CONTENTSWelcome Message 1

Organizing Akademy 2

Supported member activities 4 – 7

New Members 8

Financial Report and KDE e.V. Board 9

COMMUNITY REPORT2ND QUARTER 2012 | ISSUE 22

Dear KDE members, contributors,users, supporters, patrons, sponsorsand friends,

We are coming back from a successfulAkademy 2012 in Tal l inn, Estonia. Theevent commenced with a befitting talk“Freedom of Expression” by MathiasKlang; “freedom of expression” is atrait that has embodied KDE since itsbeginning. I t was fol lowed by anexcel lent two day line-up of talks. Themain conference was fol lowed by adiverse and interesting array of BoFsessions and workshops. The KDE e.V.Annual General Meeting also washeld. Usual social gatherings andbrainstorming over dinner and drinkshave always been part of Akademy.This year was the same with manyattendees gathering around the OldTown area for their dinner. A moredetailed report about Akademy 2012and the Annual General meeting wil lbe published in the report for the thirdquarter.

Akademy has changed since I firstattended it in 2006 in Dublin.Akademy back then had a lot more oflong hacking hours with the labs openal l night. After the main conference,contributors hacked away to glory al l

night only to return after few hours ofsleep to continue working from wherethey left off. Since then, a lot haschanged. We now have regular sprintspretty much al l year around.

One such sprint is the Randa meeting.In fact, it has become the mostintense and largest KDE sprint. In 201 1 ,the event saw participation by 40 KDEcontributors from around the worldcoming together to plan, design,create and work on their favorite KDEprojects. The Randa sprint is beingorganized by our own KDE heroMario Fux who puts in enormouseffort to get this event right andproductive. For seven days,contributors participating in the Randaevent forget worrying about food,water or beer. They do exactly onething. Contribute. Occasional ly theytake breaks to hike around thewonderful mountain trails in Randa,admire the majestic Matterhorn andget inspired. This year, over 30 KDEpeople wil l be in Randa for a week tohack on various projects includingAccessibil ity, Education, Multimediaand Plasma Workspaces. KDE e.V. andits Board wholeheartedly support theRanda sprint. To help with l imitedbudget requirements, funds have to be

raised. A Pledgie campaign(http://pledgie.com/campaigns/18045)is available to help achieve this goal .Please spread the word about thiscampaign and donate if you can.

Speaking of changing times, a veryimportant one is the upcoming newownership of Qt. Recently Nokiaannounced that it is sel l ing its Qtbusiness to Digia. Congratulations toKDE e.V. supporting member Digia onacquiring Qt Software. We wish themall the best in taking Qt to evenhigher levels of success and adoption.The KDE Project is also committed toQt's success. We are looking forwardto working with the new owners of QtSoftware and al l the other partners inthe Qt Project. We expect a brightfuture. Also, thank you to Nokia for al lthe support you have given us al lthese years.

Here’s wishing everybody a happyreading of the second QuarterlyReport for 2012 and HappyContributing!

Pradeepto Bhattacharya for the KDEe.V. Board of Directors.

WELCOME MESSAGE

ORGANIZING AKADEMYClaudia Rauch

Once a year the KDE community gets together for itsannual summit, Akademy. This non-commercialconference takes place in a different European cityevery year. I t is organized by a volunteer team ofboth local and remote members, supported andcoordinated by KDE e.V. and its Berl in office.

Getting a large conference for 300-400 internationalparticipants off the ground is no small feat. The workbegins roughly a year before the event actual ly takesplace. Although, after 10 years of Akademy, the KDEcommunity is quite experienced in running this event,it sti l l is a time-consuming effort that requires hardwork and a lot of attention to details.

The first step is finding a location. KDE e.V. puts out acal l for hosts and selects a suitable venue and city.Usual ly, Akademy takes place at a university as theycan provide the infrastructure that is needed for theconference at a low cost: big lecture hal ls and smaller

classrooms, technical infrastructure, and a cafeteriathat can feed several hundred hungry hackers. Theyare well connected to public transport and aregeneral ly a friendly environment for our community.

