 all right so welcome everyone to the report of the board this is a presentation we're gonna do explaining a little bit the work we've done over the last year mostly we have been doing previous years we used to do it during the HGM and we're still gonna do a version of that in the HGM but well a little bit the idea here is that we want to also explain to the rest and whether community of Katie what the KTV board is working on what kind of problems are in our heads and well maybe that way lure you into the KTV and further into the KTV board if you're planning on joining now before we get on topic let me or let us present ourselves I'm gonna start my name is Alish do you all want to introduce yourself or we can go quickly yes you can find them all at the social event tonight and and get their full CV over there but here you can find Ikehine our treasurer big round of applause and then Lydia Pinscher Neophytos Colocotronis and Adrienne the Groot thank you thank you very much these last two at Neophytos and Adrienne their term is ending today tomorrow but they're running again but if you want to run against them much like Nate Graham and Andy Betts are doing well you can decide to do it too maybe it's a bit too late and rushed but it's still a possibility that you can do it's illegal but in any case Nate and Andy are you here can you maybe wave so everybody knows yeah so if you have questions of what they want to do when they join the board you can go ask them again also in the social event or whenever around here before the AGM tomorrow to decide if you want to vote for them just as well as Neophytos and Adrienne all right so we had a lovely group of new people joined the KDEV over the past year a little bit less than the previous year but that was an unusually large group in that year so now it's a little bit more reasonable that said KDEV always works best when the membership includes a healthy sampling of the active contributors in the KDE community and the Academy is traditionally a good place to look around you take notice of the people around you appreciate them and maybe invite them into the EV next slide please right so the supporting membership program that we've had for a long time you know we haven't very actively pushed them as a result and also of how we attribute things the number does tend to keep down over the years that's sad we have added new means to do recurring donations so it doesn't necessarily reflect a decrease in interest we did open up GitHub for recurring donations over the past year and that is going very very well and many people have joined that way we also have some changes to our roster of corporate supporting members many of whom also sponsor this event thanks you for that we have gained to exceed the computers as a patron they of course are also about to release some new products that will ship KDE Plasma and other KDE software and unfortunately have lost also one supporting company content GmbH so the advisory board is a group of organizations and companies that are close to us either as patrons or as affiliates we are now as you can see at 16 organizations and companies we had a new entry this year there were taxi the computers as I came mentioned so we look forward to working more closely with them as well you can see all the members here don't know if it makes sense to go through them you're most likely familiar with most of them so move on to the next slide so as well with our advisory board we work closely with other organizations or we have some sort of relationship with them you can see the various types of relations we have on this slide we are community partners with Lee's cute project and very in random meetings we are also have the local organization here in KDE Spying they had their academies yes like over the last week their board had a meeting yesterday from what I know so we are working with them as well we have some other types of partnerships also we work with GNOME we do the last conference together it's not here but we're also working on a bit with them on the FlatHub governance we are part of the chaos because it's the working group again together with GNOME and some other people they are doing metrics on various apps of the desktop because it's them and more we're also part of the bar angle network that you must have heard over the various talks yesterday we also have various affiliates mostly from the open source network and we are members of advisory boards and other types of mentorship of other organizations in our wider circle at the same time so we try to remain relevant with them and developments on their front as well. One of the big things that KDE does is employ and contract people to support all of us in doing our work on around KDE. That is Petra, our board assistant, Joseph and Lana working on KDE ECO, Nika and Paul as marketing consultants, Adam who you've seen on stage as project coordinator and Alison previously and now Dina who you surely also have seen running around as event coordinators and in the past Frederick and Karl for documentation and now Ingle sends very recently as the App Store engineer and what do these people do? What can they help you with? Petra is maintaining our office she helps with accounting, paperwork, reimbursements you get she helped a lot with getting new people on boarded that joined recently organizing meetings and on top of that helping us stay on top of all the things that we need to do. Very valuable. Then we have Dina who is helping us organize this conference. Dina helping us organize this conference but also the Linux app summit together with Adam. Not just is he a great emcee on stage here for you, for entertainment and information. Now he's also the one who supports our goal champions and run the process for finding a new set of goals. Organizing trainings here at Academy and helping support the Academy in organizational and coordination stuff. Then we have Lana and Joseph. Are you here? Can you wave? Yeah. They're amazing in helping us run KDE ECO as a program making sure that we're in line with all the things that the German government needs and of course doing a lot of outreach to the KDE community and others so that we have this as a very successful program. And you should totally join the both on Tuesday at 12 apparently. And then Ingo, who unfortunately is not here today, recently started as the app store