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The KDE e.V. Quarterly Report is now available for January to March 2007. As usual it includes reports of the board and the working groups about the KDE e.V. activities of the last quarter and future plans. Read More

The KDE e.V. Quarterly Report is now available for October to December 2006. It includes reports of the board and the working groups about the KDE e.V. activities of the last quarter of 2006 and future plans. Read More

Trolltech, the Norwegian company behind the Qt toolkit has become the second Patron of KDE. Trolltech itself should not need an introduction, since they have worked together with the KDE project since its inception ten years ago. Knut Irvin, the community manager for Trolltech points out that "KDE does an excellent job of making UNIX-based desktops easy to use. Trolltech gains from feedback, bug reports and the spread of Qt through the success of KDE". Read More

In a move to promote the KDE desktop in the Enterprise, the UK's Open Source experts, Sirius Corporation, have become a Supporting Member of the KDE project. Sirius' commitment to KDE is our second supporting membership and follows Canonical's recent patronage of the project. Sirius and KDE are joint participants in SQO-OSS, an EU-funded project that assesses the quality of Open Source code. Read More

The KDE e.V. Quarterly Report is now available for July to September 2006. Topics covered include the outcomes from the 2006 membership meeting, the status of the Technical Working Group's improved charter, the new press channel from the Marketing Working Group and for the first time a report from the Sysadmin Team. All long term KDE contributors are welcome to join KDE e.V. Read More

At the event celebrating the 10th birthday of the KDE project, Eva Brucherseifer, the president of the KDE e.V., announced that Mark Shuttleworth, the man behind Canonical and Ubuntu, joined the KDE e.V. under the supporting membership program as the first Patron. Read More

The annual general membership assembly of the KDE e.V. 2006 took place in Dublin during aKademy 2006. The board was extended to five members with Adriaan de Groot and Sebastian Kügler as new members while Mirko Böhm stepped down after serving as vice president and treasurer for seven years. There also were taken decisions to accept the rules of procedures about online voting, to accept the System Administration team as an official KDE e.V. working group and more. Read More

The rules of procedure for the supporting membership of the KDE e.V. are available in English and German. Read More

The 2005 assembly meeting took place at aKademy 2005 in Malaga, Spain. A new board was elected and the assembly votes to add technical guidance as a responsibility of KDE e.V. and create working groups for KDE development and activity. Notes from the assembly meeting and the working group meeting are available. Read More

An English translation of KDE e.V.'s Articles of Association is now available.