COMMUNITY REPORT 4TH QUARTER, 2010 | ISSUE 16

WELCOME MESSAGE The fourth quarter of of KDE, driven by passion, not have participated. Many thanks 2010 concludes an money. We mentored almost a for your continued support. You amazing year for KDE hundred high­school students help to make KDE happen. You E and KDE e.V. during Google's code­in on their are KDE. way into the A lot of great things community. 2011 promises to be another D happened. amazing year. In the summer Our fantastic sysadmin group did we'll have the Berlin Desktop We had a wonderful Summit together with our friends K it, and migrated to . Our under the promo team did wonders, with a from GNOME. We are Finnish midnight sun, constant flux of people coming in continuing to run developer one of the best Akademies ever, and going out. The release team sprints with full steam, pushing mixing old and new people in a cranked out no less than twenty­ the limits of KDE. KDE will beautiful and wonderfully three releases, including the organize and participate in a organized environment. Smaller major 4.4 and 4.5 releases, large number of events bringing groups met for nineteen KDE which are accepted as stable together the community, and e.V. supported developer sprints and enjoyable even by some of showing the world what can be throughout the year to get code the stronger KDE 4 critics. done with free software. done, to plan development, to build community. We also launched our "Join the I'm thankful for a great year game" campaign which gives 2010, and looking forward to a We had a hugely successful individuals a way to contribute to fantastic year 2011. summer of code and, to me even KDE as supporting members. So more impressive, a busy season far, more than a hundred people CONTENTS Welcome Message 1 What's happened in KDE during the past quarter? The Supporting Members of KDE 2 Who are the people who make KDE possible? KDE Activities 3-8 Recaps from KDE Developer sprints, trade shows and other gatherings. Open Software, Open Design, Open Culture 8-9 Images from the community. New Members, Finances, and Board 10-11

Any complicated ecosystem, whether natural or of software, is composed of many smaller components. KDE is no exception. In addition to being a desktop, KDE is also a set of frameworks and foundation projects upon which other applications are built. Some of these include the Oxygen icons (top right), search (bottom left), Nepomuk (middle), and Decibel (right). Each of the technologies has its own group of developers and community that help to drive it forward. MEET THE SUPPORTING MEMBERS OF KDE In June 2010, KDE e.V. launched the individual mainly from blog posts via the Planet KDE website. supporting membership program 'Join the Game', which is an opportunity for KDE enthusiasts to From the wide range of KDE applications, the ones support the KDE community financially. The first that Paul uses most are , , supporting member, Georg Greve ­ the founder of and . He uses for email the Europe (FSFE) and every day, both at work and at home, and is the holder of the German 'Bundesverdienstkreuz', interested in the new upcoming KDE PIM suite. For Joined the Game on June 9th, 2010. "KDE has further improvements, he would like to see technology developed by an incredible Nepomuk, Akonadi and some of the other "pillars" community that has had my support for years, so of KDE Platform 4 more smoothly integrated with it's an honor to 'Join the Game'!", explaining his KDE applications, in a way that is not too intrusive motivation to become a supporting member. or unfriendly to users. Moreover, Paul is interested to see what happens with and the There are many good reasons to support KDE with suite. Broadly, the thing that most interests a regular contribution (25€ per quarter or 100€ per Paul about KDE is how the various components year). It enables KDE e.V. to have a predictable and applications integrate together. He believes and stable income, which can be used to support that, if the level of integration can increase without contributors and events that help speed up too many hard dependencies being created, the development of KDE software, enhance promotion desktop experience can be enriched even further. efforts and help grow the community. Paul definitely agrees with the idea of 'software KDE e.V. contributors and users are scattered freedom for everyone'. He points out how throughout the world and have many different important Free Software is to enable people from backgrounds; their reasons for contributing are different countries to collaborate over the Internet likely to be just as diverse. We caught up with our to produce such a wide range of Free and Open 125th supporting member, Paul Eggleton, to ask Source software. him why he Joined the Game. Another benefit of being a supporting member It is no wonder that Paul is involved in free / open includes an invitation to KDE e.V.'s Annual General source software professionally (as an Embedded Assembly during the international KDE contributor Engineer with Intel's Open Source meeting Akademy. Paul is planning to attend Technology Centre) as well as in his leisure time. Akademy in the future to meet fellow supporters Paul has been a keen user of KDE software since and the greater KDE community. 2002, and also a developer, though he currently doesn't contribute code to KDE. That's why he If you too would like to financially support KDE, decided to enable KDE development indirectly by please visit the individual supporting membership 'Joining the Game'. He learned about this program program website at http://jointhegame.kde.org

