Help us reach our Supporting Members goal 🥅!
We want to sign up 500 KDE Supporting Members before Plasma 6 is released in February. We have already reached more than 💯.
Let’s give it a push!
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
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If you would like to donate just once, that’s great too!:
Wait KDE needs more money? That thing I use everyday? I’m signing up but I’m super new to linux could someone explain what KDE Plasma is exactly?
Edit: okay so it’s a desktop environment and also makes 200 applications that run on all linux desktops, and are standard with my OS so I recognize a lot of their names.
You could probably run your entire life only with programs built by KDE. They have chat clients, spreadsheets, encryption, file and software service, and like every useful basic tool.
Edit: wait what they MAKE Krita? You’ve gotta be kidding me. They just make it work on Linux, right?
LMAO.
Oh no. A lot of our apps are multi-platform and work on Windows, macOS and Android apart from Linux. We do all the work of converting them so they run everywhere… It can be a lot of work!
If you like Krita, check out Kdenlive. It will blow you mind.
Also check out https://apps.kde.org. There are a lot of cool things there too.
This list is incredible. But like I’ve had Krita on windows for ages, I had no clue it was KDE! I just looked at the page for Kdenlive and wow I see why it’s at the top of the list. Unbelievably deep software!
So we still give away all the software for free, but maintaining and developing new versions (and new apps and features) requires quite a lot of resources. One of those resources is money. We rely on donations to get that.
@Franzia
> Wait KDE needs more money?
Yes. We need money to pay for personnel salaries, our yearly
Akademy event, travel for community members to sprints and other events, the maintenance and rent of our tech infrastructure, rent for our Office, taxes and insurance, and other stuff.
KDE’s software is always evolving and being worked on. We need money to keep things moving, otherwise the KDE project and most of the software projects that rely on it would die.
@Franzia
You can see what we spent our money on last year at
https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2022/
(Scroll down towards the end)
NGL I found this page about how new goals are chosen every 3 years and this organization has rocketed into Fascinating status in my mind.
KDE’s Current Goals
@Franzia
> What is KDE Plasma exactly?
Good question, and one of the harder ones to answer: Exactly, exactly it is “desktop environment”. That is, a graphical environment and a series of graphical utilities that allow you to manage most aspects of your computer, and provides the infrastructure needed by your apps to run.
@Franzia
Plasma allows you to configure how your desktop looks, manage connections to the network, provides graphical connections to your devices (mice, hard disks, printers, etc.), let’s you run your programs with ease, and also lets different programs to graphically communicate with each other (via, for example, drag and drop).