Hey Eike,
On 2020-09-23 13:32, Eike Hein wrote: > > KDE e.V.'s expenses in 2019 were higher than its income. This was by design, > because the organization has accumulated large financial reserves in recent > years and it is obligated, as a non-profit, to put them towards its mission > statement. This scaling-up of our expenses was done carefully; we're not > dependent on this additional spending to keep up our core activities. > Additionally, the size of the delta is also an artifact of several large > membership payments slipping to the 2020 financial year. > > To hammer it home: KDE e.V. is currently in the financially strongest > position it has been in its history, and has more options today than it had > in the past. Our most immediate concern is spending money, not fundraising. > > This situation is (as it should) leading to proposals for how to scale up KDE > e.V.'s activities, leading to further increase in spending. One such proposal > is the one mentioned by Carl, submitted by Nate. As we discuss and probe > these proposals and their various potentials for becoming policy, their > sustainability is under review. For sure, the german law does not allow to make to much profit over several years for a "gemeinnütziger Verein". But I think the problem is not in spending the money (there should be enough developers waiting for a paid job out there), but in using it to provide a secure future for KDE. So I would invest in future donation and payment models as stated in my last email. Maybe the creation of a non-profit gAG is also an idea. But at the end, again, I am very new to the community and this is just a view of somebody, who is seeing it with very fresh eyes. :) greez, Uli
