These days we are celebrating aspecial anniversary. I t's the fifteenthanniversary of KDE e.V., theorganization behind the KDECommunity.

On November 26th 1997, MatthiasEttrich, Kal le Dalheimer and MartinKonold got together at Matthias'sstudent flat to found an associationaccording to German law. Thisorganization would represent andsupport the community of the smallbut growing software project they hadstarted a year earl ier. They draggedin their roommates and girlfriends toreach the minimum number of sevenfounding members. After somespeeches they formally decided thefirst articles of association of KDE e.V.Further details about what happenedat this historical event got lost overtime, but rumors say that it involveddiscussions about C++ and packetradio.

From today's perspective, it'sremarkable the foresight and visionthe founders of KDE e.V. demonstratedby putting a formal organizationbehind the young open source projectKDE. This certainly wasn't an easystep, but it proved to be a pivotalelement in growing and sustaining thecommunity over one and a half

decades. The agreement with theowners of Qt to ensure the freedomof the toolkit, running ten global KDEconferences, organizing many dozensof developer sprints, owning thetrademark, maintaining an office andan employee to support thecommunity, al l this wouldn't havebeen possible without KDE e.V.

Just recently we saw a demonstrationof what's possible in the KDEcommunity with the Randa meeting, acombination of sprints taking place inthe sol itude of the Swiss mountains.Mario Fux, the restless organizer ofthese meetings, brought togetherpeople from the accessibil ity,education, multimedia, and workspacecommunities to work on their projectsfor a week of concentratedcol laboration. To make this possible,KDE e.V. ran a donation campaign;the result went beyond our wildestdreams. Our friends and supportersdonated more than €10,000 tosupport volunteer contributors toattend this event and spend valuableface-to-face time working together onfree software. You can read moreabout the meeting in this quarterlyreport. I 'm humbled to be part of acommunity that makes something l ikethis possible. Thank you so much.

Final ly I want to applaud anotherachievement of the community, thecreation of the KDE Manifesto. As theresult of a process over a number ofyears to understand the core of thecommunity and what defines ouridentity as KDE, the KDE Manifestohas been written and is publ ished athttp://manifesto.kde.org. For thosewho are famil iar with KDE, there areno surprises, but it is a concretecommunity artifact that defines whowe are, and makes it expl icit to usand everybody else. I t's a reminderand guidel ine for KDE and also for thework we do in KDE e.V.

On this fifteenth anniversary, we lookback with pride, celebrating one ofthe largest and longest- l ivedcommunities in the Free Softwareworld, and look forward to the futurewith curiousity and confidence.

On the next fifteen years of KDE andKDE e.V.!

Cornelius Schumacher

for the KDE e.V. Board of Directors

WELCOME MESSAGE

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AKADEMY 2012Carl Symons and Kenny Duffus

For most of the year, KDE—one of the largest FOSScommunities in the world—works onl ine by email ,IRC, forums and mail ing l ists. But every summer,Akademy, the Community conference, provides al lKDE contributors the opportunity to meet in person tofoster social bonds, work on concrete technologyissues, and reinforce the innovative, dynamic cultureof KDE.

This year, nearly 300 hackers grabbed their badgesat the Estonian IT Col lege in Tal l inn and launchedAkademy 2012 on 30 June. “Freedom ofExpression”—the opening keynote by MathiasKlang—got things going quickly with his urgent cal l toaction for those who stand for freedom, which oftendisappears gradual ly and in a slow creep.

The First Day

During the first day of Akademy, there were sessionson release management, Plasma Active, and thefuture of KDE and Qt technologies. Highl ights weretalks about the Frameworks 5 efforts and Aaron Seigopainting the possibil ities of A New Hope for OpenDevices: the awesome Vivaldi tablet and what's tocome.

Several KDE GSoC students attended Akademy; 7 ofthese students presented their projects in l ightningtalks in the main conference track. The projectsincluded work on the Plasma Media Center, theastronomy software KStars, and the speechrecognition project Simon.

During the first day, people got in some hacking andsocial izing, and the social part of Akademy real ly

took off on Saturday night. A local band provided rockmusic from Estonia, which led natural ly into the KDEkaraoke tradition. At the end of the party, everyonewas on stage to sing the final song "Imagine".

The Second Day

Sunday, the second day of the conference, startedwith a keynote by Thiago Macieira about Qt ProjectAchievements and How KDE Is Helping. There weretalks on the recent developments in KDE Plasma'sWindow Manager (KWin), and the work of KDE e.V.(the non-profit foundation that supports the KDECommunity). Other presentations ranged frompromoting an open source project and preservingfreedom of use to specific appl ications and topicareas.

