple of years anyway.
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Outreachy and LibreOffice installer improvements: Rachael Odetayo
Last week, we talked to Ximena Alcaman who's working on LibreOffice installer improvements as part of the Outreachy programme. Outreachy provides internships to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technical industry where they are living.