KDE COMMUNITY REPORT 3RD QUARTER, 2010 | ISSUE 15 WELCOME MESSAGE

The third quarter of 2010 started these students attended . platform. Nokia delivered a new off with Akademy in bright and We see ongoing growth in the 4.7 with Qt Quick support, sunny Tampere, Finland. For nine number of contributors to the KDE released version 2.3.2 days, KDE contributors from community. with improved support for around the world worked together upcoming events and KDE 4.5, at the University of Tampere and You too can join the game! See the comprising the KDE platform, the Demola labs to share, mingle, report by Jenny Yeung in this Plasma desktop and KDE present, discuss, hack, and have a quarterly, or come to the next applications, did two releases. good time as a community. You Akademy which will be part of the will find a report on Akademy by Berlin Desktop Summit. In the We are really happy that there is Jos Poortvliet later in this KDE summer of 2011, Akademy and so much technical momentum quarterly. GUADEC will once again be part of powered by the KDE community, a Desktop Summit at Humboldt and there is more to come. Stay Another big event in the summer University in Berlin, Germany. tuned. for KDE was the Google Summer of Code. KDE mentored a record This quarter saw the release of The KDE e.V. Board number this year, with more than several new versions of important 45 students successfully technologies for KDE and completing their projects. Many of applications based on the KDE

CONTENTS Open Software, Open Design, Open Culture 2 Open Source is more than just software. The Marketing Working Group 3 The Marketing Working group is deeply involved in KDE promotion. This article introduces the new leadership and explains how they can help your project. Join the Game, Make a Change 4 Since launching in June, "Join the Game" has attracted world-wide interest. Come read why it is a win-win for both members and KDE. Community Activities and Events 5 During the last quarter, KDE members gathered to develop and promote KDE at a variety of conferences, tradeshows, and community events. New KDE e.V. Members 8 The newest members of KDE e.V. Finances 9 Sys Admin Report 9 OPEN SOFTWARE, OPEN DESIGN, OPEN CULTURE

Open source is more than just software. In addition to programmers, KDE is home to a vibrant community of artists, designers, musicians, hobbyists, tinkerers, and idealists. These people generously share their ideas, art, and work with others in the community. The images and designs in this edition of the newsletter were created by KDE users and shared with the community.

Frozen Leaf, Renatto Zanotti, Italy (KDE Look)

Cromp Cold, James Waples, United Kingdom (KDE Look) Climbing, Jao Seixas, Brazil (KDE Look)

Drop, Kanwar Plaha, Australia (KDE Look) The Long Spine, Nikolay D., Russian Federation (KDE Look) THE MARKETING WORKING GROUP