The second Sunday keynote was Wil l Schroeder’s talkabout Open Science and Research. He suggested thatopen source is the most effective way to get thingsdone through agile, col laborative innovation. In thepast, science was open, critical ly reviewed and widelyavailable. Results were shared and new innovationscould build on previous discoveries. I t is now largelyclosed and restricted by patents. Free and openaccess to information has benefits in al l fields, not justsoftware. In science, being open was once standardpractice. Schroeder suggested that it's time to returnto sharing information openly.

On Sunday afternoon, the traditional Akademyawards were presented to people whose work anddedication were especial ly important to KDE over thepast year. The organization award went to Laur Mõtusand the entire volunteer team for organizing a

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wonderful Akademy. The non-application award wentto Lydia Pintscher for the unbelievable amount ofwork she puts into KDE, especial ly the effort and careshe lavishes on the Google Summer of Code and theSeason of KDE, in addition to being an active KDE e.V.Board member. Kévin Ottens and Nicolás Alvarezreceived the Jury award together. Their work on thefuture of KDE has long term value and importance.Nicolás received the award for his work on theconversion of KDE projects to git, Kévin wasrecognized for his work on KDE Frameworks 5, givinga new lease of l ife to KDE applications and desktop.Camil la Boeman received the Application Award inrecognition of her work on Cal l igra Words. In the pasttwo years, she has brought together a team ofdevelopers spread from Europe to India who arededicated to Cal l igra Words, and the team deliveredthe first release.

Workshops and BoFs

From Monday onwards, it was time for the communityto focus in smaller teams on specific topics during theinformal Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions, workshopsand courses. The legal organization behind the KDECommunity held a meeting. A comprehensive Qttraining session and a "PR for Free Software Projects"workshop took place on Monday.

The Akademy environment supports getting thingsdone. I t's possible to condense weeks or even monthsof work into a few days. The wide range of BoFsessions were especial ly productive. Topics rangedfrom “R&D projects in KDE” to “Plasma Activeapplication writing” and “KDE Frameworks”. SomeBoFs introduced new opportunities; others were

intensive working sessions. "We did some major workdiscussing and defining the fundamental issues of theKDE Community. We simply could not have done thiswithout being together in person." said one attendee.The results of the hands-on BoF sessions wil l appearin a variety of ways—application improvements, newand invigorated contributors, new initiatives and more,l imited only by people’s imaginations.

About Akademy

Almost al l communication between KDE communitymembers happens onl ine, and includes people fromall around the world. At Akademy, KDE people meeteach other and work together in person. Virtualcommunication is necessary and valuable for day-to-day work; working face-to-face is much moreeffective. And Akademy provides much more thanthat. Strong, lasting friendships developed here makeit easier to work together onl ine in the future. Oneperson's strongest impression came from the Fridaypre-registration event "seeing people again. Andwatching new friendships being made." Anotherperson said, "Until now I only knew people by theirIRC nicknames. Now I've met them and also becameknown to them for what I 'm contributing."

Akademy is fun; it's a pleasure working hard withother committed people. People also enjoyed meetingover lunch or dinner away from Akademy to discussand plan, or just to get better acquainted. Somepeople took a break from computers and madeGeary plush toys based on the Akademy 2012mascot. Being around other committed KDE peoplehelps recharge energy and rediscover inspiration.That’s why Akademy is such an important event forthe whole KDE community.

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DeveloperSprints

KDE ON WINDOWS

OSNABRÜCK, GERMANY

August

Patrick Spendrin

The meeting started on Thursdayevening when the Patricks(Spendrin and von Reth) arrived inOsnabrück. On Friday morning,the others arrived and wecontinued to discuss and hack. Inthe evening, KDAB sponsored adinner in a Bavarian-stylerestaurant. After dinner we wentback to the Intevation office andhacked a bit more.

This time we had 7 participantswith a lot of different interests andbackgrounds. Andre Heineckemaintains the Kontact builds forWindows, Boudewijn Remptattended to improve Cal l igra andKrita, Fabian Aichele showed us hiswork on integrating Windowsmenus and shel l actions with KDE,Andy Holzammer worked onseveral tasks related to Qt5 onWindows, Patrick von Reth set upthe new buildserver and gotMySQL building with mingw-w64,Dominik Schmidt worked on crosscompil ing Windows applicationsunder Linux with the help of OBSand I "have been slacking" (Iworked to get emerge into bettershape).

