 I'm really happy that this year we're going to do the report of the Board as part of the public program in the past as part of our General Assembly and all of the same goes for working group reports which are going to be led up to this. So let's start with the report of the Board. As you might know, KDEV is the non-profit that supports the KDEV community and their support that is elected and responsible for all the things that the DEV does. We have Akir with our general board members and a board member and me as the president. So as ladies have, we are five persons in the board and some of you should already know that each board member has a term which lasts for three years. So since not all of us have joined the board at the same time at this academy and only my term is finished, I joined the board in 2015. So at our general assembly, which will happen on this Monday just after lunch, we will have the elections to choose a new person for this open position. So far we have just one candidate which is ND. I can see him here. So yes, Mondays, afternoons and your board position will be announced. We still can have new candidates stepping up at the last minutes since in our rules of association, new candidates can step up during the AGM. And now talking about members. We have two new members that's in rest, also running the board. And Stefan, thank you for joining. We only have two new members this year which is very, very bad at all your fault. Remember you have to invite the contributor to your project to join the EV because we need that in this academy. So last year we had 16 new people this year, just two. That breaks. We also have the individuals for the members. These are people who sponsored us lately, yearly. And we have about 50 more than last year, which is great. And 10 new campaign members, so thanks to all of them, it's hit them up. We have patrons, which are the biggest sponsors and we have supporters. But patrons are resistance, Google, through the compute company, Canonical and Private Internet Access. And we have Puzzlescom and KDEV as supporters of KDEV. One related thing, this is the KDEV advisory board where our corporate sponsors as well as other allies from within our ecosystem can advise us on the strategic matters and we exchange ideas with them. There will also be a bit bigger report about what the advisory board does in the working group reports. But I can say that we have these organizations there and Private Internet Access joining as a new sponsor and Debian joining as a new, yeah, allied, non-profit organization. Collaborating organizations are also some other special ones. Please predict things, project, the kids project that you own now. And random meetings, organizations, they are also community partners. This means that they have, well, closer relationships with KDEV. There's some different, well, there's some rules and some stuff that we share with them. It's been mostly to organize events in the past or to suck, mostly. Then we also have some other affiliations with different organizations. We have the local organizations, which is still just KDEV Spain and has only been in Spain for a while. If you're running a local group, I know that many of you are considered, well, affiliated with KDEV. I'm talking about a local group of KDEV, if you're doing a local thing or something else, you don't have to affiliate with KDEV. But if you're doing KDEV things locally, it makes sense to formalize this relationship. We are all international days, so it makes sense. We also have affiliates like S&P, OSI, OIS. Well, it's a lot of, but all of them are important to us. KDEV also has staff and contractors, specifically Petra, to have a board and make KDEV as a whole with accounting, travel booking, all these kinds of things. And she's a great help to make sure you all get here and get reimbursed and all these things. And two contractors who help us improve our outreach to the world. Paul and Ivana and Paul. Are you here? Also Petra? There's Ivana and Paul. Yeah, Paul, Petra? Probably, I'll say, making sure that things run out. All right. These have been submitted to us by Paul and Ivana and what they feel they've accomplished in the past year. We think we are very happy that Promo has become a thing again. Specifically, it has become an institution that others in the community can call upon and rely on to get things done. Quite similar perhaps to how CIS-Edmond has worked previously, where we're already accustomed to being able to reach out to CIS-Edmond to get help with something and we know what CIS-Edmond can do for us. It's become the same thing with Promo. We have managed to establish processes. We know when to invoke Promo and what they can do. And they have become a well-off machine in publishing stories for the community about our accomplishments. And I think we've seen the results in the feedback we get from the vital ecosystem and also starting from outside the immediate physical bubble, which is something that we're still going after. So, yeah, that's been going really well. Now, next year we want to have Academy again, of course. We put out a call for locations very shortly after last year's Academy. So far, we haven't received any submissions. That's a bit bad, but it's also not unprecedented. And we expect to get some very soon. And perhaps for the first time, we've made it very explicit that we are open to locations outside of Europe as well. This has technically been true in the past, but this time we decided to include it in the call for locations. We think we're ready as a community and also our funding situation allows for it. So, yeah, we hope that might happen. And very much we want to talk to any of you who have locations in mind or are even thinking about hosting Academy next year. Now, sprints. This is another thing that has gone quite well. The number of sprints we as a community organized and held last year is up again, which has been