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Hello, everyone. Welcome to another FastTrack talk about financial support for working on KDE.

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Let's see what these buttons do. This is too fast. Wait.

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What is the next? Oh, no. This is... Ah, yes. Right.

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I wanted to start with this slide because this is an internet address.

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Let's just start with the most important thing. I want you to fill this in.

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So let's start with this one. This is a form where you can request financial

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support. If you have a good idea, you can send it in here.

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And we will look at it. And we will maybe fund you.

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So, yeah, that's it. Now I have some more slides. But I wanted to start with

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this one because it's important. Write it in your browser and bookmark it.

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Who am I? I am Jos van den Hoever. I work at NLNet.

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I was long ago also an active contributor in KDE. Somebody remembers Strigi here?

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No, no. Oh, one or two hands. Yeah, they don't look very happy.

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It got replaced by Baloo long ago.

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So, and yes, desktop search is always a tough problem.

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Caligra is also something I worked on. It's recently revived by Carl.

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And the Rust bindings that were maybe lessons learned for the current iteration

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of Rust bindings. But I'm still a KDE user.

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Yeah, what is NLNet? We used to be the first internet provider in the Netherlands.

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And it started off with modems as a hobby, as a project at a university.

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And it grew and grew, and money came in. What to do with this money?

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Well, let's spend it on open source software. So that's what happened.

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Eventually, it was sold, and the money that was gotten from this sale was used

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to sponsor even more open source software.

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And Lnet has been doing that for decades now, and we have a lot of experience,

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in giving out money to open source projects and open hardware projects.

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And we do this as a service now. So we are a matchmaker between people with

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money and people with time and expertise.

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And we couple them and make more open source.

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Currently, we have more than a thousand projects in our history of projects that we have supported.

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And this is the list. You can just type some keywords to filter it and have

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an idea of all the stuff that we've been doing.

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Now, when it comes to specifically KDE, here's some example projects that we've

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been doing. Caligra is something we did more than 10 years ago.

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We thought it was a very important project. I was actually a recipient at the

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time to work on open document formats and loading and saving of that,

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introducing perhaps a made-to-do to track changes in documents.

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Another recent example is Ocular. So Ocular got support to improve the digital signing of PDF files.

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Kden, the XMPP chat application, got encrypted chats and encrypted video calls

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and account portability.

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Kmail got improved mail encryption.

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Neochat got encryption. Well, there's a theme here. we got some money from the

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European Commission to work on privacy and security encryption.

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And so, yeah, we supported a lot of encryption.

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Dolphin is currently getting money to have a secure admin mode.

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So, you know, you don't have to make the whole Dolphin red when you use it as root.

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KDE Connect has been receiving support to re-implement the discovery between devices.

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LabPlot has gotten better statistical methods and support to do plotting.

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Plasma Wayland recently has gotten a touch interface, better handling of that

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for digital artists and people with impairments.

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And so that's a lot of KDE projects. Why do we like KDE so much?

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Well, the vision of KDE just matches really well with what an LNAT does.

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So whenever a project from an LNAT comes in, it already has a big pre and that

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is the large community that KDE has, right?

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It has a long history of writing good software and it cares about standards.

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It creates reusable building blocks to frameworks. So anything that's done in

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KDE has a huge multiplier effect, which is, we think that's great. It lives by its values.

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Carl is next, sorry, not Carl. Ben is next door doing, talking about all the

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the server hosting that KDE does all

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by itself and living its values of self-hosting the stuff that it needs.

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And it has mature projects, which sometimes have tough tasks that need to be

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implemented, which somebody can't do on a Saturday, but they need more support for that.

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And that's when it's an ideal time to come to us and we can perhaps help financially.

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So besides helping financially, every project that comes to us,

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which is obviously not only KDE, in fact, KDE proposals are way too less at

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the moment. That's why I'm here.

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Every project that comes to us gets money, but they also get a security scan.

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They get help with packaging. They get help with licensing, testing setup.

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They get mentoring and they also get help with translating and possibly in the

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future, even more things.

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And this is a model that is very similar to how the KDE community works,

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because here you have so many people with different expertises,

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like Nico said yesterday in his lightning talk, different expertises that come

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together and together work as a team with a lot of expertise to make great products.

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So we are trying to emulate that, also for people that come in with a good idea,

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but don't have this community.

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We have people that can help with that.

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So, this is supposed to be an inspirational slide.

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We have a huge task ahead, right? This big red ball here is all the proprietary

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collection of all proprietary users that use all this closed software.

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And in relation, the false users, that's just a tiny bubble.

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So we need to have this big blue arrow to siphon people from the one to the

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other so So that we go to this awesome situation.

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And yeah, I know that everybody here would like to have this.

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And so let's do it. And your time and expertise is much valued.

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And here's a quick explanation of our process.

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How does it work? You fill in a form. Then there's a first round.

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Maybe you get a sad email.

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If you get a happy email, we ask you questions about, you know,

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how exactly are you going to do this stuff and then maybe um you get accepted

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and then you write a plan you do the work and you get paid that's it we want

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to have as little bureaucracy as we can,

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as we can make possible we really want to help the developers focus on coding,

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who can apply well all genders all countries individuals

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communities companies we are very flexible with how we support you whatever

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your situation is if you are a single person or if you're just a group who meets

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here and would like to together send in a proposal that's fine we are flexible

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with getting you paid in many ways.

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So, go write a proposal. There's a buff session where I will be helping you if you need that.

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I will also talk about other funding than just an LNAT.

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We can do matchmaking between projects because maybe we already are sponsoring

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something that would be a good match to work with.

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And, yeah, you can catch me here in the halls. I'm here until Thursday to ask me any questions.

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Let's make it happen.

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Thank you.