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KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation behind the KDE community, is happy to present the KDE e.V. Community Report for 2017. The report gives a comprehensive overview of all that has happened during 2017. It covers the progress we have made with KDE's Plasma desktop environment; Plasma Mobile (KDE's graphical environment for mobile devices); and applications the community creates to stimulate your productivity, creativity, education, and fun. It also looks at KDE's activities during 2017, giving details on the results from community sprints, conferences, and external events the KDE community has participated in worldwide. You can also find out about the inner workings of KDE e.V., the foundation that legally represents the community. Check KDE's financial status and read up about the KDE e.V. board members, the different working groups, the Advisory Board, and how they all work together to keep KDE moving forward. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is happy to present the report for 2016. This report includes statements from the board, a featured article about the 20th anniversary of KDE, summaries about developer sprints and conferences supported by KDE e.V., statements from our Working Groups, development highlights for 2016, and some information about the current structure of KDE e.V. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is looking for a marketing professional to help KDE improve its marketing. Please see the call for proposals for more details about this contract opportunity. We are looking forward to your application. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is happy to present the report for the second half of 2015. This report covers July through December 2015, including statements from the board, reports from sprints and a feature article about The KDE Incubator. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is happy to present the report for the first half of 2015. This report covers January through June 2015, including statements from the board, reports from sprints and a feature article about conf.kde.in 2015. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is happy to present the report for the fourth quarter of 2014. This report covers October through December 2014, including statements from the board, reports from sprints and a feature article about the KDE participation in Google Summer of Code 2014. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is happy to present the report for the third quarter of 2014. This report covers July through September 2014, including statements from the board, reports from sprints and a feature article about the Visual Design Group. KDE e.V. is looking for an Executive Director to take the non-profit organization to the next level. The Executive Director is responsible for managing the business of KDE e.V. and shaping its future. To find out more about the opportunity please read the job ad. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is happy to present the report for the first and second quarter of 2014. This report covers January through June 2014, including statements from the board, reports from sprints and a feature article about Plasma 5. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is happy to present the fourth quarterly report of 2013. This report covers October through December 2013, including statements from the board, reports from sprints and a feature about KDE in Google Summer of Code and Google Code In. KDE e.V., the nonprofit organisation supporting the KDE community, is looking for an event manager for Akademy 2014 at the earliest possible date. If you are looking for the opportunity to drive the organisation of Akademy and bring together one of the greatest Free Software communities, please send us your application. More details about the job and how to apply can be found here.
KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is happy to present the second and third quarterly report of 2013. This report covers April through September 2013, including statements from the board, reports from sprints and a feature about the research project ALERT. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is happy to present the first quarterly report of 2013. This report covers January through March 2013, including statements from the board, reports from sprints and a feature about KDE India. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is happy to present the fourth quarterly report of 2012. This report covers October through December 2012, including statements from the board, reports from sprints, financial information and a feature about KDE Españia. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is happy to present the third quarterly report of 2012. This report covers July through September 2012, including statements from the board, reports from sprints, financial information and a report from this year's Akademy, our annual conference. This report also marks the 15th birthday of KDE e.V. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is happy to present the second quarterly report of 2012. This report covers April through June 2012, including statements from the board, reports from sprints, financial information and a special part about organizing Akademy, our annual conference. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is happy to present the first quarterly report of 2012. This report covers January through March 2012, including statements from the board, reports from sprints, financial information and a special part about the ALERT research project. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is happy to present the fourth quarterly report of 2011. This report covers October through December 2011, including statements from the board, reports from sprints, financial information and a special part about KDE's 15th birthday. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is happy to present the third quarterly report of 2011. This report covers July through September 2011, including statements from the board, reports from sprints, financial information and an interview with Lydia Pintscher about why KDE rocks at mentoring. A special report about the Desktop Summit and the annual General Assembly is included as well. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is happy to present the first quarterly report of 2011. This report covers January through March 2011, including statements from the board and the working groups of KDE e.V. about their activities, reports from sprints, financial information. A special report about conf.kde.in is included, and the KDE Free Qt Foundation makes a statement. KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is proud to publish the last quarterly report for 2010. This report covers October through December, 2010, including statements from the board and the working groups of KDE e.V. about their activities, reports from sprints, financial information and more. KDE e.V., the nonprofit organisation supporting the KDE community, is looking for a full-time intern for its Berlin office at the earliest possible date. If you are looking for an intern position for 3-6 months in an international non-profit organization, and want to help to organize the Berlin Desktop Summit, take care of the supporting membership program and work on promotional material, please send us your application. The position is an internship under regular German conditions. More details about the internship and how to apply can be found here.
