 Today I wanted to talk a bit about the monetary aspects of KDE. Now there are some people wondering whether KDE is a company or not and it is not. It is a non-profit organization which means that it isn't meant to make money and because of that it has some restrictions as an example like the money that it actually makes has to be spent within a certain period of time. Now let's start from the beginning. How much money and how does KDE actually earn money? Because even though it's a non-profit we do can get some money. There are some restrictions on how like we cannot sell products but we have this nice graph done by the financial working group that tells us how the money is actually coming in from KDE. So this is income and it's mostly supporting members and donations. So it's actually mostly about donations as a whole and there are there are many ways to donate to KDE. There are even like a people but there's also and this is probably a better way a donation system in KDE.org. Now the donation system is actually getting revamped. There is a working group whose name I currently forgot that is working to do a new way that will make it easier to donate to KDE. There's also we can see your academy a google summer of code which are a minority and I mean often goes to actually the academy one is balanced by the academy one here in expenses. In here we also get patterns sorry and patterns are the ones that are listed at the bottom of KDE.org web pages canonical google susan and dot and so on. Within the patterns we do see blue systems and keep in mind this one because it will actually be important. So let's go see what KDE actually does with the money so expenses and we can see that mostly it's about staff and contractors. Before we get into that also let's give a quick look to the other things of course organizing academy which is the event that's every year and everybody goes there like every KDE developer or people are very interested in KDE go there and there is a lot of talks about what's KDE what KDE is doing but also BOFs actually for developers to discuss things on how to do things. A pretty nice event I joined the first one a couple of years ago and it was very nice so of course I'm counting like the last two were online so that's not the same thing so hopefully the next one which is in place will be super cool and then other things like infrastructure office sprints is interesting it's about organizing a smaller group of developer to all see in a place for like I don't know a week as an example and all work for that week on something together which is pretty cool I have never been to a sprint and luckily because you know the pandemic and then taxes and stuff so stuff and contractors that means there is some stuff which is most of the expenses so it would be rightful to ask okay so the stuff is probably the developers how much are the developers paid and it's not actually the developers right now there is no developer that is being paid by KDE to work on KDE software so you might ask okay but are the are all the people then volunteers and kind of there's also people paid by third companies like third-party companies let's call them like that that companies that are not KDE that pay people to work on KDE and that happens because there's a lot of software that actually relies on KDE and a pretty important one is blue systems before we get into that though okay stuff then what is stuff who is being paid inside of KDE and there are some people that are being paid so as an example some people in the promotion group that do actually as a work promoting KDE managing the social media actually putting together these reports on the KDE AV website these sort of things there are people that are actually paid to do them then other stuff like one person a while ago was paid to do a review of the documentation and what had to be done to improve it but also there is a community manager that between other staffs also organizes how goals work inside of KDE and I'm a goalkeeper so that's pretty important to me those sort of stuff that are all related that are all not related to development can be paid directly by KDE so you might ask okay but is not paying developer than like a choice that was made and it is like the KDE community at a certain point decided not to hire any developers however recently there is a strong ongoing movement to change that and to actually hire some people focused on development but up until now it hasn't quite worked there are some positions I think that are still open and those positions are not related to like KDE core products like as I don't know the plasma shell as an example I think there is one for hardware development that sort of things so blue system who are they so blue system is founded by a person this is my understanding a person that I had had a lot of money and decided to do some good stuff and that good stuff included doing yes some products by blue system itself but also work on some projects that are not directly done by blue systems as an example KDE Plasma, Plasma Mobile, Manjaro, KDE Neon and a lot of stuff that KDE actually relies on a lot there are a thing about like five to eight developers from blue systems working full-time on KDE Plasma and related projects but of course being employed at blue systems also means that you don't just work on KDE Plasma but also on the products that are made by blue systems and the things that blue systems things are important in this case the products I see here is there's this Netrunner which is a Linux distribution and there's also this C1 ARM powered microcomputer which is out of stock if you were wondering so maybe it will get in stock but I only today learned about it it sounds interesting but you know this is the stuff that I'm most interested in all of the other people actually working on KDE that are not being employed by other companies like me are doing this basically as volunteers so the vast majority of people working on KDE are not actually paid to do it there is and this is pretty interesting uh Liberapay Liberapay KDE account with a lot hello Liberapay KDE KDE hello okay community there is a Liberapay community for KDE people and you can actually see that some people let's say cloud as an example it's 11 euros every week it's not a lot but it's a way to try to do oh it's me hello I also have a pattern though it's a way to try to take some donations through other ways to actually finance the way to work on KDE most of the people I know from KDE work on it under free time and as far as I know as statistics go the vast majority of people working on KDE do it under free time personally it was a bit hard for me because my free time I could have more free time if I hadn't to do like other part-time jobs so what I tried to do was this channel and then set up a Patreon and I actually managed to do a decent amount of donation money plus advertisement it's not enough to make a living out of it at all but it's something that actually helps me a lot to keep on going it's it means that every time I see a part-time job offer I can say nah I'm good kind of kind of so that was everything for me and on my left on my right which is your left you can see actually the patterns that are giving me money monthly which is super duper appreciated appreciated because of the reason that I've just talked about and also people doing donations so if you want to help me get my channel going and also keep me working on KDE I'm trying to do like my best there and trying to work a bit more on KDE this week and I'm finishing up a completely right of KDE panels and then I will finish up floating panels and then floating uplets hopefully this whole thing will be ready for KDE Plasma 5.25 so if you want to help me do that meanwhile you can also subscribe and those sort of stuff if you can't afford like donation that's fine subscribing also helps me to actually go with the channel and that's about it see you tomorrow