COMMUNITY REPORT 4TH QUARTER, 2011 | ISSUE 20
WELCOME MESSAGE
Dear Members, Contributors, Users of The other big step was to hold the looking beyond its own borders, with KDE software and Friends, first sprint focused on KDE e.V. the first KDE applications becoming matters. Where previously only the available in the OVI store for, among KDE turned fifteen on October 14th, Board would come together to others, Nokia's N9 phone. KDE e.V. 2011. This marks an amazing discuss, plan and take decisions, we has supported this effort by helping to milestone of one-and-a-half decades wanted to try a more hands-on organize a sprint for the mobile of development of Free Software on approach, invite other community developers to get together and solve the desktop and beyond. Cornelius members, and not just talk but do. problems shared across the tells us more in the featured article. This turned out very well, with community when it comes to participation from other KDE e.V. deployment of KDE apps on mobile The KDE community in its fifteenth members for such efforts as individual platforms. year is working hard on getting the and corporate supporting next major version of the KDE membership. Other topics included We are grateful for all the supporters, software compilation out of the doors. drafting a budget for 2012, working contributers, donators, users, and KDE 4.8 is targeted for release by end on a new policy for approving sprint friends who have made KDE happen of January 2012. funding and more. over the last fifteen years. We couldn't have done this without broad support. While the community is focusing on On the development side, the KDE If you would like to join in making the the software, KDE e.V. is building a community has also seen some very next fifteen years of KDE successful, foundation to enable the community exciting things. There was the first consider joining the game on to do this amazing development. One release of Plasma Active, KDE's http://jointhegame.kde.org and of the big steps in this quarter was to offering for touch-based devices becoming a supporting member. find a location for the next annual targeting a whole spectrum of meeting of the KDE community, hardware in October. It was followed On to an exciting 2012! Akademy 2012. We proudly up in December by Plasma Active announced that Akademy 2012 will Two, bringing wider support for Sebastian Kügler, for the Board of take place from 30 June to 6 July hardware and an improved user Directors 2012 in Tallinn, Estonia. experience. The community is also
CONTENTS Welcome Message 1 15 Years of KDE 2 What is the KDE Free Qt Foundation and why does it matter to the future of KDE? KDE Activities 3 – 10 Recaps from KDE sprints, trade shows, and other activities New Members 11 Financial Report and KDE e.V. Board 12 15 YEARS OF KDE
Cornelius Schumacher, KDE e.V. President
released ownCloud 2, our helicopter going into the cloud on its mission to retain your freedom and control of your data.
The KDE desktop is part of our lives. We and millions of others use it every day. It's great for getting work done. We are on par with other desktops, and we are still pushing the limits and innovating for all the users out there. This won't change anytime soon.
Plasma Active is one of the results of our innovation activities. It brings KDE to tablets, and it comes with a strong vision to create an elegant, desirable user experience for a spectrum of devices. It builds on the foundation of the KDE software, but it opens new doors, explores new areas. I'm really looking forward to what we can achieve there.
ownCloud goes beyond what we have done before. It runs in the cloud. But it's built on the values and the community of KDE. We deeply care about software freedom. Enabling users to retain control of their data Cornelius ‒ by Matthias Welwarsky and their privacy is a big part of that. ownCloud does that where other cloud solutions fall short. It brings fresh blood and energy, and opens up a space, which Fifteen years ago Matthias Ettrich started the KDE we weren't able to address before. Here as well I'm community. On 14th October 1996 he wrote his looking forward to what we can do. famous email to the de.comp.os.linux.misc group on Usenet. He called for other programmers to join him Fifteen years of KDE is a long time. I joined the to create a free desktop environment for Linux community in 1999, and I can say that KDE changed targeted at end users. Many, many people joined. my life. I probably wouldn't have the job I have today Thousands of developers wrote millions lines of code. without KDE, I wouldn't live where I live today, and I We did 90 stable releases of our core set of would miss a lot of great experiences and friends I applications alone, not counting all additional stuff wouldn't have met. In the interview I gave for the and the thousands of 3rd party applications. "people behind KDE" series, there was a question, what my favorite feature of KDE was. My answer was: So now, fifteen years later, we are done. We have a "the community". Many other KDE people answered wonderful free desktop environment for Linux which is the same. used by millions of users every day. Well, are we done? Not quite. While we have reached the original That's the core. KDE is an awesome community. I'm goal of creating an appealing desktop that makes proud to be part of it, and I'm looking forward to be Linux accessible to everyone for everyday tasks, our part of it for the next fifteen years of KDE. scope has broadened. There are whole new classes of devices in need of free and friendly user interfaces, it's not only the desktop anymore. The cloud presents new opportunities for connecting computers more than ever, and presents new challenges for freedom of software and data.