support engineer who is here to help you make sure that our software gets to our users through app stores they very often use and helping you make that easier by, for example, building infrastructure that you need for that. If you are interested in this, definitely do reach out to Ingo. And then we get to Anika and Paul. Anika, Paul, wave. They are doing a ton around KDE promo, running the KDE network program, trying to reach new communities, organizing or us showing up at conferences like FOSTA when it's in person again, running the promo spend this year and generally making sure that our promo runs smoothly and that we have a good communication to our users and the rest of the world. Also, you should join the both on Monday, so tomorrow at four. And with that, I hand over to eight. Thank you, Lydia. So Lydia has talked about the people that are here, the people we have, and I'll be talking about the people that we don't have. Documentation is a project that we started several years ago. We wanted to hire people to write the documentation or help organize the documentation that we have for our applications and everything that started in 2018. We hired people, they did amazingly useful things, but the contracts ended before the actual writing phase, so the actual making the documentation. We will be trying this again, but the petition is at this point not open. We'll try it again in the next calendar year, once we've got things, once we've settled down again. Next slide, please. We have other open positions, which you may be interested in. The base software development position is largely a KDE frameworks or framework six kind of support position. This will be opening up in the next couple of months. It might drag on into the next calendar year, but there will be an opening coming there for paid KDE development. At this point, so not filled is the documentation writing. Another position that is not filled at this point is the hardware integration. We looked around. We couldn't find someone who could do what we wanted for a price that we wanted. So that's why that one is still open. Next slide, please. Academy. I was going to talk about people who aren't here, but actually the important bit is this, who is here. Academy, all of you. We're really happy to have an in-person event again. It's a major milestone to be together again. Don't see this as a one-time get-together and leave, but I will talk about that shortly. We are going to organize an in-person, hopefully, I mean, if nothing goes terribly wrong in the world, there's going to be an in-person academy next calendar year, 2023. It's going to be amazing. We have a plan, but it's still secret at this point. It won't be a secret anymore in about two and a half hours. Two and a half hours will be the big reveal, but until then, we'll sit on it. All right. So following last year's academy, we finally saw a slow return to travel or get-togethers that were possible again, if done carefully. Of course, in fall, this then began with the fantastic birthday party that we organized and put together, thanks to everyone who was involved with that. And attending or happening around the birthday party were a number of local get-togethers in various places, including Barcelona. And I think that, at least in my mind, kind of signaled the return to we can meet in person again. That said, we had a number of sprints that still were preferred, preferably done in the online format, which also still remains available since the infrastructure that we built is reusable and we have kept it up and plan to keep it up. We had a summer sprint in essence in Greece, and this may not be the last you hear of those wonderful places today. And KDECO and promo sprints in Germany and in France, respectively. It means physical sprints are finally back, but the recovery continues to be slow. We haven't heard of new plans or new dates for some of the sprints that in the past were cornerstones of the community that were traditionally held. And we want to really encourage you to use this opportunity here at the Academy or, in general, the coming months to plan these again. The funding is there, and hopefully it's possible to do this in a safe manner now, so please plan them. Next slide, please. All right. We also attended a number of conferences and trade shows again. A lot of those were still in the online format. Conferences take a long time to prepare, so even as the pandemic situation improved, a lot of those events stayed online even in 2022. KDECO has done a ton of outreach and attended many different venues and spread the word and got some work done there, as well as the KD network that attended, for example, an event in the USA, which is great to see some activity there again on the continent, and also in Asia. Next slide. Sorry. All right. It was sourced from the Sprints Wiki, which was in a sorry state, so please do keep our wikis up to date. I had to cross reference. It got complicated, but you don't want to hear that. So let's continue talking about our own events that we put on. We obviously had a great academy last year, an online academy, but nevertheless a great one. We had the Linux app summit, which was held in a hybrid format, just as this academy is. And the same went for the Academy ES satellite event. And now, of course, we are here today, which we already heard Adrian speak about, but I think it bears repeating that we're very happy to see you again. To do all these amazing things we talked about, we need to do some fundraising. And we've already said we've got Tuxedo as a new patron, which is very nice. And we're working a lot with the fundraising working group to move away from our current fundraising infrastructure, which is running on CBCM and causing us a lot of pain to move to something more maintainable, but you will hear more about that in the working group reports after this. And which is something you will hear more about in the lightning talk later. We're working with the Canadian Life team to trial run dedicated fundraising for development for specific applications to really give those applications that have that potential boost. Then if you want to hear about everything that's happened in the official report that we published to all our supporting members and everyone else, then you can read the 2021 report published on the ewe website. Highly recommended reading with