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KDE e.V.

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KDE e.V.
Founded27 November 1997
FounderMatthias EttrichandMatthias Kalle Dalheimer
TypeEingetragener Verein,
NGO,
Non-profit organization
FocusFree software
Location
  • Berlin, Germany
Area served
Worldwide
Members
137 (active)[1]
Key people
Aleix Pol i Gonzàlez(President)
Employees
0
Websiteev.kde.org

KDE e.V.is a registerednon-profit organizationthat represents theKDEcommunity in the legal and financial entities. The association supports KDE’s work in cash, hardware, and other donations, and then the use of donations to help the KDE development, but not influence on development. "e.V." stands for "eingetragener Verein"which means" registered association ".[2]The three flags on top of the KDE e.V. logo represent the three main tasks of the KDE e.V.: supporting the community, representing the community, and governing the community.[3]

History

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In August 1997, KDE One was held inArnsberg,Germany. It's the first KDE community meeting with 15 participants, and budget is 14000 DEM (7158 EUR).Matthias Kalle Dalheimerrealized that it wasn't a good idea to channel thousands of money through his personal account to run the meeting, so he wanted to find an association.[4]In November 1997,Matthias Ettrichand Matthias Kalle Dalheimer registered KDE e.V. as association inTübingenunder German law, and became president and vice president. Additionally they had to reach out to housemates and personal friends to meet the minimum number of persons required to create an eingetragener Verein (7 persons).[5]

In October 1999, the following candidates were elected to the board in KDE Two,Kurt Granrothbecame president,Chris Schlägerbecame vice president,Mirko Boehmbecame treasurer, and Preston Brown became board member.[6]In August 2002, the following candidates were elected to the board in KDE e.V. meeting, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer became president,Mirko Boehmbecame treasurer, andEva BrucherseiferandRalf Noldenbecame board member.[7]

On 26 August 2005, the following candidates were elected to the board in KDE e.V. meeting, president was Eva Brucherseifer, vice president wasCornelius Schumacher,treasurer was Mirko Boehm, and board member was Aaron Seigo.[8]On 15 October 2006,Mark Shuttleworthhad become the firstPatron of KDE.[9]On 28 February 2007,Trolltechbecome the first corporatePatron of KDE.[10]

On 2 July 2007, the following candidates were elected to the board in KDE e.V. meeting, president was Aaron Seigo, vice president were Cornelius Schumacher andAdriaan de Groot,and board member wereSebastian KüglerandKlaas Freitag.[11]On 3 July 2007, KDAB becomesPatron of KDE.[12]On 7 July 2007, Intel Corporation and Novell had also becomePatron of KDE.[13]On 4 April 2008, the KDE e.V. and Wikimedia Deutschland have opened shared offices inFrankfurt,and has the first KDE e.V. employee.[14]

In July 2009, the following candidates were elected to the board in KDE e.V. meeting, Cornelius Schumacher became president, Adriaan de Groot andFrank Karlitschekbecame vice president, and Sebastian Kügler andCeleste Lyn Paulbecame board member.[15]In September 2009, KDE e.V. andFree Software Foundation Europe(FSFE) moved into shared offices inBerlin.[16]In January 2010, Google becomes supporting member.[17]On 9 June 2010, KDE e.V. launched the "Join the Game" campaign.[18][19]It promotes the idea of becoming a supporting member for individuals. It is made available for those who would like to support KDE, but do not have enough time to do so.Georg Greve,founder of theFree Software Foundation Europe(FSFE) was first to 'join the game'.[20]

Organization

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Current board of directors[21]
Occupation Name
President Aleix Pol González
Vice President Lydia Pintscher
Treasurer and Vice President Eike Hein
Board Member Neofytos Kolokotronis
Board Member Adriaan de Groot

KDE e.V. includes three types of memberships:Active members,Extraordinary membersandSupporting Members.Both natural persons and legal bodies may become members. TheActive membershave contributed to KDE community.[22]Thesupporting membersare supporting the KDE through financial contributions, consist of: basysKom GmbH, Digia,Sirius Corporation Ltd,andGoogle.ThePatron of KDEis the highest level of supporting member, are:SUSE,Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB,andNokia.[23]All association’s members are invited to attend the general assembly. The general assembly is often as part ofAkademy.[24]

The board of directors are responsible for the operation of the association. The board of directors has five members via election held by general assembly. KDE e.V. office is located in Berlin. It has 1 paid administrative employee, called business manager. The business manager is full-time responsible for daily operations, resource acquisition and managinginterns.KDE e.V. offers internships to qualified students.[25]In Spain, the official representative of KDE e.V. isKDE España.[26]KDE e.V. is an associate organization of the FSFE[27][28]and a licensee of theOpen Invention Network.[29][30]

Activities

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KDE e.V. organizes and subsidizes events including developer sprints,Camp KDEandAkademy.It handles the legal issues around the KDE community.[31]

The working groups are a structure which will formalize some roles within KDE and enhance coordination within KDE, communication between parts of KDE.[32]Currently, active working groups are community working group (CWG), marketing working group (MWG) and system administration (sysadmin). Disbanded working groups are human computer interaction working group (HCI WG) and technical working group (TWG).[33]

TheSystem Administration Working Groupis responsible for administration of KDE servers.[34]TheMarketing Working Groupwas founded in November 2005, help to coordination of marketing and promotion. Currently members are Troy Unrau, Franz Keferböck and Wade Olson.[35][36]TheCommunity Working Groupwas founded in August 2008, helps with community advice when needed.[37]

TheTechnical Working Groupis to coordinate planning and release. Furthermore, they should decide what software is included in KDE or removed, as different programs will be combined into modules and the dependencies between the modules and to external software should be allowed. A further task, it is a contact point for general technical questions related to KDE to be contacts between developers of the project and produce.[38]After one year, the Technical Working Group has been replaced by theRelease team,that is independent of KDE e.V..

References

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