Then, a budget has to be planned: what are the costsfor organizing such an event? In the case ofAkademy, a large part of the budget goes towardsthe travel sponsorship program for attendees thatotherwise wouldn't have the resources to come to

Akademy. Money is also needed to take care oforganizational things l ike cleaning service for thevenue, a printer to print name badges, snacks andcoffee to keep the volunteers happy, printing postersand other small things.

Covering the event costs and the travel program inturn requires finding sponsors for the event. We havealways been quite fortunate to find companies fromthe KDE and Qt ecosystem that value Akademy andhelp us to fund the event and the travel support forour community members.

Equal ly as important as a good venue are the peoplebehind the conference - the organizing team. Withoutthe hard work of the team working mainly in theirspare time, Akademy wouldn't happen at al l . There

are countless tasks that needto be taken care of once thevenue is selected. Details l ikemaking sure the universitycafeteria is open during theconference and that there isfood choices for al l diets,researching suppliers for t-shirts, posters and banners,finding local sponsors,organizing social eventlocations, and finding suitableaccommodation forattendees.

In addition to the work thathas to be done "on theground", there is a lot moregoing on. Of course, theconference needs a websitewith a program, a registrationinterface and generalinformation about theconference, its location and

more. A program committee drafts a cal l for papersand puts together a program. The word to get out:blog articles and press releases have to be written,and more.

Once Akademy starts there is sti l l a lot to do. You canimagine that the devil is in the details: themicrophones for the speakers won't work if thebatteries are dead, and if there is no coffee or waterreadily available at the conference venue, attendees

Photo courtesy of Matthias Welwarsky

Krita 2.4

(released 12 April 2012)

won't be happy. Is there a session chair who wil lintroduce each of the speakers, make sure they knowhow much time is remaining and moderate questions?Is there a quiet room where journal ists and bloggerscan work on their articles? Is there room for the"hal lway track", for email , social izing and hackingbetween the talks? Al l these details matter in order tocreate a good, productive atmosphere for theconference.

I t is also important to make sure those who can'tattend Akademy know what is going on. Therefore, apart of the Akademy team is focused on taping thetalks on video, writing blog posts during the event andworking with the press to make sure word gets outabout the latest news from the conference.

After the attendees have left, there is sti l l some workto do. Packing up the leftovers from the event at thevenue, sending thank-you notes to sponsors,col lecting feedback from the attendees, processingvideos of the talks and publishing them on theAkademy website. Much must be done in the firstdays and weeks after the conference. And once al lthat's done, it's already time to plan the next event!

ORGANIZING AKADEMY – CONTINUED

Krita image courtesy of Canitiem

Photo courtesy of Matthias Welwarsky

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DeveloperSprints

LAKADEMY

PORTO ALLEGRE, BRAZIL

April 2012

Sandro Andrade

From 27 April to 1 May 2012 thefirst Lakademy (KDE Latin-AmericaSummit) took place at PortoAlegre, in the south of Brazil .Lakademy emerged as a naturalfol low up to the first Akademy-Brazil which took place in 2010.The meeting brought together 16participants from Brazil , Argentina,and Peru. Attendee's profilesranged from students doing theircol lege work with KDEtechnologies and GSoCers toteachers, web designers,translators, and people interestedin promotion.

Lakademywas carriedout in a multi-sprint formatsince there isnot yet alarge enoughnumber ofcontributors inany particularKDEtechnology,and peopleare usual lytoo far fromeach other tohave morefrequentspecial izedmeetings. Ingeneral,participantsclusteredthemselves insmall groupsdedicated tohacking Amarok, Plasma NetworkManagement, Cantor, Rocs, KDEGames, and KMyMoney.Lakademy was also a venue forGsoCers and Mentors from LatinAmerica to meet face-to-face,leveraging their project's qual ityand building stronger long-termrelationships.

On Monday, the promo meetingtook the whole morning. Therewere discussions about topics l ikea KDE Latin America web site,podcasts, creating a repository fortemplates and promotionalmaterial , upcoming FLOSSconferences, conveying a uniformmessage, and more. Requests andideas were col lected in the KDEBrazil wiki. The group is workingto have some of them done byLatinoware 2012 in late October.