We are on it. October 2011 saw frenetic activity in the KDE community. In early October, we released version 4.7.2 of our flagship product, the classical desktop. Just a week later we released Plasma Active One, our speedboat going into the waters of tablets and the device spectrum. A few days later, we KDE ACTIVITIES
Developer Sprints and envisoned different situations about the Solid Team and our in order to identify different motivations to do what we do. SOLID problems and needs. With that data, we started to design a Miscellanea: MADRID solution for each of these issues. Apart from the big hot topics, we October 2011 But it wasn't just about usability in worked on a few other topics such: the Network Management world, Alex Fiestas we also managed to release the • The new screen configuration next big version 0.9(rc1), draw a architecture was presented plan for the next year, and start to work on it by making libnm and • Draft how we would merge The Solid Community gathered for libmm compile again. Lamarque kio_remote and kio_network their annual sprint with developers, became the new maintainer of designers and other collaborators Network Management and plans • Draft a roadmap for PlacesView working together on different to work together with Ilia Kats areas. This year's Solid Sprint can towards the 1.0 version. • Inhibit suspension if an external be summarized as follows: screen is connected and the lid is PowerDevil, Usability, Community PowerDevil: closed. and LibSolid future. Also during the sprint, Dario Freddi GLUON Usability: worked on perfecting power saving features in the Plasma MUNICH This year, a usability expert joined workspaces by fixing almost all November 2011 the sprint, which was very known bugs and refining the fortunate as usability was one of default settings based on the Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen the hot topics this year. Over the feedback we've got from the first few days, Björn Balazs lead a community and from within the Over the last couple of years, it usability classroom based on the Solid team. Another area of has become almost a tradition to work we were going to do on improvement was usability, have a Gluon sprint prior to Qt Network Management. After a focusing the efforts on integrating Developer Days in Munich. This quick introduction to usability custom profiles into the Activity year was no different. Through techniques, we started defining concept as well as redesigning much effort, a sprint was pulled two characters (AKA personas), and simplifying the configuration together for the Gluon team, in each with different skills and settings where possible. part commemorating the first of know-how. One persona was a these sprints two years ago, where person with no interest in LibSolid: the Gluon Vision was first laid computers or coding, but was down, and in part to assist in the instead interested in surfing the Kevin Ottens and Alex Fiestas work towards the next release. web, watching videos, etc. (we worked on libsolid, identifying called this persona Penny) The points where the architecture can The Tasks be improved, drafting a plan for other one was going to be an Prior to the sprint, we engineer (called Amy). We decided libsolid2 and finishing the maintainership transition. brainstormed discussion topics for to focus on Penny, so the goal was the event, and decided that there to make our software fit her Community: was plenty to hack on and talk needs. about. One of the tasks discussed What started almost as a was the potential for taking part in Network Management: joke—recording a video of a new Google Code-In with the rest of At the beginning of the sprint we tiny feature—became an KDE. Last year we had great mainly focused on usability, using important point of this sprint. We success with this, so we decided to our two personas (Penny and decided to interview each of the throw our lot in and came up with Amy). We went through all the attendees so everybody within the a number of possible tasks, features of Network Management KDE community will know more spanning a range of topics. We
