**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
**The Advisory Committee**
# Paul Brown
# Carl Schwan
# Ivana Isadora
# Niccolo Venerandi
# Kenny Coyle
# Julian Steinmann
# Kai Uwe
# Bhavisha Dhruve
# Tomaz Canabrava
**Meeting Minutes
20 August 2020 **
- Wrishiraj suggested:
- One-month training for students to reach out to more universities.
- We should create tutorials for teaching.
- We should contact students as well as teachers.
- Covid-19 is the biggest challenge in India right now.
- 4-5 people are interested in joining KDE.
- Guwahati University can be the first, one in the city to be targeted.
- We should target non-technical universities too.
- We can have completions to attract more people.
- We should focus on a practical approach rather than a philosophical approach.
- Aishwarya suggested:
- Kerala has potential. There are a lot of people in the Malayalam translation group who will be interested in joining KDE.
- We can also use Free Software Camp (https://camp.fsf.org.in/) to reach out to more people.
- Reaching out to the universities will be the second phase. The first phase is to start the program in India.
- Based on the discussion with Aishwarya and Wrishiraj it was decided to start KDE Network India from a city where we have more contributors.
- Either Bangalore or Kerala will be the first city to start the program.
- We have to focus on contacting people in Bangalore or Kerala who are KDE Contributors.
- Wrishiraj and Aishwarya will be part of the KDE Network India.
**Next meeting:** Thursday, 15 October 2020 at 5.00 pm UTC.
**Tasks/Agenda for the next meeting:**
- Aishwarya will connect us to Subin who is based in Kerala.
- Bhavisha will contact people in KDE India group.