In addition to technical and promooutcomes, Lakademy - as well asprevious Brazil ian KDE meetings -provide a friendly atmosphere,strengthen old ties and welcomenewcomers in a supportive andproductive environment.

SUPPORTED MEMBER ACTIVITIES

Krita image courtesy of Ramon Miranda

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PLASMA WORKSPACES

PINEDA DE MAR, SPAIN

June 2012

Sebastian Kügler

In June, people interested in theKDE Workspaces met for a week inthe Catalonian Pineda de Mar,near Barcelona, Spain. The planwas to not do a lot of hacking, butrather to gather new ideas,

develop new directions and makeplans for the next iterations ofPlasma Workspaces, especial lyPlasma Desktop.

The meeting produced interestingresults including more focus onActivities rather than virtualdesktops to organize work,stronger integration of webservices, more focus on users’workflows instead of separate,stand-alone applications andfeatures. The Plasma team addeda few people for this sprint. And italso developed some personas tohelp describe actual use cases tohelp develop solutions thatactual ly meet the needs of theusers.

Using games and other techniquesto boost productivity, the groupbrainstormed a list of issues that

need to be resolved, features thatneed to be implemented orpolished, and made plans forfuture releases.

Overal l , the team spent an intenseweek with people getting togetherto unify their ideas and visions,and to build a l ist of specific thingsto do. Now it is time to empty theTODO list!

Trade Shows andCommunity Events

KDE CASCADIA

AT LINUXFEST NORTHWEST

BELLINGHAM, WA-USApril 2012

Carl Symons

KDE Cascadia took place inconjunction with LinuxFestNorthwest (LFNW) 2012 inBel l ingham, Washington, USA.LFNW is the original grass-roots,community-driven Fest in the U.S.,held each year during the lastweekend in April . Thirteen yearsago, it started with an intention toshare Free and Open SourceSoftware with the local community.Now it attracts more than 1 ,000people—mostly developers andsysadmins—from the west coastsof the U.S. and Canada (sometimesreferred to as “Cascadia”). KDEhad an exhibit space and severalpresentations. KDE Cascadia was apilot for having several regionalgrass roots events rather than oneannual KDE conference in the U.S.

The exhibit attracted many peoplewho use and appreciate KDEsoftware. The response wasuniformly positive, although it’s notl ikely that there were manyconverts from other operatingsystems or desktop environments.The main exhibit draw was thelatest version of Krita along with alarge screen and pen tablet.Throughout both days, peopleexperimented with the variousartist tools. Plasma Active was alsoon display. Thanks to ValorieZimmerman and Chad (elcaset) forhelping to manage the exhibit.

There were presentations on Krita,ownCloud and Plasma Active; al lwere well received and al l wereful l .

Photo courtesy of Martin Klapetek

The Krita presentation was givenby Oscar Baechler who alsopresented a Blender workshop.With only a few weeks ofexperience with Krita, hedemonstrated many of itscapabil itiesalong withpointers aboutpen tablets anddigital drawingtips. Membersof the audiencewere surprisedat how quicklyOscar was ableto achievememorableresults. Oscarsaid, “In just afew weeks,Krita hasbecome acritical part ofmy workflow. It supports the way Iwork as an artist. I t won’t makeyou an artist, but it sure helps ifyou’re already good at art.”

Jos Poortvl iet and MichaelGapczynski coordinated theirpresentations on ownCloud toprovide user and technicalperspectives. The LFNW crowd was

particularly drawn to thepossibil ity of free and open cloudimplementations. Thanks to Jos fortrusting that LFNW would be akick.

Aaron and I col laborated on apresentation about Plasma Active. Idemoed, spoke a bit and showedsl ides for Aaron’s presentation.Aaron spoke on a remote hookupfrom Switzerland. The audiencewas receptive to the message thatreverberates throughout KDE“Systems buil t on openness andparticipation embody andstimulate our human potential .”

This crowd in particular couldrelate to the idea that devicecontrol and ownership shouldbelong to the individual, not to thecompany who sold it.

KDE Cascadiaworked on asmall scale. I tprovided usefulinformationaboutcoordinating aKDE presencewith establ ishedconferences. Onthe other hand,it did not havethe sense ofcommunity andKDE contributorinvolvementthat are keyelements of

other KDE gatherings such asAkademy.