KDE eV Community Report | Issue 20 | 4th Quarter, 2011 ev.kde.org/reports 3 that during the sprint he "had an opportunity to run through the project set up process from scratch, using the Qt Creator IDE and Minigw compiler on Windows. While emerge is popular, it is not essential, and I did not have the time to build qt and kde libs." During this work, he fixed a number of CMake-related issues in Gluon's build system, and encountered an unusual signalling issue on the Windows platform. Stuart again, "Taking advantage of the Qt Experts at Dev Days, we discovered that we had stumped them too—the right objects existed, the signal was being triggered, and the destination object was not being destroyed. I believe this is responsible for some of the rendering issues we Gluon Sprint Team ‒ by Stuart Dickson witnessed on Windows where the rendered display was not being talked about the Gluon Player some was completed and some is positioned correctly in the organization being too much like ongoing: The GluonSmarts game window." Work on this is an experiment. Now that we are AI system (a Google Summer of continuing, but it would have been reaching a serious state, we Code project by Pranav much more difficult to diagnose considered seriously how to Ravichandran) was merged in. So had we not been able to pull in organize this collection of Gluon now has a powerful game the experts. Hanna Skott worked applications. A consensus was AI system available directly from on the new QtOpenAL library, reached to retire some of the the Gluon Creator game which splits out GluonAudio into experiments and to restructure construction tool. two parts, so the code can be others. A transcript of this shared between more projects discussion can be found on the Laszlo Papp researched the more easily. She created Gluon Player wiki page. The core potential of integrating Gluon QALBuffer, QALBufferFormat and result is that there will be one Player with Telepathy, which is started on QALSources shown in player installed on any platform important on the Harmattan the diagram made during the called Gluon Player in the .desktop platform with integration directly discussion. file. We also discussed the into the accounts system. He also began work on the restructuring of potential for constructing a generic What's Next? settings system for games, which the players that was discussed would allow for cross platform during the sprint. The next version of Gluon is friendly settings dialogues and the approaching rapidly This sprint like, and the possibility of moving Arjen Hiemstra helped push helped us jump a great deal of the Gluon from the playground through the many topics for way towards it. With the team section to extragear (the sysadmin discussion during this expanded by the addition of team willing, of course). sprint—picking up the markers Hanna and Stuart, we have and scribbling away. He spent introduced fresh blood into the Achievements time with Stuart Dickinson on project—two active members with Windows work, and doing some great energy to help further the Each of the sprint participants did code of his own—in particular ideals of Gaming Freedom in the a good deal of hacking during the preparing a long-lived feature world. event. Some work was begun, branch for import. Stuart reported
KDE eV Community Report | Issue 20 | 4th Quarter, 2011 ev.kde.org/reports 4 CALLIGRA Saturday afternoon, SKF gave a KDE ON MOBILE remote presentation on how they HELSINKI BERLIN are using Calligra Words as a November 2011 report generator/editor in their November 2011 Boudewijn Rempt tool. Their usage is very Laszlo Papp advanced, it includes RDF, for On the weekend of November 11, instance, and the presentation was Over the last couple of years, the more than twenty Calligra a huge success. It's always great KDE Mobile project has been developers braved the fierce to see the results of your project in evolving as it targeted many weather of Helsinki to meet up actual use! embedded platforms. Currently, again! Well, the weather wasn't the focus is on Nokia gadgets that fierce actually, but it could A similar presentation was given (N9and N950) running the have been! We met in the office by Nokia the next day. We were platform called Harmattan. Eleven developers met in person at a recent KDE Sprint, giving a boost to porting KDE Applications onto this platform, creating new working relationships, and discussing various issues around the KDE Mobile project for handsets. The sprint was held at the Physics Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin between the 18th and the 20th of November.