At this year's Akademy, new they could report next year on to. One of the MWG's main goals Marketing Working Group (MWG) progress and whether the working is to encourage wider participation members were elected during the group was needed. in promotion activities by all of the KDE e.V.'s General Assembly. The KDE community. Most MWG was created following a The new members of the MWG are importantly, the MWG will establish meeting at Akademy 2005, in Justin Kirby (USA), Pradeepto easy ways for developers to which it was decided that it would Battacharya (India), Sandro leverage its services to help them be beneficial to have a group that Andrade (Brazil) and Stuart Jarvis spread the word about their could act as a main marketing (UK). The wide geographical software. As a first , contact within KDE and to help spread of its members will allow application teams are encouraged coordinate the overall direction the MWG to bring greater to submit stories to KDE.News to and strategy of KDE's marketing coordination to efforts in North reach the largest possible efforts. and South America, Europe, India audience when they have a new and beyond. All have been very release, rather than only However, the MWG had become active in KDE Promotion in their announcing it on their personal largely inactive in recent months, respective regions and met several blogs. The marketing task list is with little traffic on its mailing list. times at Akademy to discuss future being cleaned up on the wiki This was perhaps because the plans. (http://community.kde.org/Promo/ original aims of the MWG charter Get_Involved/Jobs). You are invited had largely been met: a structured The new members have since to add your own ideas, either for release promotion process has concluded that the MWG should be things you would like to do or been defined and followed for a thin layer, doing only what is things you would like help to many releases; the KDE website necessary to support KDE's achieve. has been improved in both existing promotion teams and appearance and content; and a activities. The MWG members will In summary, if you need some core set of KDE brands had been also welcome and assist new help with promoting your KDE defined. contributors with finding ways to application or team, just send an help out. The group will also email to [email protected] and The achievement of those original facilitate constructive discussions you can expect someone to reply objectives combined with a surge and encourage consensus on the (at the very least, one of the MWG in activity within the wider KDE KDE Promo mailing list. Any members should do so). However, Promotion team led to some existing contributor can and should if you would like a personal debate in the General Assembly as do these things, but the MWG contact or do not wish to discuss to whether the working group was members take responsibility for the issue on a public mailing list needed at all. Ultimately, it was making sure that questions and then you can also either contact agreed that there were potential offers of help do not go one of us individually or the MWG advantages in having a named unanswered and that debates stay mailing list at kde-ev- team with responsibility for global focused and relevant. [email protected]. The MWG coordination and that being part of mailing list is also followed by an official KDE Marketing Working As a KDE working group, the MWG some long term KDE contributors Group could assist members when also has the responsibility to outside of the MWG who have interacting with the media and report our activities in the e.V. experience and an interest in businesses. The new members Quarterly Reports, to enable marketing activities, giving us were voted in and asked to tracking of progress over time and access to years of experience of redefine the MWG's aims so that to inform the wider KDE promoting KDE. community about what we are up Image: Brownia Aura, Sanjay Prazad, India (KDE Look). Colored filter applied. JOIN THE GAME, MAKE A CHANGE!

Following the successful launch of the individual vision and values with KDE e.V. but yet cannot afford supporting membership campaign "Join the Game" in the time to offer their knowledge and skills, this June this year, we are happy to announce that the campaign provides an opportunity to make a campaign has attracted keen interest from the meaningful contribution by donating an annual worldwide community with over 120 membership fee of €100. This financial support is supporters signing up as members within just a few significant as the donations will be used for various months. purposes that directly benefit KDE, such as sprint development, IT infrastructure, community events, Supporting members come from 28 countries all over trade shows and meetings like the annual Akademy the world, namely Europe (64%), Asia (14%), South conference. America (11%), North America (7%) and Oceania (4%). Of these regions, the top five countries with the largest In return, supporting members enjoy a number of number of members are Germany (34%), USA (9%), rights and privileges which include receiving a Switzerland (7%), Norway (5%) and France (5%) quarterly report on activities of KDE e.V., as well as respectively. In addition, other countries where being invited to attend its annual general meeting and members are located include Spain, Denmark, Austria, Akademy conference. What's more, as a token of the Netherlands, Finland, the United Kingdom, Brazil, appreciation, each member will be sent a small Canada, Italy, Sweden, India, Belgium, Luxembourg, welcome gift upon successful application. Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Australia, Japan, Indonesia, Uruguay, Chile and Oman (listed in If you would like to financially support KDE as an descending order of number of members). individual, please visit the individual supporting membership program website at "Join the Game" is a win-win approach for both the http://jointhegame.kde.org members and KDE. For those who share the same

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT KDE, PLEASE VISIT JOINTHEGAME.KDE.ORG.

(Left) stOrmgreen, milanior; (Top) Nebessa, Alexander Zagornov, Ukraine (KDE Look); (Bottom) Invest in Freedom, Eugene Trouvnev

KDE eV Community Report | Issue 15 | 3rd Quarter, 2010 ev.kde.org/reports 4 COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS

