"Getting new people involved is a key aim for any free software project. For projects like KDE, which are in a sense the face of free software for many non-technical users, getting widespread involvement from a representative sample of users can be difficult. To address this, and to develop a whole new community, the KDE Project today officially launched the Quality Teams Project, allowing participation from programmers and newbies alike. This is a more radical idea than it might appear.
"Understood merely as an initiative to attract developers to KDE and users to mailing lists, the Quality Teams Project would seem like a potentially worthwhile venture in the Open Source tradition..."