On Saturday we had a niceintroduction to Qt5 and itsdevelopment process by Andy. Ispoke about KDE Frameworks andhow this wil l affect KDE onWindows. In the afternoon, we hada Google Hangout with AndriusRibas who is based in Brazil andcouldn't attend in person. In theevening, we enjoyed an Arabian-

style dinner that was sponsoredby KO GmbH. This evening wassomewhat of a social event; weplanned it to be a releaseparty—even before the KDE 4.9.0release ;-) And as could beexpected from hackers, wecouldn't resist going back to workafter that, and some peoplestayed late into the night.

On Sunday, we started an hourlater with presentations fromFabian (lots of cool features for theKDE start menu and the file openmenu in Dolphin); Dominik showedus how to cross compileTomahawk on Linux. After morehacking, Fabian left first becausehe had one of the longer journeys,and then one by one al l theparticipants had to leave.

Thank you to Andre Heinecke andIntevation for organizing a real lynice sprint and giving us a placeto hack and discuss. Thanks alsoto KDE e.V., KO and KDAB forcovering the trip and the hotelcosts.

RANDA MEETING

RANDA, SWITZERLAND

21 -27 September 2012

Carl Symons

In September, several teams met inRanda, Switzerland for the fourthsuch Sprint Intensive. As expected,there was substantial progress asthe teams worked on theirindividual projects and acrossprojects. The work done at theRanda meetings involves bothfuture-oriented discussions anddetailed bug fixing and coding, al ldone ultimately to del ight KDEusers.

Each of the project teams -Accessibil ity (a1 1y), Plasma, KDEEdu and Multimedia - haveprovided a synopsis of their

accomplishments below. Theactual results of their work wil lappear in future versions of KDEsoftware.

Accessibil ity

This was the first big KDE meetingfor the KDE Accessibil ity Team.This face-to-face meeting helpedteam members discuss andunderstand many complex issuessuch as the inter-processcommunication and protocols. Wewere happy to have a guest,Alejandro Piñeiro from the GNOMEAccessibil ity team.

Peter Grasch and Yash Shahfocused on Simon, AmandeepSingh continued polishing hisGoogle Summer of Codeproject—Focus Tracking in KWin /KMagnifier—and helped out inother areas. José Mil lán Sotoworked on several things toimprove the screen-readerexperience. Frederik Gladhorncreated a new library(QAccessibil ityCl ient) andcontributed on several other thingsas well .

Most of the time was spent fixingissues so that appl ications workbetter with the Orca screen readerand KMag. We fixed severalcrashes and made many smallthings run smoother. Albert AstalsCid helped make it possible tohave translations for qt-at-spi,which wil l make things a lot betterfor screen reader users. This alsomakes adding accessibil ityfeatures easier for applicationdevelopers.

In Simon, the AT-SPI (AssistiveTechnology Service ProviderInterface) plugin prototype wascompletely rewritten using the newQAccessibil ityCl ient l ibrary. Tokeep up with elements on thescreen that change rapidly,performance issues across al l of

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Simon’s core infrastructure wereaddressed, including furtheroptimizing the model cachinglayer and introducing a moreefficient synchronization protocol .

Dozens of bugfixes, a new DBuscontext condition and more workon face-detection rounded out avery productive week.

Plasma

The Plasma team worked to reachcritical mass for creating Plasma2,the successor to the currentPlasma framework that buildsKDE's Workspaces. The teamstarted by making a l ist of tasksthat ranged from minor issues inthe API to design issues that affectalmost al l Plasma classes. Theythen got to work, quickly making abig dent in the l ist, knocking offone task after another. Patcheswere written, reviewed, revisedand committed. Bugs were fixedleft and right.

Plasma2 is the next version of thePlasma framework. I t employsQML for its user interface (thussimplifying development) and wil lbe extendable through C++,Python, Ruby and other languagesthat provide Qt bindings. Plasma2makes it possible to move toOpenGL-based scenegraphrendering, which can be done

entirely in graphics hardware.Compared to the currentframework, this wil l providesmoother visuals and significantlyless CPU usage. Libplasma2 wil lalso be a lot leaner than itspredecessor, resulting in decreasedl ibrary size on disk and inmemory. This wil l be useful, alongwith KDE Frameworks 5, incontexts where not al l of the KDEPlatform is required, makingpossible wider adoption of KDEtechnology.

