KDE COMMUNITY REPORT 3RD QUARTER, 2010 | ISSUE 15 WELCOME MESSAGE The third quarter of 2010 started these students attended Akademy. platform. Nokia delivered a new off with Akademy in bright and We see ongoing growth in the Qt 4.7 with Qt Quick support, sunny Tampere, Finland. For nine number of contributors to the KDE Amarok 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 step, 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 Free Software 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 Picasa or Nikon Project.