One important and fun part of working on KDE is the community of other developers who you work with. The people you will work with most often as a documentation writer are the documentation team, the quality team (if you're a new contributor) and the maintainer of the application that you're working on.

The documentation team is your main resource for help with doc writing and a central point of contact to ensure that everyone's work is co-ordinated. The main ways to contact the documentation team are via the (kde-doc-english AT kde.org) mailing list and on IRC in the #kde-docs channel on the server irc.libera.chat. If you plan to work on a particular application, please tell us, so that we can ensure that no-one else is working on it simultaneously, so that effort would be duplicated. Also, feel free to contact us with any problems or questions you might have about writing documentation. You do not need to feel like you're working entirely on your own – there are plenty of people who are able to help.

Working with programmers is a little less formal. The usual reason to contact a programmer is to ask about a feature or behavior of an application that you're documenting. To find the appropriate person to contact for a particular application, look in the Help → About KApp menu item for the maintainer. If you can not find a maintainer, ask on (kde-doc-english AT kde.org) or (kde-devel AT kde.org). If asking on the kde-devel list, mention that you're writing the documentation for that application – it helps to identify you to those reading a busy list. In general, programmers and other developers are happy to help, and willing to work with you, so do not feel afraid of asking them for information, and building up a working relationship.