The Goals
Calligra Sprint Team ‒ by Dmitry Kazakov We began collecting critical issues prior to the sprint. Short tower that houses Nokia's research shown how well suited the Calligra introductions at the beginning of department during weekdays for office engine is to power the the sprint got people familiar with two days of hacking, presentations Harmattan Office application on what others were working on. and meetings. For several Nokia's smartphone, the N9. This Despite having individual attendees, it was their first travel to being a developer meeting, a slide applications to port, we agreed a community gathering: welcome that showed that we're doing that there was a need to establish Smit Patel, Brijesh Patel and better than Microsoft's mobile an optimal and simplified Dimitrios Tanis! office was followed by four slides development workflow for KDE of Highly Important Bugs in what Mobile Application developers. Some highlights: the Saturday we can improve to make Calligra Therefore, we started focusing on morning meeting where we even better! establishing the common decided to have one or two infrastructure. additional beta releases - and the But that was great as well - as same day our Release Dude (who great as the lunches and dinner We discussed the potential couldn't be present, unfortunately) Nokia provided for all of us. development environments came up with the same idea. It's Thanks go to Nokia and KO GmbH available—the Harmattan Platform not that we don't want to release, for sponsoring travel and SDK (Scratchbox) and MADDE but the first Calligra release has to accommodation, and to Nokia for (Maemo Application Development be good! sponsoring food and drink for the and Debugging Environment). It whole group! was important that this be discussed thoroughly, because it is crucial to reduce set-up time for our developers. Set-up was a hot topic—how to organize development dependencies such as kdelibs, kde-runtime, libkdeedu and others. We decided to use the Community Repository on the MeeGo Community Open Build Service. We agreed to continue this way with an additional point: a fallback option is needed for publishing KDE packages if the KDE on Mobile Sprint Team ‒ by Robert Riemann Community OBS is not functioning. • Laszlo Papp got a KDE • Bruno de Oliveira Abinader We talked about the available Harmattan repository in place, set helped with Webkit and Mobility technologies for the up the wikipage, and wrote the questions and investigated the UI—Harmattan and Plasma. For scratchbox guide and packaging testing and debugging phase of now, the Harmattan components examples. He also got the Gluon the development cycle. will provide a more native look Player built on Harmattan after and feel. The next topic was the resolving many issues. He was a • Robert Riemann helped with local packaging workflow of the resource to others on platform organization when Thomas was development cycle. App stores issues. not around. He also worked on such as the Nokia OVI Store Kubeplayer. accept only applications, no • Manuel Nickschas worked on the libraries or plugins. After a Quassel port, and shared ideas • Albert Astals Cid dealt with thorough discussion of the about MADDE and other topics. getting dependency libraries available approaches, we grabbed packaged, while working on the idea of getting our • As the local organizer, Thomas Blinken and KTuberling. dependencies into the same Murach took care of us, and package. We also discussed testing showed off his first mobile • Andre Heinecke worked on and debugging applications on application. packaging issues such as Raptor target devices efficiently after on the Community Open Build development, and tighter • Aleix Pol Gonzalez dealt mostly Service and kdelibs packaging. He integration of the KDE Software with MADDE, made a patch also continued cleaning up Kontact Collection (especially notifications against kdelibs for Harmattan and Touch based on his previous and Plasma components) with the created documentation about the Harmattan/Kontact Touch work. Harmattan platform. workflow. He also started a discussion on the kde-buildsystem • Christian Ratzenhofer was Sprinters mailing list about a cmake and enthusiastic about helping Manuel MADDE issue. He will continue his with the Quassel porting. The participants did a good work on the KAlgebra Mobile amount of discussing and hacking project. Social event with the KDE e.V. during the event. Importantly, we 2011 achieved our goal of creating a • Friedrich W. H. Kossebau studied Sprints are not just about getting Knowledge Base wiki page. The QML and Harmattan Components sprint formed a good foundation technical things done, but also for porting Okteta and dealing about having some off-topic fun. for a KDE Android sprint in the first with his Kasten framework. half of the next year. Stay tuned! Luckily, the KDE e.V. 2011 sprint was happening simultaneously • Volker Krause was busy with with ours. So we had the When it came time to turn to hosting the KDE e.V. 2011 sprint, opportunity to gather everyone individual projects: and worked on Kontact Touch for a pleasant meal at a nice cafe (video)
