 KDE has three people that are called the goalkeepers. If you haven't seen my video about KDE goals you should probably check that one out first where I actually explain what goals are and I would actually like to quickly share my story on how I became a goal champion because I can only do it now because soon I won't be a goal champion anymore so I gotta be quick with this. So it happened in 2019 and in 2019 I wasn't actually really a strong part of KDE. I was like doing some very small contributions but I didn't quite understand the whole project as well as I do now and luckily very luckily actually the academy that year was in Italy and it was rather close to my city so I was able to attend in person. If it would have been like anywhere else even Germany which is still close to Italy but not enough for me I wouldn't have been able to actually go there so I was super lucky that academy which is the largest meeting of all of the KDE interested people every year was in Italy and that year I was also very lucky that there was the goal new goals selection. We had three old goals which were privacy on boarding of people and the third one was usability and productivity usability and productivity sorry I forgot about the second term and they reached their natural end and so we had to actually do new ones and everybody literally everybody could propose their own so I did and I proposed the consistency without really thinking that it would have been accepted but you know I thought that was something that KDE could have improved on and I actually wrote a very very detailed post seeing everything that in my personal opinion should have been done so I did that and the announcement of the new goals was done on this stage in front of a very large live audience this was before the pandemic and when Lydia which is her actually announced the goals she also asked the people that proposed the goal to stand up and talk about in front of everyone talk about that those goals and so I was kind of anxious because I mean I didn't go there thinking that I would have to talk to everybody but anyway I got there and you can see you can see me in this picture with my beautiful whoever took this picture okay I did have the python t-shirt which is pretty cool but my I wasn't dressed appropriately for the event even my pants were like not the one that I would have chosen if I knew I was going to stand in front of everybody but it went very really well anyway so I just had to say yeah yeah we're going to do something thanks everybody and I'm going to require some help that's what I said in very short you can actually get the video of that talk from YouTube if you want to see it and actually after that everybody has been super super supportive to me and even though I didn't know anyone there like literally nobody everybody actually got to me and talked to me saying introducing me to the various aspects of the kd community and I understood really little English because I was Italian I was very young now I kind of know more but even back then I knew something but I kept actually misunderstanding everything and that was annoying but actually let me make you an example here there's this at a certain point Lydia actually came to me and said that the day after we were going to do breakfast to talk about the goals and I was like okay breakfast okay where when and after quite some discussing I actually understood that she didn't say breakfast she said bof's which are birds of feather which are like meetings to actually discuss about some topics specifically and I had never heard the word before and I really thought we were going to have like all together the kd members have breakfast all together to talk about consistency that that did not happen that but I thought it was going to happen so the gold champions are actually the people who propose the goals and are going to maintain those goals I was selected back then as the consistency I wasn't selected I actually proposed the goal and the goal was selected selected through making me a gold champion the second one was about uh wheel and but the the person that actually proposed the wheel and goal never actually showed up it was it was they were a newcomer too so they didn't stand up and actually somebody else got assigned to the goal so the gold champion for wheel and is maven maven maven and then the ups goal was actually proposed by Joe Riddle Jonathan Riddle but later on he actually stepped back and Alex Paul took his place so these three people are currently the gold champions and the cool thing is that you can become a gold champion too because at the next academy there will be a new selections of goals and everybody again can propose them and believe me if I was able to get a goal selected you can too and if you want some suggestion on how to actually get there there is a video in the KD official youtube channel where I actually get interviewed by Adam which is the project manager of KD that actually manages these things and in there I go more in depth about how you should structure your goal if you want it to be selected