Meetings 

KDE e.V. meeting report -- meeting held 24th to 28th August 2002, Hamburg, Germany By Chris Howells and Daniel Molkentin, KDE Policies SIG notes from David Faure. Read More

These are very rough notes from the meeting, taken by Jonathan Riddell Matthias Kalle Dalheimer will be chair, passed by a large show of hands. Eva Brucherseifer will be secretary, no votes against. Mirko Boehm declares the meeting opened. Read More

These are rough notes from the KDE e.V. Assembly on 26 August 2005, by Jonathan Riddell Read More

Dear member of the KDE e.V., you are invited to the next general assembly of the KDE e.V. It takes place at Graham Hills Building, 50 George Street, Glasgow G1 1QE, Scotland on Monday, 2 July 2007, starting at 10:00 o'clock am. The entrance to the building is from Richmond Street. The agenda includes the following topics: 1 Welcome by the president of the board 2 Election of a chairman for the general assembly 3 Report of the board 3.1 Report about activities 3.2 Report of the treasurer 3.3 Report of the auditors of accounting 3.4 Relief of the board 4 Report of representatives and working groups of the e.V. 4.1 Report of the representatives to the KDE League 4.2 Report of the representatives to the KDE Free Qt Foundation 4.3 Report of the Marketing Working Group 4.4 Report of the Human Computer Interaction Working Group 4.5 Report of the System Administration Working Group 5 Election of board 5.1 Election of replacement for leaving board member 6 Election of representatives 6.1 Election of representatives to the KDE League 6.2 Election of representatives to the KDE Free Qt Foundation 7 Election of auditors of accounting 8 Vote about change of rules of procedures for supporting members (see Appendix A) 9 Vote about Fiduciary License Agreement (see Appendix B) 10 Vote about statement about software patents (see Appendix C) 11 Miscellaneous Changes and additions to the agenda have to be requested until two weeks before the assembly. The final agenda will be announced on Monday, 18 June 2007. So if you want a topic covered by the general assembly please send it to the membership mailing list or the board. The earlier this is done the better the topic can be prepared, so please don't wait. If you are not able to participate in the general assembly in person you can, according to section 6.6 of the articles of association of the KDE e.V., ask another member to act as proxy for you and execute your voting right. Fill out the attached form, sign it and make sure that it's available to the chairman of the general assembly on the day of the assembly if you make use of this option. Each active member can act as proxy for up to two other active members. If you aren't executing your voting rights personally or through a proxy for two consecutive general assemblies your membership status will be changed from active to passive, according to section 4.2 of the articles of association. Passive and supporting members have the right to attend the general assembly, but they have no voting rights. The general assembly will once again be part of aKademy, the biggest KDE event world wide, including a conference, a week of coding marathon and BoF sessions and the opportunity to meet many of the great people that form the KDE community in person. Don't miss the opportunity to be part of this event and shape the future of the KDE e.V. by attending the general assembly. If you need financial help to be able to attend the general assembly you can apply for a reimbursement of parts of your travel costs. There is a limited budget available for this. See the KDE e.V. Travel Cost Reimbursement Policy for details. In the name of the board of the KDE e.V. Cornelius Schumacher KDE e.V. Vice President Appendix A The board asks the membership to remove the US Dollar amounts for the membership fees from the rules of procedure for supporting members. The Euro amounts remain unchanged. Appendix B The Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA) gives KDE contributors the option to give certain rights about the code to the KDE e.V., so that the e.V. can act as representative of the community in some legal questions. The text of the agreement will be published together with the final agenda for the membership assembly. The membership is asked to vote about the text. This doesn't imply any transfer or grant of rights. For this contributors have the option to individually sign the agreement, once the text has been decided by the membership. Appendix C As decided on the last membership assembly the e.V. wants to have an official statement about software patents, so that it can more effectively advocate the interests of the KDE project regarding software patents. A text for the statement will be published with the final agenda for the membership assembly. The membership is asked to vote about the text.

Summary There was an open meeting for 3 hours at aKademy 2005 discussing how to make working groups for KDE and allow e.V. to give KDE technical guidance, as agreed at the e.V. assembly on Friday Aug 26th. The idea of the working groups is to create a structure which will formalise some roles within KDE and enhance coordination within KDE, communication between parts of KDE and delegation. In doing so they will be able to make decisions and perform conflict resolution. The meeting brainstormed a list of groups and brought it down to four groups with various responsibilities (show mind map). The "non-technical administration" group was later dropped because it covered most areas that are the direct responsibility of the e.V. board. There was some discussion about whether we should go with the groups that came out of the discussion following the brainstorm or groups that are self-forming, it was decided to go with the former. There will be meetings a few times a year with 1 person from each working group and the e.V. board to report back on their areas of KDE. Decisions will be made by the e.V. membership at the highest level, the e.V. board plus working group Representatives next and the working groups themselves below that (with the normal bazaar development below that). Most decisions will be taken at the lowest levels, escalating as needed. Three groups are now going to decide how to form each group, technical, marketing and human-computer interaction and proposals for each group will be brought back to the e.V. soon. Read More

Nove Hrady, Czech Republic, August 22nd, 2003 09:00 AM: Start of the regular membership assembly at the Nove Hrady castle Read More