Dnia sobota, 22 lutego 2020 21:32:47 CET Lydia Pintscher pisze: > Hi everyone, > > last year we were looking for someone to help us with project > coordination tasks. Today I'm happy to let you know that we have found > a great person. I'd like to introduce you to Adam Szopa who will be > working with us from now on. I'll let him say more about himself. > > Adam's focus will be on supporting the goals - especially in the first > months. He'll help with setting up regular calls, reporting progress, > goals sprints organisation as well as any other organisational things > the goals keepers need support with to make sure the goals make good > progress. After that Adam will also have some time to help with other > project coordination tasks beyond the goals. If your team would like > to take advantage of that please reach out to me and Adam. > > Please give him a warm welcome. > > > Cheers > Lydia
Hello KDE community! Thank you Lydia for the introduction. I'll take a few moments to talk about who I am, and how I want to help KDE become the organization it deserves to be. I've worked for several years as a software developer for various companies, but in the last few years I've found that I can bring even more value if I take on a more management focused role. And so, my programming time has turned into occasional Kata exercise in Rust, and my job is helping developers however I can in achieving their goals, and helping management be more organized and informed. My experience with KDE started when I found early screenshots of the new upcoming Plasma 5 desktop. Around that time I was looking to move my main PC from a different ecosystem, and something with that new look really resonated with me. Let me tell you, the early "Kubuntu Plasma 5.0 alpha preview" system was, wild, unstable but very exciting! I'm very glad I stuck with it, and witnessed the evolution into the desktop it is today. Eventually I moved to KDE Neon, and that's where I'm at now. KDE is an amazing community. No matter if you're an active contributor, a bug submitter or just a user of the software, you help create a better digital environment for thousands of people, an environment that is aligned with the KDE vision (https://community.kde.org/KDE/Vision). And while the community itself is growing, and the software reaches new and new people every day, the hurdles of maintaining the organization part of it all grow as well. And this is were I come in. As Lydia mentioned I will first focus on making sure there is nothing stopping us from reaching our goals (https://kde.org/ goals), and then move to other areas where my coordination assistance can help. Remember, there is no shame in asking for help. The same way you'd ask the community for technical assistance with the software, you can ask me for coordination help. I'm reachable by: email: [email protected] matrix: @adam:kde.org I'm looking forward to hearing from you. - Adam