Developer Sprints Michael G. Hansen and Gilles Tradeshows and Caulier. Equally important parts of the sprint were Andreas Huggel, to Community Events KDE IMAGING SPRINT whom we can be thankful for the (AIX-EN-PROVENCE, Exiv2 library and tools for all kinds AKADEMY 2010 of metadata handling and Laurent FRANCE) (TAMPERE, FINLAND) Espitallier, who works on import 27-29 August 2010 3-10 July 2010 tools from several other photo The KDE Imaging team got management applications, like KDE met for its yearly flagship together in southern French city or Nikon Project. It was conference, Akademy, in Tampere, Aix-en-Provence for the group's really great and fruitful experience Finland. The event was kindly third coding sprint, this year for all, to get to know the people hosted by COSS, the Finnish Centre organized by digiKam lead you work with through the internet for Open Source Solutions. developer, Gilles Caulier. The team finally in person. Akademy started with a two-day was mostly working on putting conference attended by more than much better shape on this year's KDE-TELEPATHY SPRINT 400 visitors from all over the GSoC work, in which digiKam got (CAMBRIDGE, UK) world, which then blended into three students. 18-20 September 2010 several days of designing, programming, discussing and The outcome of GSoC, which Telepathy is a framework for working on the future of Free features face detection and writing applications that can use Desktops. Topics included mobile, recognition by Aditya Bhatt, real-time communication and community and many others. geotagging features by Gabriel collaboration features. Telepathy- Voicu and non-destructive image KDE aims to integrate Telepathy KDE's chief motivator, Aaron Seigo, editing and image versioning by with the KDE environment, proposed a common direction for Martin Klapetek, will be included in providing great features for end KDE development: Elegance. The an upcoming digiKam 2.0 version users that range from contact lists, concept of elegance combines along with Kunal Ghosh's Summer VoIP calls and instant messaging to intuitive and beautiful user of Kode work - scripting support collaboration tools. Everything is interfaces with technologically for digiKam. integrated within the user's outstanding solutions. In the environment (instead of having following hacking sessions, many But all this work wouldn't be in different sets of applications developers started thinking how place where it is today if it wasn't handling this). they can make their software for their great mentors and more elegant, and thus much digiKam developers, with whom This sprint was kindly hosted by more attractive to use. they could work side-by-side on Collabora and also had help from the sprint - Marcel Wiesweg, Novell. At Collabora's office, the Using KDE software on mobile developers created a roadmap for devices was another big subject of the project and worked hard to discussion and coding. The KDE KDE'S YEARLY create merge requests on Qt, community is very interested in CONFERENCE, upstreamed some contributions to providing their software for mobile telepathy-qt4 and used Qt Quick platforms such as MeeGo. AKADEMY, WAS to create some applications (continued on page 7) prototypes in order to test ATTENDED BY MORE functionality. Also there was some work done regarding Nepomuk THAN 400 VISITORS integration with Telepathy and as a consequence of this some bugs FROM ALL OVER THE got fixed in both sides. WORLD

KDE eV Community Report | Issue 15 | 3rd Quarter, 2010 ev.kde.org/reports 5

AT AKADEMY, AARON SEIGO PROPOSED A COMMON DIRECTION FOR KDE DEVELOPMENT: TOWARD ELEGANCE. ELEGANCE COMBINES INTUITIVE AND BEAUTIFUL USER INTERFACES WITH OUTSTANDING TECHNOLOGY.