KDE Edu

In preparation for the Randa sprint,some topics for discussion weredefined ahead of time. To begin atRanda, the KDE Edu teamdiscussed questions and issuesthat wil l guide the path of theproject. Face-to-face discussionswith other developers were helpfulfor proposing new features andgetting good feedback on them.Several KDE Edu applications gotnew features. And there weremany bug fixes anddocumentation enhancements.Developers also presented theirplans for future versions of theirappl ications. The team worked onplans for how the overal l KDE Eduproject wil l go forward under ful lsteam.

Interactions with other teams werehelpful, such as the discussionsabout Plasma Active and othermobile platforms. Work started onan instal ler for KDE Edu onWindows.

Multimedia Team

The KDE Multimedia team tookstock of progress and planned forthe year ahead. Lots of bug-squashing was done in Phonon-GStreamer—open bugs went fromover 45 to less than 8! ThePhonon 5 API was designed alongwith implementation of Qt Quicksupport for the upcoming releaseof Phonon 4 and its backends. TheKMix 3 rewrite is in progress, andthe new Sound Menu wil l bereleased in the next major KDEsoftware release.

The Amarok team designed the2.7+ architecture, which wil l guidethe team into the next big leapinto the future—Amarok 3. Nowthe roadmap is no longer justgood ideas, but rather real planswith developers committed to theirown timelines. The team puttogether a fundraising appeal, andupdated the Amarok Handbook to2.6. For more information onRanda Multimedia, see the KDECommunity Wiki.(http://community.kde.org/Sprints/Randa/2012/Multimedia)

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SYSADMIN MINI-SPRINT

ESSEN, GERMANY

28-30 September

Tom Albers

At the end of September, twomembers of the KDE sysadminand webteam, Tom Albers andIngo Malchow met up at theLinuxhotel in Essen, Germany for amini-sprint.

On the first day, we started aGoogle Hangout with BenCooksley and spent the morningworking together. The first matterwe needed to address was thestart of the User Working Group(UWG). We had set up the site amonth previously and it was readyfor prime time. You can read aboutit on the UWG website,http://ev.kde.org/workinggroups/uwg.php. There is also a forum.

Next, Ingo and I caught up onsome work within the sysadminand web teams. We started byevaluating the main site. Last yearat the WebWorld meeting, wedecided that the new site shouldbe revamped and we chooseWordPress as the ContentManagement System. Now, a yearlater, that site is sti l l not l ive. Sinceresources are lacking, wediscussed switching fromWordPress to Drupal . Changing thetool does not magical ly make thesite, but it does make itmaintainable. Several other KDEsites (e.g. dot.kde.org andbehindkde.org) are already basedon Drupal . So a theme is ready,and the focus can be on gettingthe content right.

Over dinner, we continued tobrainstorm and discussedbugs.kde.org. Basical ly it needs tobe spl it up into crashes, wishesand bugs. Then it needs to bedecided if bugzil la is the right

choice for each of thosecategories. We decided to create aplanning document for the futureof bugs.kde.org.

Another big item for discussionwas the future of subversion. Orrather, the lack of future forsubversion. The sysadmin teamcurrently maintains completeinfrastructures for both subversionand for git, which is a waste ofresources even though KDE is abig project. At this time, a singleserver is divided in two, onereviewboard for svn; one for git,anonsvn and anongit servers.Commit hooks for svn and for gitare written in completely differentlanguages. Subversion needs to beshut down at some point. I t doesnot need to be done immediately,but there should be a definite datefor it to happen. We wil l draft aproposal and present it forfeedback.

On Day 2 over breakfast, Ingoreported that identity.kde.orgsuffers from an enormous amountof spam sign-ups. These can bespl it into two groups. One hassign-ups that are done by bots.Most web sites implement aCAPTCHA to thwart them, there isalso a service cal ledstopforumspam.com. Directly afterbreakfast, I looked at the API,wrote some code and BenCooksley merged it intoidentity.kde.org. We wil l monitorthe site to see if that wil l help.

The second group is not real lyspam sign-ups. They are done bypeople who want to postsomething on forum.kde.org, butthey are not interested in anyother services and use anickname as ful l name. It is hardto distinguish between these twogroups. We brainstormed a bitabout how to solve this, but didn'tcome up with a workable solution.

In the afternoon we settled in thegarden. Though it was a bit cold, itwas very pleasant. We worked onsetting up the Drupal instance forthe main site. Ingo explained thestructure we should use for thewebsite. I started and wil l continueto work on it.

