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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Fundraising in KDE
From:       Uli Klinkhammer <uk () kontent ! com>
Date:       2020-09-26 17:31:31
Message-ID: d5e3a80d-0f98-4998-4400-9bf0dd6ddea9 () kontent ! com
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Hey Eike,


On 2020-09-23 13:32, Eike Hein wrote:

> 
> KDE e.V.'s expenses in 2019 were higher than its income. This was by design, \
> because the organization has accumulated large financial reserves in recent years \
> and it is obligated, as a non-profit, to put them towards its mission statement. \
> This scaling-up of our expenses was done carefully; we're not dependent on this \
> additional spending to keep up our core activities. Additionally, the size of the \
> delta is also an artifact of several large membership payments slipping to the 2020 \
> financial year. 
> To hammer it home: KDE e.V. is currently in the financially strongest position it \
> has been in its history, and has more options today than it had in the past. Our \
> most immediate concern is spending money, not fundraising. 
> This situation is (as it should) leading to proposals for how to scale up KDE \
> e.V.'s activities, leading to further increase in spending. One such proposal is \
> the one mentioned by Carl, submitted by Nate. As we discuss and probe these \
> proposals and their various potentials for becoming policy, their sustainability is \
> under review.

For sure, the german law does not allow to make to much profit over
several years for a "gemeinnütziger Verein". But I think the problem is
not in spending the money (there should be enough developers waiting for
a paid job out there), but in using it to provide a secure future for KDE.

So I would invest in future donation and payment models as stated in my
last email. Maybe the creation of a non-profit gAG is also an idea.

But at the end, again, I am very new to the community and this is just a
view of somebody, who is seeing it with very fresh eyes. :)

greez,

Uli


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