Thank you to KDE e.V., the Boardand Claudia for your support. Yourinterest and commitment helpedmake KDE Cascadia a success.

LINUXTAGBERLIN

May 2012

Claudia Rauch

Traditional ly, KDE has a booth atLinuxtag Berl in, the biggest Linuxshow in Germany. This year’sevent took place from 23rd to 26thMay. KDE shared a booth with theQt Project and showcased its latestadvancements. Cornel iusSchumacher, KDE e.V.’s Presidentgave a keynote talk together withLars Knol l from Nokia about“Future of UI between desktop andmobile: Qt 5” which was very wellreceived.

Photo courtesy of Jos Poortvl iet

Krita image courtesy of Moe Jackson (13 years old)

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SOUTHEAST LINUXFEST

CHARLOTTE, NC-WAJune 2012

Heath Matlock

KDE was represented at the SouthEast LinuxFestagain this year with a booth showing off ourlatest software. The Cal l igra Suite, Kontact,Telepathy, and Plasma Workspaces werefeatured. Krita particularly intrigued manypeople. And several copies of the Krita trainingmaterials were handed out.

Many who have not used KDE software recently,or ever, said that they were impressed withKDE's technology, with special praise for Kwin'simprovements and overal l stabil ity. There was acontest to see who could crash a KDE applicationin under a minute. Several people tried, but noone succeeded.

Based on feedback from visitors to the booth,there are efforts underway to build a strongerKDE presence and get more visibil ity in the U.S.Anyone interested in participating is encouragedto join the #kde-usa channel on Freenode.

SOLUTIONS LINUXPARISJune 2012

Gaël Beaudoin

Solutions Linux 2012 took place In Paris LaDefence from june 19th to 21 st. There to run thebooth were : Aurél ien Gateau, Sébastien Renardand Gaël Beaudoin. KDE was presented to a widevariety of people, from students to professors, toprofessionals deploying KDE. Many questions fromexisting KDE users were about what was new inthe demos of what would soon become the 4.9release. Aurél ien as a developer answered moretechnical questions which was appreciated. I t wasan interesting experience and a pleasure todemonstrate what the KDE community has done ina year.

Krita image courtesy of Kargal l Lefou

Krita image courtesy of Kargal l Lefou

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NEW MEMBERSKDE e.V. is happy to welcomethe fol lowing new member:

Akarsh Simha

FINANCES

INCOME (€):

Corporate Supporters: 32,518

Donations: 5,700

Individual supporting membership program (Join The Game): 10,461

Akademy sponsorship: 53,500

Others (shared office, R&D projects, other sponsorships): 6,994

Total : 109,1 73

EXPENSES (€):

Personnel/administration/office: 33,078

Sponsorship for fl ights/accommodation for events/meetings/sprints: 25,888

Akademy organization: 3,381

Other expenses: 6,757

Total : 69,104

QUARTERLY RESULT (2Q2012) 40,069

AT THE END OF THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2012, KDE E.V. HAD A POSITIVE

BALANCE OF €255,367.Note: The financial numbers provided here are approximations and are provided for informational purposes only. For a completeaccounting record, please contact the KDE e.V. directly.

KDE is a registered trademark of KDE e.V. in the United States and other countries. Visit ev.kde.org for more information.

KDE E.V.BOARDCornel ius SchumacherPresident<schumacher@kde.org>

Sebastian KüglerVice President<sebas@kde.org>

Agustín Benito BethencourtTreasurer<abenito@kde.org>

Pradeepto BhattacharyaBoard Member<pradeepto@kde.org>

Lydia PintscherBoard Member<lydia@kde.org>

This report is publ ished by KDEe.V., copyright 2012, and l icensedunder Creative Commons-BY-3.0(creativecommons.org/l icenses/)

CONTACTWebsite: ev.kde.org

Email : kde-ev-board@kde.org

Report Prepared By

Agustín Benito Bethencourt

Carl Symons

Claudia Rauch

Pradeepto Bhattacharya

Kenny Duffus

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