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> There are more official break-downs of what donations are used for If you have any further questions on this, I'm KDE e.V.'s treasurer and happy to answer. :

by sho_hn 2y ago

> There are more official break-downs of what donations are used for If you have any further questions on this, I'm KDE e.V.'s treasurer and happy to answer. :-)

remram 2y ago
What is this "KDE OS" you want to fund? And why do you think it's a good idea?
- mkl 2y ago
  That's the blog author's idea, not KDE e.V.'s: > This is a question the KDE e.V. board of directors as a whole would need to answer, and any decision on it will be made collectively. > But as one of the five members on that board, I can tell you my personal answer
  - sho_hn 2y ago
    I personally don't know that much about this idea yet, but there's a talk coming up at our annual conference (eventually video also hits the web) that should be interesting: https://conf.kde.org/event/6/contributions/202/ https://conf.kde.org/event/6/contributions/202/
severine 2y ago
Will I get a certificate of donation for tax purposes? Do you fill the corresponding forms?
- sho_hn 2y ago
  Yes, we do. (Additionally, if you're in Germany, a few years ago the laws changed and donations below a certain sum annually don't require an individualized form; for this purpose we have a standard one in the docs section of our website authorities will accept.)
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sho_hn 2y ago
Someone asked if there's a way to earmark donations toward specific purposes. They deleted their comment while I was replying, but I saved it: At the moment we don't do this generally, but we've been dipping our toes into it somewhat in recent years. One form this takes is that we now allow sub-project teams to do their own fundraising and "keep the money" while KDE e.V. takes an admin fee, turning us sort of into a financial service provider for KDE projects that is cheaper than places like Open Collective. Our pilot team making use of this is Kdenlive, who spend the money e.g. on contracting dev work on the app. Another is that we once got a large donation earmarked for and on behalf of Calligra from the Handshake folks. That one to some extent highlights the reasons for our reluctance to do this more generally though - with the Calligra community fairly inactive, finding mechanisms to actually use this money has proven quite difficult so far. Finally, and this one is probably most interesting to you: The KDE community runs a regular election for community-wide goals; during a past election, there was e.g. one elected for UI/UX consistency. At KDE e.V. we take this election as one of the best signals we have on where we are expected to allocate resources, e.g. funding related dev sprints, or contractor hours. So one of the best ways to effectively earmark money toward thematic/larger stuff, such as the UX consistency you mentioned, is to engage there with goal propsals, discussion, offering support, etc.

by sho_hn 2y ago

> There are more official break-downs of what donations are used for If you have any further questions on this, I'm KDE e.V.'s treasurer and happy to answer. :-)

remram 2y ago

What is this "KDE OS" you want to fund? And why do you think it's a good idea?

mkl 2y ago
That's the blog author's idea, not KDE e.V.'s: > This is a question the KDE e.V. board of directors as a whole would need to answer, and any decision on it will be made collectively. > But as one of the five members on that board, I can tell you my personal answer
- sho_hn 2y ago
  I personally don't know that much about this idea yet, but there's a talk coming up at our annual conference (eventually video also hits the web) that should be interesting: https://conf.kde.org/event/6/contributions/202/ https://conf.kde.org/event/6/contributions/202/

severine 2y ago

Will I get a certificate of donation for tax purposes? Do you fill the corresponding forms?

sho_hn 2y ago
Yes, we do. (Additionally, if you're in Germany, a few years ago the laws changed and donations below a certain sum annually don't require an individualized form; for this purpose we have a standard one in the docs section of our website authorities will accept.)

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sho_hn 2y ago

Someone asked if there's a way to earmark donations toward specific purposes. They deleted their comment while I was replying, but I saved it: At the moment we don't do this generally, but we've been dipping our toes into it somewhat in recent years. One form this takes is that we now allow sub-project teams to do their own fundraising and "keep the money" while KDE e.V. takes an admin fee, turning us sort of into a financial service provider for KDE projects that is cheaper than places like Open Collective. Our pilot team making use of this is Kdenlive, who spend the money e.g. on contracting dev work on the app. Another is that we once got a large donation earmarked for and on behalf of Calligra from the Handshake folks. That one to some extent highlights the reasons for our reluctance to do this more generally though - with the Calligra community fairly inactive, finding mechanisms to actually use this money has proven quite difficult so far. Finally, and this one is probably most interesting to you: The KDE community runs a regular election for community-wide goals; during a past election, there was e.g. one elected for UI/UX consistency. At KDE e.V. we take this election as one of the best signals we have on where we are expected to allocate resources, e.g. funding related dev sprints, or contractor hours. So one of the best ways to effectively earmark money toward thematic/larger stuff, such as the UX consistency you mentioned, is to engage there with goal propsals, discussion, offering support, etc.