great to see. We've heard good things from the people who have held sprints. People seem to be happy with how it's working. Next year, we expect this to continue. In fact, we might even have more sprints than this list. Namely, all of our gold sprints are upcoming, either in the second half of this year or perhaps early next year. So, in addition to the experience, we've been organizing our conferences for many, many years. And last year, we had Academy in 2017 in Almeria, many of you have been there. And we have this year Academy. We are here. And also last year, we had the first edition of the Qt conference in Brazil, which was the first Qt conference in Latin America. It happened in Sao Paulo. The second edition was organized by a group of Qt presidents. Also, there are a lot of conferences that are not coordinated by ourselves, but we have a sort of Qt presence in. In the last year, we started to have a lot of Qt presence, mostly in some conferences that take place in those places where Qt students doesn't have a very, very strong presence. That's the case for example, and for a higher level of stress in a lot of conferences in each area. So, last year, we held two fundraising campaigns. One was for the Rwanda sprints, and one was the end of the year campaign. They both went fairly well. Rwanda came close to hitting its goal. The end of the year campaign did very well. We were specifically saying thanks for putting a lot of work into that. The fundraising campaigns are also an example of what we just talked about on the promo site. We've seen our fundraising group work together with the promo community to get our campaigns out there, and yeah, that's been working really well. It went better the second time than the first time, and we expect to expand upon that with future campaigns. Then we got an unusually large donation last year from the Pineapple Fund, who is an anonymous guy who racked up a lot of money using Bitcoin, and decided to spread some of his wealth to many free software and other free culture organizations. We got $200,000 from them. This has increased our income dramatically and has posed us with the challenge of how to spend money, which is an ongoing discussion with the EV membership. We have gathered feedback from the membership and from the wider community for that matter on what they would like us to do with that money, and we have a decent set of ideas, and we are in the process of realizing them together with the membership. We have managed to bring more people than ever to Academy this year with travel support, and we have been able to fund the Academy social event, also better than ever. I can't confirm that we'll have pineapples there, but that would be awesome. Yeah, other things we've talked about is putting some money into improving our documentation efforts in a similar way, perhaps, as we've done with promo, and, yeah, we'll see what the results are in the coming year. It's going to be quite exciting. It's also a new thing for us. It represents the EV scaling up its activities, which is always, it involves learning and discussions. It's going to be interesting. Yeah, so, could you please publish a yearly report that would describe all kind of activities that have been going on in the last month? And it's used to be a quarterly report. In the PDF format, we moved it to our web format in an yearly break where we described mostly everything that we've done. So it's a nice reading if you are coming now to the community and so you can have a view of all these things and finally show the state tools and new members of KDD and so just, you can access this web address. And also, it's worth mentioning it's true regarding screens and conferences and if you want to organize any kind of KDD and a range of other conferences in your local community to try to grow a community there and bring new members of, or if you know some conference that you think it's worth to have a KDD talk presented there, just contact the board with it. One of the big things we've been doing over the past years is evolving KDD as a program. And over the last year, the key thing was that we put together collaboratively the proposals for the goals and voted on them and got three main goals top-notch usability and productivity for basic software, privacy software and streamlined onboarding for the contributors. And I'm super happy with those goals and I'm especially happy about that because two of the three successful proposals were proposed by new people who hadn't been a big part of our community before and it's really cool that this process empowered them to be a part of it and have their voice heard and our community agreed that their ideas were good. A lot of things happened you already heard in the privacy panel and your photos talked about onboarding and we'll hear Nick tomorrow talking about usability and productivity and the work that's being done around there. But one of the things we've done, for example, the three of us unfortunately was asked me anything on Reddit where people could ask us anything related to the goals and it went really well. People ask good questions and we're excited about that. I think we should do that more often for other things around the world. Now, the question for me is how do we go on with those goals and for that I would like to do about Monday to basically look back at how things have been going so far, what was good, what was not good and how we should go on with that and I would love to see many of you there. All right, and then to the middle. As part of these reports we always say what we want to do this year what we think is important for the organization to achieve and to do. And last year we said we want to focus on the advisory board and making sure that it is a healthier organization and that we maintain current activity and that has largely worked out that there's more kind of proof for the next year. For the economy we said we