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.

We need to support KDE e.V. in its three-fold mission of representing, supporting, and providing governance to the community. Our current strategy is to promote the value of KDE software and the KDE community and its underlying values to individuals and corporations to get financial and practical support. The primary focus of our activities to support the community is to enable people to have productive face-to-face time. Our main activities in this area are Akademy and sprints.

To support our activities we need to intensify our efforts to build a network and ecosystem of individuals and organizations which share our interests and values. This will strengthen our community and broaden the scope and potential of what we are doing and are able to do in the future.

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

Most important topics

Join the game campaign

The "Join the game" campaign is our current campaign to acquire new individual supporting members. Individual supporting members are an essential part of our support, as their support is stable and we have a huge base of people out there, who like KDE and are potential supporting members.

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

Desirable results of sprint:

Functional web site http://jointhegame.kde.org, which can be used as a base for an online campaign
Action plan for online campaign

Corporate supporting membership program

The corporate supporting membership is one of our biggest source of income. It relies on a small number of supporters, though. We need to broaden the base, acquire new corporate supporters, and actively manage good relationships with them.

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

Desirable results of sprint:

Material we can send to potential new members
Action plan for patron's forum, ideally with a team behind it
Web page on http://ev.kde.org explaining the program

Thank you page policy

We get quite a bit of support from various parties in form of goods or services. We are missing a structured way to recognize this support and thank them.

Desired results of sprint:

Policy for "thank you" page
Up to date version of page
Action plan how to maintain the page, ideally with team behind it

Budget and goals 2012

Sprints

sprints.kde.org (make it full-featured enough to support the whole sprint planning process) -> Emil Sedgh?

Important topics

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