KDE e.V./Sprint2011

This page is for planning of the first KDE e.V. sprint to be held in November 2011. For date, location, and list of participants see https://sprints.kde.org/sprint/31

Goal

The goal of this sprint is to bring together a group of active KDE people to get work done on the most important topics concerning KDE e.V. It's meant as a step and model towards scaling our ability to work on KDE e.V. activities beyond what the board is doing.

Schedule

Saturday, 19th November

9:00 Welcome and start of sprint, common session to get an overview about the topics and to form small breakout groups for specific topics.

10:00 Breakout groups for specific topics

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Common session to check on the groups, possibly rearrange groups

14:30 Breakout groups

18:00 Common session to review first results

18:30 End of first day

19:00 Dinner

Sunday, 20th November

9:00 Common session to form small breakout groups for specific topics.

9:30 Breakout groups for specific topics

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Common session to review results

14:30 Breakout groups

18:00 Common session to review results

18:30 End of sprint

19:00 Dinner

Topics

Join the game campaign

• Join the Game website -> Emil Sedgh?
  • fixing remaining problems (Claudia has a list)
  • add recurring payments for Paypal
• Join the Game promo -> Claudia Rauch
  • ideas to promote the program
  • ideas how to sustain members and get them to promote it to their friends
  • what happens with members that stop their payments? ideas how to draw them back in/make payment easier

Corporate supporting membership program

• corporate supporting membership program material and patron's forum -> Till Adam
  • finish/rework introductory material
  • define goals/tasks/expectations of patron forum
  • define/set-up what corporate partners get in return (mailing list for patrons, jobs list, ?)
  • set-up of initial website

Formalizing task forces

• formalizing of task forces -> Till Adam
  • work out a process and structure for task forces in the e.V. and document them
  • list areas where we should have task forces and who could be on them

Trademark policy

• research/evaluate existing policies
• draft one for KDE and propose it

New members questionnaire

• brainstorm what is wrong with the current one
• draft a new one and propose it to membership

Other topics

• organization of country KDE associations and country-oriented confs
• SugarCRM setup -> ?
• sprints.kde.org (make it full-featured enough to support the whole sprint planning process) -> Emil Sedgh?
• KDE swag
  • brainstorm ideas and discuss if this could be a source of revenue for the e.V.