KDE eV Community Report | Issue 20 | 4th Quarter, 2011 ev.kde.org/reports 6 in Kreuzberg. Immense tastiness discussion of the topics, then split discussion about the tasks finished, and good German beer helped us up into smaller groups to work on those still to be done and KDE in have an excellent evening there. them. One subteam reviewed general. The KDE folks of the two sprints KDE's page thanking past donors, made it a memorable social and set up new criteria for who On the second morning, the Board meeting. On Saturday evening should get a mention on the page members present had a short after working hard during the day, and for how long. meeting, while the rest of us a few of us went out for a bit of worked on the topic of sprints. socializing at "B-Lage" where the The other team reviewed the Sprints are important to KDE beer was cheap and good. The Individual Supporting Membership because they foster collaboration place was awesome for listening Program—the "Join the Game" and friendship in a community to the music and chatting about campaign—and identified that mostly works online. In non-technical issues. improvements for the main addition, they are effective at webpage and the supporting getting a lot done in a short time. KDE E.V. SPRINT BERLIN November 2011
Stuart Jarvis
Over the weekend of 19 and 20 November, KDE contributors met in Berlin for the KDE e.V. Sprint- the first ever. KDE e.V. is the non-profit organization that represents KDE in legal and financial matters and provides funding to assist KDE development and promotion. We wanted to work on some key areas to form a strong foundation for KDE e.V.'s future development, including:
• The Individual and Corporate KDE e.V. Sprint ‒ by Stuart Jarvis Supporting Membership Programs infrastructure. We decided to make In the past, sprints have been • KDE's policy on providing public the whole program more approved in an ad-hoc fashion thanks to donors of money, interactive for members. Steps when requested. This has not been hardware and services towards this goal include providing a problem as the relatively low Supporting Members with more (though steadily growing) number • Budget and goals for 2012 frequent updates on the progress of sprints has made the system in KDE and inviting them to local workable. However, increasing • Setting up a better method for KDE events. We also brainstormed sprint activity raises the concern approving sprint financing, ideas for how to promote the that a limit may someday be planning and reporting program at events like FOSDEM reached. There's a need for a and created an FAQ for booth fairer system than what is now Most of us arrived on Friday volunteers. To conclude the first effectively first come, first served. evening and had dinner with the day, we got back together to We also determined that more attendees of the KDE Mobile review the results from each team advanced planning would provide Sprint. and discuss the topics further. That an overview of sprint funding evening was rounded off with needs before money is allocated. Our real work began on Saturday dinner at a local Syrian restaurant. morning. We started with a And of course we had more During a quick break for pizza, we were visited by a local researcher Overall, the e.V. sprint was specific GSoC project.The Quick interested in building community productive. Progress was made on Start books were launched at the dashboards to discuss the potential a number of issues that are opening party for the GSoC relevance to KDE. Some of us sat essential to keeping KDE running Mentors summit immediately down with her to discuss the KDE smoothly and maintain support for following the event. community, how we feel it has our contributors. evolved over time, and the trends Four free software projects (KDE, that might be interesting to track. The sprint attendees thanks KDAB OpenStreetMap, OpenMRS, and Building a dashboard of these for providing meeting facilities in Sahana Eden) each sent three to trends could help the community their Berlin office. five contributors to write books be more aware of how it is about the projects this week. The evolving and how this affects our Trade Shows and KDE team consisted of four work. This discussion helped to