The document discusses ways for developers to make a living while contributing to KDE. It notes that historically KDE development has been unpaid but that they now want to further their goals by hiring contractors and applying to more grants. The author outlines options like seeking more grants, strategic hiring, and helping members fundraise. He discusses focusing on hardware, apps and the base platform, and fostering communication among contributors to coordinate their efforts. The goal is to show that open source work is not free and to enable product collaborations that allow developers to be paid for their KDE work.

1. Make a Living with KDE
Aleix Pol i Gonzàlez <aleixpol@kde.org>
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2. Who am I?
Aleix Pol i Gonzàlez <aleixpol@kde.org>
KDE e.V. President
KDE hacker
Barcelona
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3. What is the KDE e.V.?
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5. Historically, no paid
development
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6. Yet, we want to further our
goals
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7. In 2017 marketing contractors
started
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8. The Big difference
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9. Challenge
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10. Opportunity
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11. Make a living
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12. Options, should we...
see to applying to more grants relevant to us?
hire towards strategic products?
help our members fundraise?
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13. What did we do?
Hardware, Apps and Base Platform
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14. How do we help each other?
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15. Using FOSS, telling our
partners to
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16. Fostering communication
among ourselves
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17. FOSS ≉ 0€
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18. Coordinating the different
people's backgrounds
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19. Product collaborations
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20. What's next?
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21. Aleix Pol i Gonzàlez <aleixpol@kde.org>,
@AleixPol, @apol:kde.org
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