Make the World a Better Place! - KDE End of Year 2014 Fundraising

€ 22 885 raised

The KDE End of Year 2014 Fundraiser has finished. Thank you everybody who supported us in this fundraiser. Go to the KDE donation page if you want to support us further.

As we approach the end of the year we begin the season of giving. What would suit the holiday better than giving to the entire world?

Here is a unique way to give back to KDE allowing us to keep giving free software to humankind.

KDE is committed to improving technology and software to make the world a better place. We produce great quality free software that everyone is free to use or modify without any cost or restriction.

We want to bring the solutions we are offering to the next step. By participating in this fundraiser, you'll be part of the improvements we'll put into our educational software, so kids can have better tools for school; our office suite, so we have the best tools for the workplace; and our desktop so we can all experience a fun and productive experience when interacting with our computers.

Donating to KDE is not for you, it is for the entire world.

As a way to say thank you, starting with € 30 we will send a KDE themed postcard to any given address. You will get an extra card for every additional € 10 donation. Get cards for yourself and for your family and friends to show them you care for freedom. It's the perfect way to spread the festive cheer and donate to your favorite project at the same time.

For those of you that are very generous and donate more than € 1000 we want to thank you by being the guides to our cities. We would like to spend an evening showing you the more interesting spots in the cities we live in, have a chat about KDE, life and everything. At the moment this offer extends to the following cities:

• Barcelona, Spain
• Burgdorf, Switzerland
• Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Nuremberg, Germany
• Pune, India
• Toulouse, France
• Washington, DC, USA

This campaign will end on January 15th 2015.

Where Your Donations Go

Last year KDE spent about € 30 000 on travel and accomodation of more than 100 contributors for various sprints throughout the year.

Sprints are in person meetings and are really important for a team of hardworking volunteers around the world to focus their efforts and discuss technical matters around the project. The amount of output we get from the sprints is really worthwhile for all users of the software.

Remaining money gets spent on our infrastructure, we have a large portfolio of servers hosting websites, code, continuous integration and a lot more. A full breakdown can be seen in our quarterly reports.

Notes:

• We will use your paypal email address to contact you and ask for the addresses to send the postcards mid-November.
• You will be able to choose between the generic thank you or custom text for the postcard.
• The first shipment of cards will be December 1st, after that there will be a shipment every week until the end of the Fundraiser.
• The city guide evening will have to be coordinated with the local people, so we can find a date that suits all of us.

If you prefer to use international bank transfers please see this page.
Please write us an email so we can add you to the list of donors manually.

List of donations