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Leaf Structure ­ JFest ­ Germany (Look:KDE). KDE ACTIVITIES

beyond. There are now quite a result of these conversations, Developer Sprints few developers working on KDE Spain attended SIMO Solid, so it was a good time to Networks, the largest IT event in OLID PRINT S S , get them all together for a sprint Madrid. MADRID, SPAIN in Madrid, Spain. 1st to 3rd October 2010 The Solid sprint was a great Sebastian Kügler, Release success. Some Solid Solid is the part of the Manager and KDE e.V. Board components have moved to a KDE Platform that Member, combined his visit to more flexible, scalable, usable handles interaction with the Solid sprint with meetings and energy­friendly architecture, hardware, making it easy for with local representatives from while others have received love application developers to deal Madrid City Council and the in usability, stability and feature­ with things like network central government IT completeness. Janitor­like tasks availability by abstracting Department. Sebastian and like deprecating HAL in KDE underlying libraries within a Rafael Fernandez (KDE Spain software have been moved familiar KDE­style API. Solid is Vice President) with members of forward, and are expected to be becoming a well­defined team ASOLIF (the federation of free completed with the next feature within KDE. Everybody is software small and medium release of the KDE Platform in excited about the idea of enterprise associations), January 2011. attracting more developers introduced KDE and KDE Spain, interested in hardware support discussing legal, economic and on the desktop, mobile devices, management aspects of free netbooks, media center and software communities. As a SPRINTS PROVIDE KDE USERS, DEVELOPERS, AND DESIGNERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET AND SOLVE PROBLEMS FACE TO FACE.

Left, Developers at Ovi Sprint (photo by Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen). Bottom left, KDE Developers working at Solid Sprint. Bottom right, The Solid Developer Team. (Photo by Sebastian Kügler.)

KDE eV Community Report | Issue 16 | 4th Quarter, 2010 ev.kde.org/reports 3 OVI IS AN UMBRELLA FOR NOKIA'S CLOUD SERVICES. AT THE OVI SPRINT, THERE WAS DISCUSSION OF HOW OWNCLOUD, A KDE TECHNOLOGY, MIGHT BE USED ALONGSIDE OTHER, EXISTING NOKIA SOFTWARE.

OVI AND KDE SPRINT, for the sprinters, both at a Bernhard Beschow presented personal level and for their the first results of the OpenGL MUNICH, GERMANY 8th to 10th October 2010 sprint­related research work. The rendering development. results of the brainstorming Inclusion of OpenGL into Dinesh Sai sessions will soon be sent to is currently scheduled for Marble Nokia and a fruitful collaboration 1.2; the proper integration of this From October 8th to 10th, Nokia expected. capability into the Marble and KDE jointly hosted a was an important topic as it can developer sprint at Nokia's Office offer power savings, useful for in Munich. Knut Yrvin, well­ mobile versions of the software. known community manager of Other developer sessions Nokia, helped set up the sprint. covered libmarble Quick The sprint brought together 13 Bindings, Marble's internal OGC members of the KDE community KML based data structures, the to work on the topic: How Ovi Mac port and improved support and KDE can mutually benefit for Digital Elevation Models. each other ­ from the perspectives of both software The current Marble 0.10.0 was development and a purely the first release that brought collaborative effort. official support for mobile KDE MARBLE SPRINT, platforms. So the Marble MeeGo Ovi is an umbrella for Nokia's NUREMBERG, GERMANY version and the current state of cloud services, and currently 5th to 7th November 2010 Qt Mobility were at the center of includes a Messaging service, discussions. Several proposals Music store, an App store for The Marble Developer Weekend for user interface changes were Nokia Phones and a Map was held in Nuremberg at the made and lots of promising service. The sprint participants basysKom Office, where almost solutions were found. discussed how some of Ovi’s a dozen developers from the services can already be Marble community (the On 7th November, the group harnessed by KDE and how the "Marbleheads") met. covered topics such as rest of them can be integrated community outreach, improved into the appropriate KDE Marble 1.0 will be released in marketing and incubation with Applications. They also talked January 2011. In preparation, the the OSGeo foundation. The about how KDE might be able to sprint attendees analyzed the Marble Team is looking for new help replace Ovi Files (which current state of the Marble volunteers to help with was about to shut down), with and its Qt map widget library marketing, evangelism and the ownCloud project, started by (libMarble). The presentations documentation. The sprint one of the sprinters, Frank covered innovative features such ended with a hacking session Karlitschek. The sprint was also as the new worldwide Online where bugfixes and newly helpful to discuss the results and and Offline Routing capabilities discussed features were the future of Google Summer of in Marble 1.0. developed. Code student Dinesh’s project with his mentor Sascha Peilicke.