want to finalize the measurement strategy. We have done that, we have worked on the goals. So that's great. For the economy in 2018 we said we want to leverage the advantage that we have by knowing very early on where the economy is going to be. For example, by spending more time on the program spending more time on contacting sponsors, getting more people here to this event and so on. And I think to a large extent we succeeded in that. Again, we couldn't do that. It just worked out very well. In terms of fundraising we said we want an active working group that works together on our campaigns. We wanted to make more use of CBCM as a campaign in total and allow more campaigns, more with promo. And I think in that part we succeeded. We still have a lot of work to do to make use of CBCM and the working group itself is on the right track, I think. We need to put more work into figuring out how working groups as a whole can work better. But that is good. In terms of outreach we said we want to throw a sustainable team and share awareness and policy of how we're the indicated community and give the rest of the community more insight into what is happening around our products. And the promo team is doing much more, seems much more active and healthy than it has in the past. I think we can more in sharing what the promo team knows and has with the rest of the group. Which brings us to next year. What matters for your organization? Academy 2019 it should be a great event and we should find a good location soon that many people can come to and attend. For a while in the academy we need to figure out how to keep up to momentum that we have around the goals now and determine how we move forward with existing goals and editing goals. We also need to spend time in better understanding the companies and the organizations around us since over the last years new companies came into our ecosystem and want to work with us and that's a great thing but we need to understand this all better to really do the best of it for our community. In terms of HR we need to get a shared understanding with the membership and community at large around hiring and contracting when do we hire people, when do we contract people and for what kind of tasks and we want to spend some time improving our HR processes. And the last thing, as you have seen over the last year we only added 2 new members to the EP we think that is way too few so we want to spend some time recruiting new members to the EP and seeing what is preventing new members from joining the EP and if there is anything we can do about it. Thank you so much. Questions? Questions? Brilliant. It's mighty! As you have just signed up the EP is for the coming year and we are talking about the final elimination of our overnight situation so why is spending money not on this and what are you planning to do? Spending money is not the biggest big question. Quickly follow up on that. We have an application as an EP to spend the money we are because we are not a proper organization so this is actually the order we need. Of course spending money for the sake of spending money is not the order we can understand that and that's why we would love to hear more concrete about how we can actually make use of the money for any way or some things because I've never seen that opportunity but I don't see that as a special task. I think it's sorry one of the specifically getting the sharing understanding of hiring and contracting. What the money allows us to do is to spend it on getting things done for us. The conversation we've always had at KDE is when is doing the work thing, when is it a bad thing specifically it's always the concern if we spend money on getting work done for us then we risk losing the ability to do it from within our community do it ourselves. The analogy I use is some people are afraid if you buy a calculator you get really bad at doing math in your head because you're relying on a calculator. On the other hand now that you have a calculator if you're very confident that you can retain that calculator you can get it on a high level and do more advanced math and personally I think as an EV we should find the confidence within ourselves to take those next steps because as an organization we are not actually all that unstable. We have a track record of being successful we are actually becoming more successful our funding is up our list of partners is up we have a lot of institutional experience we have a lot of experience from computers in the membership who we've been able to retain and I think we should look at that and consider that we're actually not all that bad at all to take those next steps and try new things and are well funded to actually take some challenges and take some risks and see that it takes them. So personally I think the next couple of years are going to be quite exciting to me it feels in many ways like it's the early days again in some ways because we're doing things we haven't done before in terms of engaging partners increasing our funding looking at new things to do I think as a community we tend to be very cautious which is a good thing that we've had about how to spend the money have perhaps been dominated by caution which is a good thing we should be careful but we should also decide to consciously take some risks and I'm hoping that the discussion moves in that direction moves forward and that we get a bit excited again about what we can do now that we have that money I think if we look at very recent decisions we decided to spend some money I think the return on our investment has been very high we've done the experiment with our marketing contractor I think it has succeeded I think the scale and the mood of this academy is partly a result of that and some of the new faces we've seen here we are seen here are a result of that and I think more of that that's my goal now I think we might be out of questions so thank you the most