The Desktop Summit is a co-located event which features the yearly contributor conferences of the GNOME and KDE communities, GUADEC and Akademy. Next year the conference will take place from 6 to 12 August, 2011 in Berlin at the Humboldt University, Unter den Linden 6. The event will feature keynotes, talks, workshops and team building events. The Desktop Summit website is now online. The GNOME and KDE communities develop the majority of Free Software desktop technology. Increasingly, they cooperate on underlying infrastructure. By holding their annual developer flagship events in the same location, the two projects will further foster collaboration and discussion between their developer communities. Moreover, KDE and GNOME aim to work more closely with the rest of the desktop and mobile open source community. The summit presents a unique opportunity for main actors to work together and improve the free and open source desktop for all. "We are proud to be able to welcome the participants of the Desktop Summit 2011 to the capital region next year," says Almuth Nehring-Venus, Permanent Secretary for Economics, Technology and Women's Issues from the Berlin Senate. "I hope that the joint conference of the two largest Free Desktop projects GNOME and KDE will provide an additional boost for our Open Source/Open Standard initiative within the framework of Berlin's IT strategy and therefore also to further high-value jobs in our region." At the Desktop Summit 2011, KDE and GNOME expect well over a thousand core contributors, prominent open source technology leaders, representatives from government, education and corporate backgrounds, and open source desktop engineers, usability experts and designers. Local and international IT industry are invited to learn about and join in developing the latest innovative desktop technology. The TSB Innovation Agency Berlin GmbH and the Berlin Senate are supporting the event locally. The registration for the Desktop Summit will open on 1 February 2011 and a call for papers will be issued. Talk submissions will be due on 15th of March and on 15 April the conference program will be announced. Saturday 6 August kicks off three days of joint keynotes, talks and social events followed by four days of collaborative workshops. The conference officially ends on Friday, 12 August with a closing. The Desktop Summit is a joint initiative by GNOME and KDE to encourage the development and use of a free desktop. The shared objectives include the exchange of technology, cooperation on projects and developing new opportunities with Free and Open Source Software on the desktop. The first Desktop Summit in 2009 was a huge success: More than 850 free software advocates from 46 countries gathered together in Las Palmas on Gran Canaria to discuss and enhance the free desktop experience. The summit accomplished its goal of increasing co-operation and throughout the conference there were many examples of improvements to current and development of new shared technologies. GNOME is a free-software project whose goal is to develop a complete, accessible and easy to use desktop for Linux and Unix-based operating systems. GNOME also includes a complete development environment to create new applications. It is released twice a year on a regular schedule. The GNOME desktop is used by millions of people around the world. GNOME is a standard part of all leading GNU/Linux and Unix distributions, and is popular with both large existing corporate deployments and millions of small business and home users worldwide. Composed of hundreds of volunteer developers and industry-leading companies, the GNOME Foundation is an organization committed to supporting the advancement of GNOME. The Foundation is a member directed, non-profit organization that provides financial, organizational and legal support to the GNOME project and helps determine its vision and roadmap. More information about GNOME and the GNOME Foundation can be found at http://www.gnome.org and http://foundation.gnome.org. KDE is an international community that creates Free Software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are innovative workspaces for Linux and UNIX platforms, the KDE Platform for rapid development and a comprehensive range of applications. KDE offers hundreds of software titles in many categories including communication and groupware, office producitvity, web applications, multimedia, entertainment, education, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. Applications built on KDE Platform 4 run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. KDE e.V. is a nonprofit association that represents the international community supported KDE operating legally, financially and organizationally. More informations about KDE and KDE e.V. can be found at http://www.kde.org and http://ev.kde.org. For further informations and interviews please contact us:
Tampere, Finland, 16th July, 2010. KDE met for its yearly flagship conference, Akademy, in Tampere, Finland. The event was kindly hosted by COSS, the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions. Akademy started last weekend with a two-day conference attended by more than 400 visitors from all over the world, which then blended into several days of designing, programming, discussing and working on the future of the Free Desktops. Important topics included mobile devices, community topics and many others.