This was a productive meeting.Though it was a mini-sprint, itproduced great results. I regainedsome motivation, had a great timeand have a reasonable idea aboutwhat we should focus on. Manythanks to Ingo for hanging outwith me for 2 days, to theLinuxhotel for providing the bestpossible environment to work inand to KDE e.V. for making itpossible!

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Trade Shows andCommunity Events

KDE E.V. ANNUAL GENERAL

ASSEMBLY

TALLIN, ESTONIA

3 July 2012

Every year, the members of KDEe.V. meet for the Annual GeneralAssembly (AGM) of theAssociation. Traditional ly, thishappens during Akademy and2012 was no exception. The AGMis one of the key aspects of theAssociation and is the highestdecision-making body of KDE e.V.The meeting also serves as anopportunity to look back on whatKDE e.V. has achieved during thepast 12 months and to discussfuture plans and chal lenges for theorganization.

Reports

First on the agenda, after theelection of a chairman for themeeting (Frederik Gladhorn), werethe reports from the Board and theTreasurer of the Association. ThePresident of KDE e.V., Cornel iusSchumacher spoke about theresponsibil ities of the Boardmembers. They manage thebusiness for KDE e.V. and decideabout the budget. Each Boardmember is individual ly entitled torepresent the e.V. legal ly.

Cornel ius then gave an overviewof al l of the activities that havehappened between August 201 1and July 2012. KDE e.V. organizesand supports many events everyyear. In addition to the KDECommunity conference cal led

"Akademy", which took place aspart of the Desktop Summit inBerl in in 201 1 and in Tal l inn thisyear, there were 12contributor/developer sprints thathappened over the past 12months. In addition, the firstLaKademy—a meeting of the LatinAmerican KDE community—tookplace in April 2012 in Brazil , andwas financial ly supported by KDEe.V..

Other KDE e.V. activities includehandl ing of the KDE domainstogether with the KDE Sysadminteam, membership in otherorganizations l ike the OASISConsortium or the Open SourceInitiative. The Board, the KDE e.V.Business Manager and KDE e.V.members raise funds for theorganization to be able to sustainits activities.

Next up was a report by theinterim Treasurer Agustín BenitoBethencourt. He presented theannual results for 201 1 . The totalassets on 31 December 201 1amounted to €157,749. For 2012,the Board projects a budget of€164,000 in income and the sameamount in expenses.

The Board projects less income for2012 than there was in previousyears. Consequently, expenseshave already been reduced andwil l be reduced further over theupcoming months. The Board andcommunity members are alsoworking to increase revenue, withmeasures such as an Economic

Working Group and an increase inthe number of supportingmembers.

After the Treasurer's report theauditors of accounting—MirkoBöhm and AlexandraLeisse—informed the assemblythat they found no irregularities inthe accounting and that the boardhad done their work correctly.Mirko then asked the assembly todischarge the Board of theirresponsibil ities which passed witha vote of 81 in favor and 12abstentions (including the boardmembers).

The stage then belonged to theworking groups within KDE e.V.:the Marketing Working group, theSysadmin team, the CommunityWorking Group, and the KDE e.V.delegates to the KDE Free QtFoundation.

Elections

Every KDE e.V. board member iselected for three years. This year,the term of board member CelesteLyn Paul came to an end. Thus,her seat and the seat of FrankKarl itschek who stepped down atthe beginning of 2012 were up forelection. There were threecandidates: Albert Astals Cid,Agustín Benito Bethencourt, andPradeepto Bhattacharya.

In a secret bal lot, Agustín andPradeepto received the most votesand are now members of the KDEe.V. Board of Directors.

The assembly also re-electedMirko Böhm and Alexandra Leisseas auditors of accounting, andMartin Konold and Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer were re-elected torepresent KDE e.V. in the KDE FreeQt Foundation.

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FISL 13

PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL

25-29 July

Fil ipe Saraiva

FISL 13 is the biggest event relatedto Free Software and Free Culturein Brazil . In fact, it is one of thebiggest events of its kind in theworld. FISL has thousands ofparticipants (7709), hundreds oflectures (584), community events,workshops, community booths,speeches, and widespreadhacking.

Of course, the KDE communitywas present with an interestingprogram. Our booth drew muchattention and stood out in the areatargeting user/developer groups.We had KDE souvenirs l ike T-shirts,stickers, and pins, with specialemphasis on brooches with

Brazil ian regional representationsof Konqi and a bannercommemorating the 15thanniversary of KDE. We also hadsome computers with KDE forpeople to see and experience oursoftware.