members, namely Karan, Rohan, create some initial interest and to Community Events Supreet and Valorie. Writing a get everyone moving towards a book in a week is an amazing common goal. We are looking GSOC DOC SPRINT - MOUNTAIN achievement, whether for a Free forward to seeing this happen. VIEW Software project or a publisher. In October 2011 fact, the first day and last day of In the afternoon, everyone got the sprint were unconferences, so back together to decide on the Supreet Pal Singh there were only three days for remaining topics to cover. We had a group discussion of ways to get companies already in the KDE ecosystem more involved, centered around enhancing the Corporate Supporting Membership and Patronage Programs. Agustin presented a proposal for creating a network of companies around KDE, building upon our expertise and existing contacts in companies working with KDE and Qt. We also discussed the budget for 2012. The Board's draft budget was received positively. There was discussion of the areas in which KDE e.V. spends GSoC Doc Sprint its money, the costs associated With gratitude to flossmanuals.net with some of our tasks, and ways The Doc Camp was held at Google actual writing. to tighten up financial headquarters in Mountain View, management. Finally, a draft California. It consisted of 2 major The books were not really finished trademark policy for KDE was components - an unconference at the end of the sprint, even discussed. We studied existing and 3-5 short form Book Sprints to though they go up for viewing and trademark policies from other free produce 'Quick Start' guides for for sale immediately. This doesn't software organizations and specific GSoC projects.The detract from the value of the considered options for KDE. We unconference explored topics material produced. It just means want to protect the term "KDE" proposed by the participants. they need to be followed up by from misuse, but not make Many topics on free either successive sprints or unnecessary difficulties. In the documentation of Free Software updating and adding at regular evening, most of the team went for were proposed for discussion intervals. Books that come from a final dinner at a Persian during the event. Each Quick Start sprints are also quite short with a restaurant on the way back to the Sprint brought together 5-8 typical length is 125 pages, hotel. individuals to produce a book on a growing over time. The length also depends on the number of people
KDE eV Community Report | Issue 20 | 4th Quarter, 2011 ev.kde.org/reports 8 working on the sprint—four in this case. So we got into the process of creating a mix of fresh writing and copying material from the official KDE docs. The latter required some editing and polish to blend in with the book. Our team's focus on developer documentation spared us the open- ended discussions over scope that the other teams had to undergo. But at key points during the writing, we still were forced to examine passages that appeared too hurried and unsubstantiated. Qt Contribution Day ‒ by Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen At each point we had to determine what the hidden QT CONTRIBUTION DAY - scheduled beforehand, but session topics where planned at the start topics were, and then whether to MUNICH of the meeting, which lead to a remove all references to them or October 2011 to expand them into new chapters wide range of topics being of their own . Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen covered throughout the day. All the way from community-focused The KDE book is fairly standard In June, a number of contributors topics such as what should be on developer documentation, albeit a and friends of the Qt project were the website, over how to work with beginner's guide with lots of invited to take part in the Qt the inqlude.org project on easing practical advice about working in Contributors Summit in Berlin. At the use of Qt-based libraries the KDE environment with the the time the Qt Open Governance which are not directly Qt sub- community. Our book—Beginning project had not yet been finalized, projects, to game development KDE Development—was created so many things being discussed with Qt, to discussing status and with GSoC students in mind, to were at the time just ideas. Since further development of projects help them get up and running KDE then the Qt Project was launched, such as Necessitas, the Android trunk, if necessary, as quickly as and inpired by this, a number of port of Qt. possible. Along with the technical people came up with the idea of help, we also discussed the KDE doing a follow up event at the two A number of the topics were put Community, where to get help, Developer