Summary of KDE 4.2 Release Party in Zurich

[Ian Monroe]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
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> Leo Franchi wrote:
>>> At this event I had the pleasure to meet Shane Coughlan from the FSFE
>>> (official title "Freedom Task Force Coordinator" [1]). Shane is
>>> involved in the Software Conservancy and expressed his great interest
>>> in helping us with getting things done with the organization. Shane
>>> was extremely friendly and appeared to really want to help us in any
>>> possible ways to "get things going". In particular he explained that
>>> there are ways to solve the issues with getting financial advances for
>>> planned travels that had been a concern for us.
>>>
>>> Shane offered solutions to get around this and other problems. He
>>> explained that he is "very well connected" with lawyers around the
>>> world, which could be an important asset to us. As I am not an expert
>>> in financial and business matters, I did invite him to subscribe to
>>> this mailing list and participate directly in the discussions around
>>> the Conservancy. I hope this is in your interest too.
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>> I would ask that once the board is created, Shane get in touch directly
>> with them. It would be great to get a dialogue going with Shane from the
>> FSFE and the SFC lawyers as well. A pro-active approach i think will
>> work quite well :)
>
> Just to provide an update, I've had several emails back and forth with
> the SFC.  We should be able to get fast tracked in, but they're having
> some issues that we're working on sorting out...mostly due to needing to
> understand the exact nature of the relationship between KDE and Amarok,
> which is complicated for them because of a (stalled) official KDE
> application that was started a last year.
>
> I'll report back with any relevant news or updates...right now it's
> mainly me trying to convince them that despite what they think, we're
> not actually a part of KDE, we're an entirely separate project that
> happens to get some services donated to it from KDE out of goodwill.  I
> made some analogies to SourceForge, we'll see if that helps.  :-)
>
> - --Jeff

Even if we are just an extension of KDE, the local KDE groups are
incorporated and have seperate pools of money.

To make it clear in this textual communication: I know you're just
presenting their arguments. :)

Ian