in-structuring stories from all the sprints, for example, that you heard about. One of the highlights of that report and last year was of course, Katie's 25th anniversary. We've been around for 25 years now and over 25 years now. And that's really a reason to celebrate. And we did on October 14 last year. With birthday reviews, fireside chats, including Matthias Ettrich, highly recommend if you haven't seen it, catch up on it. It was fun to hear his perspective on Katie today and where it came from. We did ask me any things on Reddit and more. You can find all of that on www.kdv.org. So something that Lydia just mentioned a second ago was that we're doing a fundraising with Katie and live. This fundraising is special as any fundraising, but for us especially, it is because we're doing something slightly different that we've done in the past. We used to do fundraisings where all the donations went into the KTV pot. And we used that money for whatever the KTV decided to do. But we were never doing well, product development with this money. In this opportunity, we discussed with the KDN Life people to find a way so that they can do this development work that they want to do with the money from the fundraiser. But that still, we don't have to compromise everything into just doing KDN Life because obviously KDN Life is part of a bigger thing that is KD. And we wanted to all fit together, right? We're fitting this initiative in what we have been calling over the last year, the make a living discussion where we try to make it possible for people to put effort in their daily professional lives into improving our products because we think that it's a very good way for our products to take the next step towards their users. Then to sum up what we think that has been great over this year. Well, we've already mentioned the Academy and having events again. I think that being able to see each other is very important. We've always been a very distributed community. We've always been working from home, but we've all created very tight links with each other that they can only be maintained by having dinner together every now and then. It can be once a year or once a sprint or however that happens. We'd like also to shed some light on the fact that right now we're establishing ourselves. It's a normal thing now that our software is on hardware, starting with the Pine and Slimbook devices, but as well, the big announcement we saw this year that multi-million devices around the world, the Steam Deck also is shipping our software. It shows that we have the necessary maturity for the industry to take us seriously. We only think that this is a good thing and we are hoping for this to go even further. Other initiatives, much like the Blower Angle initiative is something that we wouldn't have imagined that it would be a thing a few years ago, but nowadays it's a big reality. We already showed you this diploma that Joseph gathered from Germany earlier this week. We are hoping that we will see more of that. We want to learn more about our software and the impact that it has in the world we live in. We are seeing also a lot of work towards KD Framework 6, which means that we have a continuity on our software. We're going to see more of what we're doing in the next few years. Nobody has to be scared of us stagnating where we are right now. It's not happening and besides above that is going to happen there, that you should definitely be joining, well, see what they're working on because I think it's very interesting. And last but not least, we have new goals. We already put on them yesterday and we're all very excited to see how we can work. From a KTV perspective, we are interested in seeing how we can make sure that the KTV can support these goals and we're looking forward to talking to the different goal leaders to see how we can make it happen. So let's take a quick look at the specific overview. If you can call it like that of what we said last year, the academy that we plan to do over the next year, as Elish already mentioned, we worked a lot on the make a living initiative. We talked to a lot of people, as you might remember, we interviewed a lot of people that we thought could give us insights on how this could work and we came up with a set of conclusions that we shared with the community and then we follow up on that by announcing that we plan to try and hire people on the three positions that I think Adrienne mentioned earlier. So as Adrienne mentioned, the hardware integration engineer, we didn't find someone, we'll probably try again later on. The App Store support engineer, again we have Ingo that started in September and the platform support engineer will probably go in line with that in the next couple of months. So this is progressing according to our plan, maybe a bit late, but we're getting there. Next slide. One topic that we discussed last year is about copying with how they be and as an organization it's growing. We have more contractors as you saw. Nowadays some discussion has taken place around maybe hiring someone, maybe someone as a staff manager to help us with managing all our contractors and staff. For the last year we were able to cope between us and we managed to do that, but it's something that we are considering all the time and going back to and we'll see how things go and maybe try it again in the future. One thing that we wanted to improve and we are very happy and satisfied that we saw some reaction on this front is that we wanted to get the EV membership to help the board with various tasks around the year. We are happy that many of our working groups have started to be very active again. Some good examples are the financial working group that is like putting a lot of work in and supporting us on that front. The KD3 cute working group is also very active and they have regular meetings nowadays and doing stuff and discussing on that front as well. The fundraising group as well now with the KDEN Live fundraising. We had to do a lot of background work to decide on how this will run and it's now open and it's already going very well. I think we're already past it to like 60 or 70 percent of the amount. So that's very good. You will see that in our notes and from time to time we ask for help in our notes to the membership. So if you see something that you can help we'd be very happy to for you to step up and do try