Asking for donations in Plasma
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And so on. If we don’t raise more money while our software becomes more popular, we risk “dying of success,” so to speak. Remember, we give all this stuff away for free, no strings attached! Nobody has to pay a cent if they don’t want to or can’t afford to.
Accordingly, if you’re plugged into KDE social media, you probably see a lot of requests for donations. I end every one of my “This Week in KDE” posts with one, and many others do for their own blog posts as well. KDE’s official social media channels blast it out constantly, and we also do yearly fundraisers that are widely promoted online. If you’re reading this, you may get the impression that we’re always begging for cash!
But if you’re not plugged into these communications channels, you might not have ever seen a donation request at all. We know that the fraction of people who subscribe to these channels is small, so there’s a huge number of people who may not even know they can donate to KDE, let alone that donations are critically important to its continued existence.
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Also here:
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KDE Plasma 6.2 adding a pop-up for donations, plus they want to make a next-generation KDE OS
A recent change was proposed last month to implement an on-by-default KDED (KDE Daemon) module that will gently ask you to donate to KDE as a pop-up on your notification system inside the KDE Plasma desktop, planned for version 6.2.
LWN:
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Graham: Asking for donations in Plasma
The KDE project plans to directly ask for donations in the Plasma desktop starting with version 6.2. According to this blog post by Nate Graham, users will see a system notification once per year (in December) asking for a donation to the non-profit KDE e.V.: [...]
Linux Magazine:
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Plasma Desktop Will Soon Ask for Donations » Linux Magazine
Plasma desktop is one of the more popular Linux desktops on the market. Like most Linux desktops, Plasma is free, which means the development team relies on donations. The problem with that has been the challenge of knowing where to donate.
The Plasma development team has a solution in the form of a yearly pop-up reminder to encourage users to donate. This new feature doesn't mean you have to donate to the cause; it just means it'll be easier to do so.
According to Plasma developer, Nate Graham, the team asks for donations to cover things like web and server hosting, organizing and hosting larger Akademy events, funding more frequent and larger sprints, and paying people to work on things not focused on by the volunteer community.
Nate states, "If you’re plugged into KDE social media, you probably see a lot of requests for donations. I end every one of my 'This Week in KDE' posts with one, and many others do for their own blog posts as well. KDE’s official social media channels blast it out constantly, and we also do yearly fundraisers that are widely promoted online. If you’re reading this, you may get the impression that we’re always begging for cash!"