**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
**The KDE Network Kerala team**
# Aiswarya
# Subin
# Kannan
# Sreeram
# Akhil
**Meeting Minutes
21 January 2021**
- The team has decided to use the Malayalam channel for people in Kerala to contact the KDE Network Kerala team. Links for KDE Malayalam channel are: Matrix: #kde-ml:poddery.com and Telegram: https://t.me/kde_ml
- The server for KDE Malayalam Localization joined with Assam’s team (Wrishiraj). Translation has been delayed. Target: End of April translation. Malayalam and Assamese (Wrishiraj’s team) localization have joined hands together; both are in the same server now.
- Due to the server change, last month and examinations in universities next month Plasma workspace l10n target is delayed. The new target will be at the end of April.
- For the sponsorship, we were thinking to make a sponsorship form which Kerala team can submit to the Board of Directors (BoD) and keep them in the loop. BoD can be part of the virtual meetings with the sponsors or be informed about the whole process. Form: https://share.kde.org/s/9FtnakEcrTgrHyj
- For the sponsorship, it was suggested to make a sponsorship form which Kerala team can submit to the Board of Directors (BoD) and keep them in the loop. If possible, BoD can be part of the virtual meetings with the sponsors or be informed about the whole process. Aiswarya will discuss this with the team.
- GCompris will be part of the Pehia Annual Summit. Aiswarya will have an interview with the Pehia foundation’s team. It will be part of their blog. https://www.pehia.org/events/summit2021
- Aiswarya will share her experience with the Pehia Foundation. Aiswarya, Bhavisha and Aniqa will write an article based on Aiswarya’s interview for Planet KDE/Dot.
- Article on GCompris will be written by a teacher before 5 February 2021. Later, it will be published in the Local newspaper’s Educational Edition.
- Subin will be giving a talk on 22 January 2021 about FOSS at a college. Aiswarya will ask him to write an article to share his experience for Planet KDE.
- Universities, Colleges, and Schools have opened again in Kerala.
- The KDE Network’s marketing material will be used in English as most students in schools and colleges speak English.
- Documents and Wiki pages translation in Malayalam was not decided.
- KDE.org is the next target to translate in Malayalam.
**Next meeting:** Thursday, 18 March 2021
**Time: ** 2:00 pm UTC/ 3:00 pm CET/ 7:30 pm IST
**Link to Join: **https://meet.kde.org/b/ani-g0p-cmf
**Tasks/Agenda for the next meeting:**
- The sponsorship decision will be confirmed.
- The team will check whether documents and Wiki pages will be translated or not.
- Subin’s article will be shared on Planet KDE.
- Article on GCompris will be shared.
- Aiswarya’s interview/article will be shared.
- New targets will be shared.