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Help us reach our Supporting Members goal 🥅!
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Help us reach our Supporting Members goal 🥅!
We want to sign up 500 KDE Supporting Members before Plasma 6 is released in February. We have already reached more than 💯.
Let's give it a push!
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
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If you would like to donate just once, that's great too!:
@Franzia
> Wait KDE needs more money?
Yes. We need money to pay for personnel salaries, our yearly
Akademy event, travel for community members to sprints and other events, the maintenance and rent of our tech infrastructure, rent for our Office, taxes and insurance, and other stuff.
KDE's software is always evolving and being worked on. We need money to keep things moving, otherwise the KDE project and most of the software projects that rely on it would die.
@Franzia
You can see what we spent our money on last year at
https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2022/
(Scroll down towards the end)
NGL I found this page about how new goals are chosen every 3 years and this organization has rocketed into Fascinating status in my mind.
KDE's Current Goals
@Franzia
> What is KDE Plasma exactly?
Good question, and one of the harder ones to answer: Exactly, exactly it is "desktop environment". That is, a graphical environment and a series of graphical utilities that allow you to manage most aspects of your computer, and provides the infrastructure needed by your apps to run.
@Franzia
Plasma allows you to configure how your desktop looks, manage connections to the network, provides graphical connections to your devices (mice, hard disks, printers, etc.), let's you run your programs with ease, and also lets different programs to graphically communicate with each other (via, for example, drag and drop).