During Akademy 2010, held in Tampere (Finland), KDE e.V. and KDE España signed an agreement making KDE España the official representative of KDE e.V. in its territory. The agreement highlights several of the key goals that KDE e.V. and KDE España share, that is, thepromotion of Free Software and KDE Software in particular, acting as an enabler for the community and the non profit nature of the organization. The position is an internship under regular German conditions
(Angemessene Bezahlung). We are looking for people with some
experience with event management, trade shows, fairs and
Free Software; someone enthusiastic and independent, with a
good command of the English language. A background or current
study in business or administration would be nice to have. The KDE e.V. and GNOME Foundation today announced that they
will hold their yearly conferences, Akademy and GUADEC in 2009 in Gran
Canaria. The conferences will be separate events, but co-located and
hosted by the same organizers, the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and its
Secretary of Tourism, Technological Innovation and Foreign Trade. The boards of KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foundation have issued a
call to co-host Akademy and GUADEC, the flagship conferences of the KDE
and GNOME projects respectively, during the Summer of 2009. After serving in the board for five years Eva Brucherseifer decided
to focus on other endeavors. At the General Assembly 2007 held in
Glasgow during aKademy Klaas Freitag was elected as her successor. The
other members of the board are Aaron Seigo who takes over the role of
president from Eva, Cornelius Schumacher who remains Vice President and
Treasurer, Adriaan de Groot as second Vice President and Sebastian
Kügler as additional board member. Thanks, Eva, for all the work you did for the e.V. in the last five
years, and welcome, Klaas, to the new board.
Mark Taylor, CEO, Sirius Corporation said: "KDE is a high-quality
desktop that has always had a strong following in the Open Source
community. By becoming a sponsor of the project, we now want to raise
its profile in the Enterprise."
Sebastian Kügler of the KDE e.V. Board
said: "KDE is happy to welcome
Sirius as one of Europe's leading Open Source experts in the circuit of
KDE's Supporting Members. For KDE, this agreement manifests the next
natural step in the improvement of relationships between KDE as the
leading Free Desktop and leaders in the Open Source industry."
KDE e.V. wishes to thank its current supporters, and would like to
invite all interested parties to
help us continue to serve the KDE community.About the Desktop Summit
About GNOME and the GNOME Foundation
About KDE and KDE e.V.
Offical contact Desktop Summit 2011
Mirko Boehhm, Spokesman
c/o KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH & Co. KG
Tempelhofer Ufer 11, D-10963 Berlin
phone +49 (0)30 - 5 21 32 54-70
http://www.desktopsummit.org
Press contact Desktop Summit (WORLD)
Jos Poortvliet, jos@opensuse.org
mobile +31(0)6 22 37 75 45
Press contact Desktop Summit (DACH)
Thomas Keup, thomas.keup@opencoffee.de
mobile +49(0)171 - 4 18 00 84
Organizer GNOME Foundation
Stormy Peters, Executive Director
e-mail: stormy@gnome.org
http://foundation.gnome.org/
Organizer KDE e.V.
Claudia Rauch, Business Manager
e-mail rauch@kde.org
http://ev.kde.org/
The KDE e.V. collects reports about its activities. Here you can find all the public reports.
The KDE e.V. holds a general assembly of its members each year. On this assembly reports about the activity of the e.V. are given, elections are held and decisions about matters of the e.V. are taken.