I made substantial changes in the KDE Developer Platform documentation over the years. I am effectively its docs maintainer and have the largest number of commits in the repository. This is due in large part because I started contributing to it in 2021, applied as a KDE documentation contractor in late 2023, and started officially working with KDE development onboarding docs in 2024. I’m one of multiple furries contributing to KDE. :3
You can skip reading about my Linux history and go straight to my KDE docs job or to the current state of KDE onboarding docs.
A bit of my history
Back in 2015 I was using Windows 8 Home Single Language when I started searching for some art software to learn to draw. Photoshop is actually very unintuitive and the keyboard shortcuts weren’t working for me; Paint Tool Sai had better shortcuts, but the UI confused me. It’s when I found Krita, which became my favorite software in large part because the basics seemed intuitive and the keyboard shortcuts were so much more comfortable than the alternatives, but also in part because it had a cute mascot drawn by a furry. That’s how I heard about KDE for the first time.
Being a Portuguese and German Language and Literature university student who was trying to learn German, in 2016 I was pissed off by Windows making money with licenses that prohibited you from installing other languages. It’s effectively knowledge gating for greed reasons, so I went looking for the reasonable alternative, Linux. I started with LXDE and XFCE, of course, since I wanted everything to be lightweight (unlike Windows).
I switched to KDE Plasma 5 in 2017.
A year later, in 2018, I started using Reddit. By then I knew one thing or two about Linux, and started providing user support there. Later on I was dissatisfied with the r/KDE sidebar, so I volunteered to fix it as a moderator; more importantly and selfishly, I wanted custom flairs for myself, so I selflessly fixed all custom flairs on new Reddit (I strongly dislike old Reddit to this day). The current sidebar of the new Reddit version of r/KDE still is 90% of what I did back then.
Whenever I think about that one video from Kurzgesagt about selfish altruism, I think of how I improved r/KDE for others if even tangentially because I wanted a flair and nicer links to docs that I used often. My selfish needs were met by improving things for everyone, that’s how it should be. It’s just another way of saying scratch your own itch.
Now being a mod, I started partaking in KDE Promo as well.
In late 2018 I started contributing to the KDE wikis, specifically fixing most of the Get Involved pages. That was around the time I got a job as a translator at an academic papers translation agency / publisher.
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