As a token of appreciation, along with a few N900’s and N97minis, Nokia graciously gave the sprinters free passes to its Qt Developer Days event in Munich. These were really useful

KDE eV Community Report | Issue 16 | 4th Quarter, 2010 ev.kde.org/reports 4 KDE MOBILE MEETING, Trade Shows and SOLISC, BERLIN, GERMANY FLORIANÓPOLIS, 18th to 21st November 2010 Community Events BRAZIL 22nd 23rd This sprint was kindly hosted in INTERGEO October 2010 KDAB's Berlin office, where KDE COLOGNE, GERMANY 5th to 7th October 2010 people could discuss and KDE was represented again in develop with a mobile target in the Software Livre Santa mind. The objective of the sprint INTERGEO is the world's largest Catarina (SoliSC), which is the was to connect various KDE event for geodesy, biggest Open Source and Free teams whose work in some way geoinformation and land Software event in Florianopolis, involves mobile platforms, so management with a large Brazil. The aim of the Free that they could share number of exhibitors and a lot of Software Association of Santa experiences and work on visitors. The KDE Marble team Catarina (organizer of this event) improvements for all mobile was invited to present its is to create a permanent forum projects. software at the booth of OSGeo for the discussion of free and its German representative software in the state of Santa The KDE project has a sub­ FOSSGIS e.V. They presented Catarina. Therefore, the main project working on an advanced the KDE­Edu Marble application goals of this group are to mobile user interface, using Qt and its library on October 6th educate people, to encourage and QML. After receiving their and 7th with two talks and live the use of Free and Open Lenovo IdeaPad's at the MeeGo demonstrations at the booth for Source Software (FOSS), to Conference, a group of KDE individuals. promote economic and social hackers set about getting KDE development through FOSS, software running on the multi­ Many people came to the booth and to create opportunities for touch capable tablet/netbook and were interested in what is people who otherwise would not hybrid. Discussions were about possible with KDE Marble. Many have access to technology. how to make it easier for of these people saw KDE applications that will use QML to software for the first time; others Tomaz Canabrava, a well known have the KDE convenience already knew about KDE and KDE contributor, gave a talk classes. were interested in what has during SoLiSC about 'KDE changed in our software during Scientific Appplications' including After these discussions, two the past few years. , and Rocs, and got things were clear to the KDE good feedback from SoLiSC Mobile team: first, we will need All in all it was an interesting attendees. It was great to see so to provide some KDE experience to present KDE many people interested in the conveniences to all applications software to a professional KDE software and the KDE that want to use QML, and audience with a completely community. second, we want to provide QML different focus. components to ease the development of these applications.

ATTENDING TRADE SHOWS ALLOWS FOR KDE MEMBERS TO INTERACT WITH THE LARGER FREE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY.

Right, KDE developers and users attending the Brazilian Northeast Free Software meeting (photos by KDE­Br).

