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+author: einar
+comments: true
+date: 2009-09-20 18:46:22+00:00
+layout: post
+slug: introducing-kdialogue
+title: Introducing KDialogue
+wordpress_id: 679
+categories:
+- KDE
+- Linux
+tags:
+- community
+- KDE
+- KDialogue
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+In line with the project's committment to openness, the KDE developers and contributors are not a secretive bunch. In fact, the ["People Behind KDE"](http://behindkde.org/) initiative has provided the community with interviews of quite a number of the developers. And by reading those interviews, haven't you ever felt the need of asking a specific question, outside from those prepared by the interviewer? For example, more details about what the specific developer is doing, or what his/her plans are for the next version of KDE.
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+So far, all that was just a passing thought in someone's mind. Not anymore... because today I'd like to introduce the newest initiative by the KDE Community Forums, in cooperation with other members of the KDE community: **KDialogue!**
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+![](http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/oxygearhead.png)
+
+(image courtesy of forum staff member Hans)
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+_How does it work?_
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+At fixed intervals, a KDE contributor will be asked to participate in a dialogue. The community will be able to propose questions in a special forum set up at the KDE Community Forums, and people can vote on questions they would like to see answered (in a similar vein, although simplified, to the KDE Brainstorm). It means that _you_, the community members, choose the questions. The voting will stay opened into seven days before the dialogue, and at that point that the top-voted questions will be emailed to the contributor. The answers will be then published on the [behindkde.org](http://behindkde.org/) web page.  
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+The first KDialogue will be announced soon. Take the chance to **be part** of the community!