But what real ly drew attention wasKonqi in a fantasy costumecommissioned by TomazCanabrava. I t is huge with acharismatic and good-naturedface. Wearing it is quite achal lenge, and two people arerequired to assist the “pilot” put iton. Inside is very hot, it's almostimpossible to see, and moving isalso not that easy. But it is fun forpeople to see a huge greendragon dancing and walking thehal ls. And it makes a geatimpression of KDE.

The main Konqi pilot was TomazCanabrava, but many people tookturns giving l ife to our mascot, l ikeWagner, me and a couple of otherpeople who appeared out ofnowhere asking if they could be abig, charismatic, green dragon fora while.

When he was not walking anddancing around, Konqi sat on twochairs in our booth. People tookpictures with him for a reminderof KDE and FISL. Our stand

became a focal point for childrenwho looked admiringly at ourdragon. They got presents ofchocolate and blue and whitebal loons.

We were on the event schedulewith an extensive program oflectures and courses, plus “specialguests”, especial ly with activitiesof Free Software and Educationgroups. Some of our highl ightswere the lecture and workshop ofsebas (Sebastian Kügler). Sebas,together with Daker Pinheiro, helda workshop on developingapplications for multiple devicesusing KDE Plasma technology. Twodays later, he presented PlasmaActive, the KDE Workspace fortablets, and talked about theplatform. There were severalquestions including KDE's plans forthe future of free software in thegrowing environment of mobilecomputing.

We also organized a pre-KDE 4.9Release Party at the Penguin’s Bar=D where we had a few drinks,relaxed and chatted.

In retrospect, FISL 13 was verygood for KDE Brazil . We gave KDEgood visibil ity, set up a real ly coolbooth, presented an excel lentprogram.

Photo courtesy of Fil ipe Saraiva

New Members

KDE e.V. is happy to welcomethe fol lowing new members:

- El i MacKenzie

- Georg Greve

- Gil les Caul ier

- Jure Repinc

- Kåre Alexander Särs

- Kevin Scannel

- Laszlo Papp

- Ludovic Grossard

- Marek Laane

- Rohan Garg

- Shantanu Tushar Jha

- Trever Fischer

- Vishesh Handa

- Yuri Chornoivan

New patron

We are pleased to welcome ournew patron:

Blue Systems GmbH

Finances Q3 2012

INCOME (€):Donations: 47,395

Corporate Supporters: 37,518

Individual Supportive Membership Program: 17,455

Akademy Sponsorship: 64,977

Others: 1 ,103

Total : 168,448

EXPENSES (€):Personnel/administration/office: 49,756

Sponsorships for fl ights/accomodation for Akademy/sprints/events/meetings: 46,937

Akademy organization: 8,1 70

Other expenses: 8,564

Total : 1 1 3,427

QUARTERLY RESULT (3Q2012) 55,021 €

AT THE END OF THE THIRD QUARTER OF 2012, KDE E.V. HAD A POSITIVE BALANCE OF 268,028 €

Note: The rounded financial numbers are for information only. The l ists do not include al l income and expenses and don'tconstitute an accurate accounting statement.

Sysadmin Report

Created 27 subversion accountsDisabled 2 subversion accountsCreated 1 kdemail .net al ias

Created 10 kde.org al iasesDisabled 2 kde.org al iasesModified 2 kde.org al iasesCreated 3 kde.org mail ing-l ists:

- cal l igra-author- nepomuk-bugs- kde-uwg

Financial support

If your company is interested in providing financial support to the KDEcommunity on a continuing basis, please visit the Supporting Members pageon the KDE e.V. website, http://ev.kde.org/getinvolved/supporting-members.php

If you would l ike to support KDE financial ly as an individual, please visit theindividual supporting membership program site at http://jointhegame.kde.org.

KDE E.V. BOARDCornel ius Schumacher - President

<schumacher@kde.org>

Sebastian Kügler - Vice President<sebas@kde.org>

Agustín Benito Bethencourt - Treasurer<abenito@kde.org>

Pradeepto Bhattacharya - Board Member<pradeepto@kde.org>

Lydia Pintscher - Board Member<lydia@kde.org>

Report prepared by:

Carl Symons

Claudia Rauch

Jorge Cacho

Thanks to the other KDE membersand supporters who contributed to

this report.

This report is publ ished by KDE e.V.,copyright 2012, and l icensed under

Creative Commons-BY-3.0(creativecommons.org/l icenses/)