(continued from page 5) RMLL (BORDEAUX, FRANCE) OSCON, directly after the 6-11 July 2010 Community Leadership During this Akademy, work Summit, was very well continued on making (and From 6th to 11th of July 2010, the attended and provided in extension the 11th edition of the RMLL (the another excellent Groupware Suite) and the Plasma biggest event in France regarding opportunity to (re-) user interface library available on free software) took place in connect to our users and partners MeeGo. Like the KDE community, Bordeaux. This year, KDE had a like the Software Freedom MeeGo aims to support a full booth there for the first time, Conservancy, the OpenHatch team spectrum of devices in terms of thanks to Geoffray Levasseur who and Google's Summer of Code formfactor and performance. organized the KDE presence. team. Kontact Mobile provides the most scalable and powerful groupware Geoffray and all the other KDE FISL (PORTO ALEGRE, BRASIL) volunteers who worked at the client currently available for 21-24 July 2010 mobile devices, while the Plasma booth did an amazing job showing universal canvas provides the most KDE to different kind of users: The KDE Brazil team attended this mature high-level, extensible and "non- users", Linux users that year's FISL, one of the major free brandable toolkit for mobile use other desktop environment software events in Latin America, devices that are using Qt. During and also old KDE users that for to meet up with some new users Akademy, the first phone call using different reasons didn't migrate to of KDE software and spread the prototype Plasma mobile phone KDE 4. While explaining the word of Konqui. shell was made. advantages of KDE and free software, they also distributed live FISL took place in Porto Alegre Local communities played another CDs and showed different from 21-24 July and gathered big role in this year's Akademy. applications from KDE like Amarok, roughly 7500 attendees from During the past years, KDE has and Digikam. sixteen countries, from students seen a tremendous growth in and enthusiasts to entrepreneurs communities in especially India COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP SUMMIT and government representatives. and Brazil. This year, Akademy AND OSCON (PORTLAND, USA) There were hundreds of talks, saw the largest contingent from 19-23 July 2010 meetings and courses, over two these strong Free Software hundred exhibitors and hundreds countries ever. Many people from Jeff Mitchell, Valorie Zimmerman of people involved in running the India and Brazil have joined this and Lydia Pintscher attended the event. year's Akademy to connect with Community Leadership Summit the international KDE community and OSCON. The Community KDE Brazil had presentations and to become ambassadors in Leadership Summit is an event for ranging from geek topics to their home countries for the Free people working with communities. educational, business-oriented, Desktop and KDE software. The summit provided an excellent and government-related talks. networking experience. It was There were four KDE-related talks helpful to learn about how other and meetings this year: community leaders both from Free Software projects, other non-profits One presentation was about KDE as well as companies deal with Lovelace, free software by women. issues in their communities and This was presented by Camila what they do to grow and sustain Ayres and Tomaz Canazbra. The them. Third Brazilian KDE Users and (continued on next page)

Page 7 Photos. (Top Left) Attendees at Akademy (Photo by Matthias Welwarsky). (Top Right) Kunah Ghosh at KDE Imaging Sprint (Photo by Gilles Caulier). (Center Left) KDE Imaging Team (Photo by Andreas Huggel). (Center Right) Listening to Presentations at Akademy (Photo by Matthias Welwarsky). (Bottom Left) Launch Party for KDE in Brazil (Photo by Tulio Magno). (Bottom Right) Taking a break from meetings at Akademy (Photo by Matthias Welwarsky). (continued from previous page) project with great success, and projects, specially for students. overall the three day conference Some colleges and universities in Developers Meeting provided a provided KDE with great exposure Brazil have a strong influence from nice opportunity to spread recent to the more commercial/enterprise companies, news to a general audience and Linux sector. so there is a kind of barrier that receive some feedback from users keeps students away from and developers about KDE FREE SOFTWARE FESTIVAL (BELO important experiences in a real software. Furthermore, it was a HORIZONTE / BETIM, BRAZIL) world project. The talk tried to chance to promote the Join the show that the number of 14 August 2010 Game campaign, to spread the companies working with Free technical advances, and say, “Join Since 2009 the KDE community in Software projects is growing in us, we are a great and enjoyable Brazil gained a very active Brazil, and they have difficulty family.” Then there was a talk regional group in the Brazilian hiring new developers. about how to develop your state of Minas Gerais - the KDE- JavaScript Plasma Widget in 20 After this introduction, it was time MG group (http://kde-mg.org/). Minutes. During this talk even to describe the KDE project, giving These folks with their red t-shirts those with no technical a picture of its size, number of (due to the color of the state flag) background found that it would be people involved, then in the 'show have been working very well easy to contribute using JavaScript off' moment, the traditional promoting KDE and August was as their way to KDE contribution. desktop applications and some of the time for the third edition of the People were impressed with how the new fronts KDE is exploring, Belo Horizonte Free Software easy one could bring their favorite such as Plasma Mobile and Festival. In fact, this year the event application to life with fancy Kontact Mobile - both running on happened in Betim, a city in the animations in the Plasma desktop and on a N900 - Plasma metropolitan region of Belo Workspaces. Finally, the second Netbook and a mention about the Horizonte, with the help of another Brazilian Google Summer of Code concept of Plasma Tablet, Free Software promoting group, Students meeting took place. introduced by Marco Martin in a the Betim Open Source Although not strictly dedicated to blog post in the same week of the (www.betimopensource.com.br). KDE, this was a great opportunity event. to share experiences, tell people The festival took place in a college In general, it was a great “You can!”, and, of course, talk a and more than three hundred opportunity to promote KDE, and little bit about Season of KDE and people attended the talks. The some of the attendants showed our achievements during the last public was mostly comprised of interest in learning Qt, teachers years. newcomers, people interested in asked more about KDE Edu learning about Free Software in applications and a group of LINUXCON (BOSTON, MA, USA) general and some of them looking students were quite impressed with 10-12 August 2010 for a starting point to contribute. the mobile projects. There were talks about several The local KDE community in Free Software topics, including Boston turned out in force to staff "KDE, Free Software and Inovation" FROSCON (BONN, GERMANY) a booth at LinuxCon, the premier and a course "Learn Qt and how 21-22 August 2010 commercial Linux conference in to develop for KDE". the USA. KDE had five volunteers Keeping with tradition, a couple of in the well-appointed booth, and Anselmo de Melo gave the "KDE KDE enthusiasts led by Eckhart focused on talking to conference for beginners" talk. The talk Wörner organized a booth at attendees about the new Join the started with a summary of the FrOSCon, one of the major Open Game campaign as well as origins of KDE, the strong relations Source conferences in Germany. demoing the latest KDE software with Qt since the very first releases They presented KDE's recent 4.5 on various computers. and also reinforced the idea of the release to a mostly technical freedom and the importance of audience, and further spread the Algot Runeman installed and contributing with Free Software word about the "Join the Game" demoed the KDE On Netbook campaign. IF YOUR COMPANY WISHES TO SUPPORT KDE, PLEASE VISIT THE SUPPORTING MEMBERS PAGE AT EV.KDE.ORG/GETINVOLVED/SUPPORTING-MEMBERS.PHP.

