You may have noticed the recent announcement and accompanying article about Quality Teams. Since then, four Quality Teams have begun to form, and many people new to KDE have offered their help on the kde-quality mailing list. It's important that KDE doesn't lose all these keen new people, and that developers do their bit to help the teams develop so you can benefit from all the help they will provide.

So far, there are Quality Teams for KDE Edu, KDE Multimedia, KOffice and KDE PIM. Their progress varies, but in the case of both the KDE Multimedia and KDE PIM teams, they are ready to start working on improving documentation, managing bugs and wishlist items, testing code, discussing usability issues and promoting your work to the wider world.

Hopefully in the coming weeks, Quality Team members will start popping up on your mailing lists, waiting to participate in your work. Embrace them, have a quick read of the Quality Team web pages, check the status of their wiki page (links above) and then start giving them tasks to do.

If everybody can find a way to make the Quality Team project useful for them, KDE will be the luckiest project in the Free Software community, with both new code monkeys learning the ropes, and whole new kinds of contributors improving the quality and image of the project. Recently there have been many blog entries on usability worries, branding and the like. I think Quality Teams are central to the answer, so let's make them work :)