**Goal**
Derived from our Promo goals. We want to increase our community and outreach in more countries, including:
- Brand awareness about KDE.
- Increase and engage new contributors.
- Increase the number of end-users.
**What is the KDE Network?**
The KDE Network will be a group of KDE representatives in their respective cities/countries. They promote KDE and it’s work in their local community. Additionally, they are responsible for helping to grow the community, and to act as a liaison between their local community and KDE.
Members of the KDE Network Group are Community Members who have agreed to help promote KDE. They use their knowledge of KDE and their public speaking skills or social networking skills or people skills to help promote KDE.
**What do they do?**
- Participate at local events on behalf of KDE.
- Request marketing material, swag, budget for events.
- Promote KDE, FLOSS, open source projects and cross-community interaction.
- Demonstrate KDE’s products.
- Community outreach and act as a liaison for contributors interested to become part of KDE.
- Promote KDE at local user groups and universities with talks, presentations etc.
- Recruit new contributors.
- Onboarding, mentoring and fostering new users and contributors.
- Report on the activities related to FLOSS in their region.
**Where are we located?**
The KDE Network will take place around the world, initially starting a pilot project in Guwahati, India.
**Documents**
All documents are also available here.
https://share.kde.org/s/G9Ro2z2gi4bMqmf
**Communication**
You can join the group through
Telegram:
https://t.me/joinchat/RdiLrhsDx3GaExUW2lqsLA
Matrix:
#kde-network-program:kde.org
IRC/Freenode:
#kde-network-program
**The Advisory Committee**
# Paul Brown
# Carl Schwan
# Ivana Isadora
# Niccolo Venerandi
# Kenny Coyle
# Julian Steinmann
# Kai Uwe
# Bhavisha Dhruve
# Tomaz Canabrava
**Meeting Minutes
29 October 2020 **
- Kannan on behalf of Aiswarya informed us:
- They were all busy due to the Free Software camp, other personal stuff etc. and couldn't meet during the last 2 weeks.
- GCompris translation is going well and will be finished by next week.
- They are planning to do a meeting and decide the action plan and calendar soon (dates not yet decided, target: next week).
- On the request of Aiswarya, we will meet every three weeks rather than every two weeks.
- As GCompris will be good to reach end users in Kerala. Paul suggested that we can translate GCompris Cookbook (Teachers’/Parents’ Guide) into Malayalam.
- From 1 January 2020 the KDE Network program in India should be rolled out.
- Members of the KDE Network India should join the main group so the advisory committee can support them in their processes.
**Next meeting:** Thursday, 29 October 2020
**Time: ** 2:00 pm UTC/ 3:00 pm CEST/ 7:30 pm IST
**Link to Join: **https://meet.kde.org/b/ani-g0p-cmf
**Tasks/Agenda for the next meeting:**
As the tasks from the last meeting were not fulfilled, we will focus to get this done:
- Develop the plan for the KDE Network India.
- Maintain the calendar for both technical and non-technical events, developers and end-users.
- Start preparing the documents that might be required for starting the program.
- To make a list of items we need for starting the program and if required translate it.