KDE eV Community Report | Issue 15 | 3rd Quarter, 2010 ev.kde.org/reports 8 NEW MEMBERS KDE e.V. is happy to welcome the following new members:

Ben Cooksley

Eugene Trounev

Giovanni Venturi

Martin Grässlin

Stuart Jarvis SYSTEM ADMIN REPORT KDE E.V. ALIASES VERSION CONTROL BOARD kdemail.net aliases: 2 new, 2 updated svn/git accounts: 58 created, 240 , President disabled (mostly https, due to Frank Karlitschek, Vice President kde.org aliases: 4 new, 4 updated upcoming git migration. In most cases, and Treasurer these were inactive contributors.) Adriaan de Groot, Vice President MAILING LISTS , Board Member 5 new mailing lists were created: Sebastian Kügler, Board Member ksecretservice-devel, kde-usa, open- This report is published by KDE collaboration-services, kde-edu-pt_BR, e.V., copyright 2010 . 2 mailing lists were CONTACT deleted: magazine, kwintv Website: ev.kde.org Email: [email protected]

REPORT PREPARED BY Adriaan de Groot FINANCES Artur Souza Claudia Rauch INCOME (€): Eugene Trounev Supporting membership: 5,450.00 Jenny Yeung Akademy 2010 sponsorship: 27,200.00 Jos Poortvliet Donations: 52,700.00 Justin Kirby Rob Oakes Total: 85,350.00 Stuart Jarvis Thanks to the many other EXPENSES (€): members of KDE who contributed to this report. Developer sprints: 4,630.00 Akademy 2010 travel support: 15,450.00 Trade shows and marketing: 1,630.00 Office and personel costs: 14,900.00 Total: 31,980.00

AT THE END OF QUARTER 3, 2010, KDE E.V. HAD A POSITIVE BALANCE OF €270,850. Note: The financial numbers provded here are approximations and are provided for informational purposes only. For a complete accounting record, please contact the KDE e.V. directly.

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