Days conferences. immediately into action, as well as and how to communicate -- all in discussed further on mailing lists one short book. I hope you will Under the name of the Qt and the like. Yet others were visit Contribution Day, people from the discussed further at the Qt http://booki.flossmanuals.net/kde- Qt project in general, and many Contribution Day in San Francisco, guide/, create an account, and from specifically the KDE project, which was less heavily KDE help us make it better! got together on Monday the 24th focused. A highly active day with of October, the first day of the very energetic discussions by Munich Qt Develper Days. greatly enthusiastic people. Following the style of an unconference, nothing was AKADEMY-FR - TOULOUSE SEASON OF KDE 2011
November 2011 Lydia Pintscher
Anne-Marie Mahfouf The call for applications for On the weekend of 26th and 27th tablet (Plasma Active One) and Season of KDE 2011—our KDE- November, the first ever Akademy- several laptops. The tablet was a only mentoring program running fr in Toulouse took place. It was hit with the visitors and many next to Google Summer of part of a larger event called people said they would buy one Code—received more attention "Capitole du Libre", organized by with Plasma Active. I also showed than ever before. Applications had the Toulouse LUG with a Ubuntu Blinken on the desktop and on the to be closed after 100 had been Party and a Drupal Camp, all at N9 when I was on duty at the received. We managed to match the same location, an engineering booth and that also impressed up nearly every student with a school for technology in the center people. The perception of KDE has great mentor and project to work of Toulouse. Around 20 KDE changed with all this: KDE's on. Students worked in various contributors were present, some of Plasma workspaces are not the parts of KDE including Calligra, them working on KDE for a long heavy desktops that people think Choqok, Kate and ownCloud. time and others quite new to the they are, Plasma Active is fluid on 20 students finished their projects community. Aleix Pol also joined a tablet and apps can also run on sucessfully and will receive a t- from Barcelona as he is a fluent a phone! The next day, Sunday, shirt and certificate in the next French speaker. we held some workshops about weeks. Given the extremely low translations, bug triaging, Zanshin, barrier to entry, this is an amazing On the Saturday there were two making plugins for Calligra, and success rate and more than talk tracks: one for people new to more. KDE, and one for advanced users double compared to last year. or contributors. We also had a The event was helpful in making Some of SoK participants were booth demoing KDE software on KDE in France more prominent, also able to attend the Desktop laptops and Plasma Active on a and for meeting new contributors Summit in Berlin and present their tablet. This was a huge success, who had never met other KDE project in front of a large audience people were very positive about it. people before. The KDE booth was - a first for all of them. They did I talked about KDE Edu with Aleix at the entrance of the Install Party great and spread their enthusiasm and about Plasma Active. and got many visitors. among all attendees. We're excited to again have been able to The talks were well received. There Thanks to Benjamin Port and Jean- introduce many new people to was a lot of interest in Plasma Nicolas Artaud who organized the Free Software and KDE in Active. The questions were event. and to every KDE particular and hope that many of interesting and quite advanced. We contributor who attended. them will stay with us and also had a booth with demos of a accomplish great things. They've shown they're capable of that.
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KDE eV Community Report | Issue 20 | 4th Quarter, 2011 ev.kde.org/reports 10 NEW MEMBERS
KDE e.V. is happy to welcome the following new members:
Carl Symons
Peter Grasch
Sayak Banerjee
Valentin Rusu
Valorie Zimmerman
KDE eV Community Report | Issue 20 | 4th Quarter, 2011 ev.kde.org/reports 11 FINANCES KDE E.V. BOARD INCOME (€): Cornelius Schumacher Supporting membership fees: 4,650 President
AT THE END OF QUARTER 4 2011, KDE E.V. HAD A POSITIVE BALANCE OF Report Prepared By €157,750. Carl Symons Note: The financial numbers provided here are approximations and are provided for informational purposes only. For a complete Claudia Rauch accounting record, please contact the KDE e.V. directly. Inu Kim Stuart Jarvis Thanks to the many other KDE members and supporters who SYSADMIN REPORT contributed to this report.
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