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title: "Join the KDE e.V."
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date: 2021-02-20T15:13:00+02:00
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draft: false
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categories: [kde]
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tags: [kde]
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url: /posts/join-the-kde-ev/
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author: "Christoph Cullmann"
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src: "images/akademy2020_group_photo_1080_small.jpg"
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The [KDE e.V.](https://ev.kde.org) is a registered non-profit organization that represents the [KDE Community](https://www.kde.org) in legal and financial matters.
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The KDE e.V. is for example responsible for paying the servers that run our [GitLab instance](https://invent.kde.org) and all our other web services.
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The e.V. takes care of sponsoring developer sprints and contributor travel costs, too.
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You did participate at some [Akademy](https://akademy.kde.org)?
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This wouldn't have been possible without the KDE e.V., both by sponsoring and helping to organize the event!
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If you are an active KDE contributor, consider to join the e.V. to be able to vote on its future direction.
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This includes very important things like the [KDE Free Qt Foundation](https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation/).
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At the moment, already a lot of our KDE community members are [e.V. members](https://ev.kde.org/members/), too.
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But naturally, as people enter and leave our community, we need to outreach to new contributors to join the e.V..
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The e.V. shall stay a representation of the currently active KDE contributors/community and not some club of KDE oldies =)
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Just take a look at the [2002 e.V. meeting](https://ev.kde.org/reports/2002/) group photo below:
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<center><a href="/posts/join-the-kde-ev/images/2002_meeting.png" target="_blank"><img width=700 src="/posts/join-the-kde-ev/images/2002_meeting_small.jpg"></a></center>
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A few of this people are still active, some of them many of the current active KDE community members have never heard of.
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The group pictured above isn't that diverse either.
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It looks a bit like you take a group photo of some computer science course in a university in Germany of that time.
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And yes, I am on that photo, too (as usual, wrongly written as Cullman, like [my nice county](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullman_County,_Alabama)).
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I actually fished that picture out of my private data storage .P
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Let's take a look at the Akademy 2020 group photo below (CC BY 4.0, created by the Akademy team):
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<center><a href="/posts/join-the-kde-ev/images/akademy2020_group_photo_1080.png" target="_blank"><img width=700 src="/posts/join-the-kde-ev/images/akademy2020_group_photo_1080_small.jpg"></a></center>
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This looks a lot more like the KDE community we all know and love.
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Therefore it would be fantastic if active people take care to join the e.V., too!
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If you want to join, just take a short look at [this guide](https://ev.kde.org/getinvolved/members.php).
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You will need some e.V. member that suggests you, I assume you will know someone from the [e.V. members list](https://ev.kde.org/members/) to ask to do so.
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