Aaron Seigo
Who was the head of KDE e.V. from Jul 2007 to Jul 2009?
KDE e.V . KDE e.V . is a registered non-profit organization that represents the KDE community in the legal and financial entities . The association supports KDE’s work in cash , hardware , and other donations , and then the use of donations to help the KDE development , but not influence on development . e.V . stands for eingetragener Verein which means registered association . The three flags on top of the KDE e.V . logo represent the three main tasks of the KDE e.V. : supporting the community , representing the community , and governing the community . History . In August 1997 , KDE One was held in Arnsberg , Germany . Its the first KDE community meeting with 15 participants , and budget is 14000 DEM ( 7158 EUR ) . Matthias Kalle Dalheimer realized that it wasnt a good idea to channel thousands of money through his personal account to run the meeting , so he wanted to find an association . In November 1997 , Matthias Ettrich and Matthias Kalle Dalheimer registered KDE e.V . as association in Tübingen under German law , and became president and vice president . Additionally they had to reach out to housemates and personal friends to meet the minimum number of persons required to create an eingetragener Verein ( 7 persons ) . In October 1999 , the following candidates were elected to the board in KDE Two , Kurt Granroth became president , Chris Schläger became vice president , Mirko Boehm became treasurer , and Preston Brown became board member . In August 2002 , the following candidates were elected to the board in KDE e.V . meeting , Matthias Kalle Dalheimer became president , Mirko Boehm became treasurer , and Eva Brucherseifer and Ralf Nolden became board member . On 26 August 2005 , the following candidates were elected to the board in KDE e.V . meeting , president was Eva Brucherseifer , vice president was Cornelius Schumacher , treasurer was Mirko Boehm , and board member was Aaron Seigo . On 15 October 2006 , Mark Shuttleworth had become the first Patron of KDE . On 28 February 2007 , Trolltech become the first corporate Patron of KDE . On 2 July 2007 , the following candidates were elected to the board in KDE e.V . meeting , president was Aaron Seigo , vice president were Cornelius Schumacher and Adriaan de Groot , and board member were Sebastian Kügler and Klaas Freitag . On 3 July 2007 , KDAB becomes Patron of KDE . On 7 July 2007 , Intel Corporation and Novell had also become Patron of KDE . On 4 April 2008 , the KDE e.V . and Wikimedia Deutschland have opened shared offices in Frankfurt , and has the first KDE e.V . employee . In July 2009 , the following candidates were elected to the board in KDE e.V . meeting , Cornelius Schumacher became president , Adriaan de Groot and Frank Karlitschek became vice president , and Sebastian Kügler and Celeste Lyn Paul became board member . In September 2009 , KDE e.V . and Free Software Foundation Europe ( FSFE ) moved into shared offices in Berlin . In January 2010 , Google becomes supporting member . On 9 June 2010 , KDE e.V . launched the Join the Game campaign . Organization . KDE e.V . includes three types of memberships : Active members , Extraordinary members and Supporting Members . Both natural persons and legal bodies may become members . The Active members have contributed to KDE community . The supporting members are supporting the KDE through financial contributions , consist of : basysKom GmbH , Digia , Sirius Corporation Ltd , and Google . The Patron of KDE is the highest level of supporting member , are : SUSE , Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB , and Nokia . All association’s members are invited to attend the general assembly . The general assembly is often as part of Akademy . The board of directors are responsible for the operation of the association . The board of directors has five members via election held by general assembly . KDE e.V . office is located in Berlin . It has 1 paid administrative employee , called business manager . The business manager is full-time responsible for daily operations , resource acquisition and managing interns . KDE e.V . offers internships to qualified students . In Spain , the official representative of KDE e.V . is KDE España . KDE e.V . is an associate organization of the FSFE and a licensee of the Open Invention Network . Activities . KDE e.V . organizes and subsidizes events including developer sprints , Camp KDE and Akademy . It handles the legal issues around the KDE community . The working groups are a structure which will formalize some roles within KDE and enhance coordination within KDE , communication between parts of KDE . Currently , active working groups are community working group ( CWG ) , marketing working group ( MWG ) and system administration ( sysadmin ) . Disbanded working groups are human computer interaction working group ( HCI WG ) and technical working group ( TWG ) . The System Administration Working Group is responsible for administration of KDE servers . The Marketing Working Group was founded in November 2005 , help to coordination of marketing and promotion . Currently members are Troy Unrau , Franz Keferböck and Wade Olson . The Community Working Group was founded in August 2008 , helps with community advice when needed . The Technical Working Group is to coordinate planning and release . Furthermore , they should decide what software is included in KDE or removed , as different programs will be combined into modules and the dependencies between the modules and to external software should be allowed . A further task , it is a contact point for general technical questions related to KDE to be contacts between developers of the project and produce . After one year , the Technical Working Group has been replaced by the Release team , that is independent of KDE e.V. .