[dot] aKademy 2007: KDE e.V. Meeting

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From: Jos Poortvliet <>
Dept: down-to-business
Date: Friday 06/Jul/2007, @05:24

aKademy 2007: KDE e.V. Meeting
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   aKademy 2007 [http://akademy2007.kde.org/] goes on. Tuesday was
filled mostly with the KDE e.V. [http://ev.kde.org/] meeting, and
finished with a social event at the city chambers. Read on for the
aKademy 2007 e.V. meeting report.


  I. E.V. MEETING

     Officially, KDE is represented by the KDE e.V. which is located in
Germany. The meeting started with general housekeeping tasks, followed
by reports from the e.V. departments and the working groups. With the
departure of Eva Brucherseifer [http://people.kde.org/eva.html], our
long-standing president of the KDE e.V. for the past 5 years, the
assembly elected a new board member. KDE e.V. would like to take this
oportunity to thank Eva again for all the great work she performed
during this time of great change within the KDE community and
technological landscape, and we are pleased to hear that she will
continue to contribute to KDE. The new elected board member is Klaas
Freitag [http://en.opensuse.org/User:Kfreitag]. After internal private
discussion within the board, it was decided that Aaron Seigo will assume
the presidency of the KDE e.V. board.
  [http://static.kdenews.org/dannya/akademy_ev_board.jpg]
     The assembly also discussion of a Research working group, proposed
by e.V. member Claire Lotion
[http://elektron.et.tudelft.nl/~cmlot/index.html]. The purpose of a
Research working group would be to assist third parties who would like
to collaborate with KDE on research-related topics, and make it easier
to apply for and collect research grants for KDE-related projects. Many
in the audience expressed interest in this, and several volunteered for
the group. A kde-research mailing list has already been set up for this
group.
     Another topic was the hiring of an administrative person to help
with the growing admistrative burden on the e.V. board in KDE, such as
corporate sponsorship and conference organisation. We had invited the
Vice Chairman of the GNOME Foundation, Anne Østergaard
[http://www.anne-oestergaard.dk/], to share their experiences with such
a position. It was decided to proceed with the preparation of hiring
someone for this position. This person will become the first direct
employee of KDE e.V. Some of the other topics of discussion included a
KDE statement on software patents, licensing, and membership procedures.

     As many attendees at aKademy are not members of the KDE e.V., much
hacking and unscheduled meetings took place in the other building in the
meantime.


 II. THE LORD PROVOST AND THE CITY CHAMBERS

     After the e.V meeting had concluded approaching 6 pm, we moved to
the other building to hack and talk until it was time to start walking
to the city chambers. The aKademy Team
[http://akademy2007.kde.org/contact.php] had arranged a meeting with the
Lord Provost of Glasgow
[http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/YourCouncil/Council_Committees/LordProvostsSecretariat/].
The building was very impressive, and we were told that it was built in
1888, and time had clearly not depreciated its beauty. The Provost
welcomed us to Glasgow, and expressed his interest in our work. After
his speech, we proceeded to the food, generously provided by our friends
at Trolltech [http://trolltech.com/].  After the food (which was very
good), many of us proceeded into the town for a few drinks, celebrating
the hospitality of Glasgow. It had been another busy day, and even
though much of the day was taken up by the e.V. meeting, we ended up
with over 320 commits (up from approximately 200 on Saturday and
Sunday).