KDE eV Community Report | Issue 16 | 4th Quarter, 2010 ev.kde.org/reports 5 In addition to the talks, there was IV BRAZILIAN NORTHEAST short­courses were taken. It was a user group space where really nice to see how people MEETING OF FREE attendees were able to meet are increasingly getting each other and mingle. There SOFTWARE (ENSL) interested in KDE, Qt/QML, and was also a business­focused NATAL, BRAZIL mobile development. meeting that took place during 5th and 6th November 2010 the event. It was supported by LATINOWARE, FOZ DO the local enterprise support The main goal of ENSL is IGUAÇU, BRAZIL organization (SEBRAE­SC), and promoting the use and 10th 12th November 2010 served as a bridge between local development of Free Software business and FOSS experts to as a path to the freedom of Sandro Andrade work towards the implementation speech, economy and From 10th to 12th of November of free alternatives in small technology. This year, as part of 2010, the 7th Latin­American business. IV ENSL, there were two Conference on Free Software national sub­events: 7º Forum (Latinoware 2010) took place at ROME LINUX DAY GNOME and 3º KDE Forum. Parque Tecnológico de Itaipu ROME, ITALY During the second edition of the Foz do Iguaçu (PR ­ Brazil). It is 23 October 2010 3º KDE Brazil Forum (the first the second largest conference one was in International Free on free software in Brazil and The Rome Linux Day was Software Forum), KDE Brazil brought together 3125 organized by La Sapienza Linux members presented lectures and participants from 20 countries. Users Group and sponsored by mini­courses about Qt/KDE There were 160 talks and 20 Novell. KDE was represented by community and technologies. short­courses. For three years in Italian KDE blogger Giovanni Almost 600 participants filled out a row, KDE Brazil has been Venturi. the meeting and Forum KDE attending Latinoware. We have Brazil talks. All 50 places in the given talks and short­courses. Qt and Plasmoid Development

Left, An impromptu working group at the Latinoware conference. Right, When attending trade shows and other KDE meetings, users shared their experiences with the KDE software compilation. (Photos by KDE­Br.) Left, KDE users catching a moment of downtime at the Brazilian Northeast Meeting of Free Software (photo by KDE­Br). Right, KDE developers catching up with membes of the LibreOffice project (photo by Thomas Pyn).

This year, in a first initiative for a MEEGO CONFERENCE, to learn more about what better KDE integration Latin MeeGo is, how it works, and DUBLIN, IRELAND America, we had with us Ronny 15th 17th November 2010 what their parts are. Many in the Aizcorbe from KDE Peru, MeeGo community found out presenting a talk about "3D about what KDE is. Two MeeGo is an open source, Linux Development with Qt and KDE". communities encountering project which brings together the Additionally, six other talks and without colliding ­ this is just Moblin project, headed up by two short­courses put Qt/KDE­ great! Intel, and Maemo, by Nokia, into based mobile and games a single open source activity. development, KDE community, MeeGo integrates the LINUXDAY 2010, Plasma, and D­Bus in focus as experience and skills of two DORNBIRN, AUSTRIA part of the "3rd Forum KDE significant development 27 November 2010 Brazil ­ Latin­American Edition". ecosystems, versed in Just one week after the "3rd communications and computing The local KDE team attended Forum KDE Brazil ­ Northeast technologies. MeeGo currently the 12. LinuxDay in Dornbirn. Edition" (at ENSL 2010), KDE targets platforms such as They demonstrated KDE participation in Latinoware 2010 netbooks/entry­level desktops, software to potential new users, stood out with the presentation handheld computing and and talked about upcoming of "Two games in 40 minutes" communications devices, in­ features with more experienced talk, by Tomaz Canabrava, and a vehicle infotainment devices, users. Students were especially crowded booth helping people connected TVs, and media interested in KDE Edu discover the newest features of phones. applications. Furthermore, it was KDE. It was nice to meet again an excellent possibility to openSUSE fellows and our During the MeeGo Conference, intensify the cooperation with booth­neighbors gnomies :) KDE people had an opportunity other projects. KDE TECHNOLOGIES ARE USED EVERYWHERE. IN THE SERVER ROOM, ON THE DESKTOP, AND IN MOBILE PHONES.