to help us because we need all the help we can get. Next slide. So we discussed coming back together we managed it we're all here again we're very very happy. We already started having sprints we want to see more and again we urge you to reach out to us if you want to organize something around what you're building your team your product we'll be happy as an EV to support you. And one big topic that we're getting some momentum on is around our partners and particularly you our hardware partners you might have seen that Pine and also Slimbook have been here and we also have Taxito as a new member of the board and a new patron and we're waiting for more devices on that front. Neil was also talking earlier in his talk about Fedora shipping KDE Plasma on some of their workstations hoping hopefully we'll see that maybe soon. So things are happening there and we want to continue helping on that front maybe the new position also helps. So that's it from me. So for the next year we're going to hear the financial situation from the financial working group in a bit but something that is very important that we do over this year is to assess our financial situation to see we've been talking about hiring a lot and hiring is very expensive there's ways to make money from the hiring we do but we need to make sure that we're doing it properly. So this is something that it needs well making sure that we're doing it properly. We're not going to say this cannot be done anymore. We're not going to say we should be always doing it. What we want to say is that we want to make sure that we're doing it properly and that we don't all end up in jail. Related to this we're trying with KDE Unlive the fundraising program. It's something that we could look into extrapolating. I talked about that a little bit for example on the abs goal presentation like for example asking for money on the different app stores that's a possibility making partnerships with other organizations and companies. This is things we could be we should be doing and I think that it's very it's a very good way to make sure that to tie our income in our products performing properly and if we can see that working I think that we don't have to worry about our financial situation but this is not the present this is my wish so we need to get there. In this regard for example infrastructure we've been transitioning from one place to another here we're talking about GitLab we need to establish something that we know it's ours and that we're happy with and that we can build upon. We're talking for example that Ingo will be working on this thing exactly because to be able to deliver products we need to be on a specific thing that people can build on. Something that for example the fundraising working group have been working on is entirely changing how our infrastructure worked because well it didn't work before it's something that we had been discussing at large in the in the past and now we need to get specific and polish. We're doing it and I am hoping that in the next year we can tell you that everything is going great and this is done and we are in place. Then you get your goals like I said something that as a board we've been discussing in the past is it's not super clear from our perspective how we can support these new goals or the goals we had at a specific time. We've tried for example allocating money to a different to a specific tool each goal that didn't work very easily. We understand why it didn't work I think but on the other hand it wasn't the right way of doing it. We will need to find other ways maybe just doing sprints again will be the thing we were missing maybe anything else. If anyone has ideas please reach out to either the goal leaders so that when they talk to us they know they have good ideas or or yeah or talk to Adam or talk to anyone like that's why we're here talk to each other and square. Also we need to learn about our changing ecosystem what do I mean by that or what do we mean by that what we mean is that we're moving from a very distant position where our users were fairly far apart from our developers but we're trying to or we think that breaking this barrier is the way that we can solve a lot of our problems and when we do that we need to be doing a lot more work in areas that where maybe well forgotten we need to make sure that this happens properly that we have all of the roles that we need to have in our community and if the QDV can make that happen I think that this is for for the best and last but not least we keep talking about that we think that it's very important for a healthy community to be together and we want to continue doing that Academy we have a plan if you want to organize LAS you can still put forward a proposition we don't really have anything settled down and sprints if you're working in any team and you think that it would be interesting at all to meet which I know it would then say so and we will figure out together a way to make it happen and if you think it shouldn't be meeting then you're wrong make up your mind and then you reach out to us and we see how we can make it happen and that's it yes this is what we wanted to talk about right now you're going to hear a little bit more from Evie through the working group reports but for now reminding you that you can talk to us while we might get the title and Frowny face sometimes we are very approachable people we will be around during Academy we're on every chat that you can imagine chat room chat technology except for slack we don't use slack and and we're gonna host an office hours on Tuesday feel free to come by we don't really have a specific agenda specifically because we want to hear what you have in mind and and answer what we think because while it can think that like everything is very organized what it ends up working how it ends up working between us is that we meet we speak our minds we see how we can work together and if we can have well this meeting with you all in these office hours I think that it can be very interesting but that's it from us today thanks for listening to us are there any questions for the board from the audience maybe this is for the office hours I don't know if we have time we can do this question sir yeah we have a couple of minutes so if you have questions I'll check the online as well but nothing so far thank you yeah thank you very much