Left, Users showcase KDE to interested attendees at LinuxDay 2010.

KDE eV Community Report | Issue 16 | 4th Quarter, 2010 ev.kde.org/reports 7 KDE AT GOOGLE CODE­IN us successfully on over 330 As prizes for their great work, Lydia Pintscher tasks in all areas of KDE. They Google awards each student have done impressive work $100 for every 3 successfully Google Code­in is a contest to including creating a video ad for completed tasks, up to a involve high­school students in the community, coding small and maximum of $500. We're Free Software projects. This much needed features for their especially proud to see some of year, Google selected 20 Free favorite program, and translating KDE's students among the 14 Software projects, among them software and documentation to grand prize winners who get a KDE, to be mentoring their mother tongues. The result trip to Google's headquarters in organizations. They provide of their work was much more California. easy, medium and hard tasks for than we could have dreamed of the students to work on in and their enthusiasm was We hope Google will run this different areas like translation, captivating. We hope many of contest again next year. Let's coding, outreach, documentation them have enjoyed the take part again in showing and quality assurance. experience enough to grow up to amazing kids how they can be fantastic Free Software make a difference in this world The contest started on 22nd contributors (not that they aren't by contributing to Free Software November 2010 and lasted for already after this contest). projects. 1.5 months. During this time, nearly 100 students worked with

OPEN SOFTWARE, OPEN DESIGN, OPEN CULTURE OPEN SOURCE IS MORE THAN JUST SOFTWARE. KDE IS ALSO HOME TO A VIBRANT COMMUNITY OF ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, HOBBYISTS, AND IDEALISTS. HERE ARE A FEW OF THE IMAGES THEY'VE SHARED WITH THE COMMUNITY.

Talbot ­ Johan B. ­ Belgium (Look:KDE). Winter Coast ­ Pera (Look:KDE). Rain on the Windshield ­ Maciek Komorowski ­ Poland (Look:KDE). Teardrop ­ Darya Naz (Gaia10).

Spring Thaw ­ GollyGForce ­ (Look:KDE, Flickr). Golden Shine ­Thierry (Gaia 10)

Gaia ­Victor van Gaasbeek (Gaia10). Odenwald Forest ­ JFest ­ Manheim, Germany (Look:KDE). NEW MEMBERS KDE e.V. is happy to welcome the following new members:

Alex Fiestas

Giovanni Venturi

Marta Rybczynska

Ryan Rix

Sjors Gielen

Thomas Thym

Thorsten Zachmann FINANCES KDE E.V. BOARD INCOME (€): Cornelius Schumacher Supporting membership: 2,575 President Akademy 2010 sponsorship: 17,500 Frank Karlitschek Google Summer of Code: 19,300 Vice President and Treasurer ALERT Research Project*: 7,975 Adriaan de Groot Donations: 5,840 Vice President Total: 53,190 Board Member EXPENSES (€): Sebastian Kügler Board Member Developer sprints: 6,175 Trade shows and marketing: 690 This report is published by KDE e.V., copyright 2010 Office and personel costs: 15,600 ONTACT Total: 22,465 Website: ev.kde.org Email: kde­ev­[email protected] AT THE END OF QUARTER 3, 2010, KDE E.V. HAD A POSITIVE BALANCE OF €265,840. Report Prepared By

Note: The financial numbers provded here are approximations and are provided for informational purposes only. For a Agata Marszalek complete accounting record, please contact the KDE e.V. directly. * ALERT is an EC­sponsored project to create a real time, collaboration platform for free and open source software Ben Cooksley development. (http://dot.kde.org/2010/11/23/kde­experts­needed­eu­research­project) Claudia Rauch Dinesh Sai Lydia Pintscher Sandro Andrade Stuart Jarvis Carl Symons Eugene Trounev Rob Oakes Thanks to the many other members of KDE who contributed to this report.

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