The document discusses the importance of fostering relationships between KDE (a free software community) and colleges, highlighting how student and teacher involvement can enhance learning and promote innovation. It outlines the benefits of participating in KDE, including professional development, collaborative experiences, and exposure to real-world software development processes. Additionally, it emphasizes the community's focus on contributing to a larger ecosystem and the potential for universities to influence the open-source movement.

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Libre Software Communities and
Universities
Generating together innovation nodes, employability and
technology transfer
Agust´ Benito Bethencourt (@toscalix)
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License
Copyright (C) 2011 Agustin Benito Bethencourt.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free
Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover
Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
®
KDE and the K Desktop Environment logo are registered ®
trademarks of KDE e.V. Rights in Spain are delegated to KDE
Espa˜a.
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KDE Espa˜a
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KDE
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The speaker
Agustin Benito Bethencourt (toscalix)
Linkedin profile
Blog in Spanish (included in Planet KDE-es)
Blog in English (included in Planet KDE).
Twitter: @toscalix
IM: toscalix@jabber.org / IRC: #toscalix
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KDE Espa˜a
n
KDE
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KDE Espa˜a
n
Legal Spanish association.
Trademark agreement with KDE e.V.
List of Members and statutes.
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Contact KDE Espa˜a
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Akademy-es: KDE Espa˜a annual event.
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Mailing lists: the preferred channel.
Planet KDE-es: KDE blogs in Spanish.
Facebook and Linkedin: KDE Espa˜a Group.
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IRC: #kde-devel-es in freenode.net
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KDE Espa˜a
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KDE
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KDE Espa˜a
n
KDE
Free Software Community Project
What is KDE
KDE Software
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Free/Libre Software
Check this blog post with links to definitions and further
documentation (in spanish).
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Community
A community is a social structure that shares personal values,
cultural values, business goals, attitudes, or a world view.
What binds it is a community culture of social rules and group
dynamics that identify members.
Source: Liz Straus
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KDE Espa˜a
n
KDE
Free Software Community Project
What is KDE
KDE Software
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Formal definition
The KDE Community is an international technology team
dedicated to creating a free and user-friendly computing
experience, offering an advanced graphical desktop, a wide
variety of applications for communication, work, education and
entertainment and a platform to easily build new applications
upon.
Further information in KDE’s website.
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Freedom
Standards.
Open and free formats and protocols.
No software patents.
Free licenses: GPL compatible licenses.
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Identity
KDE is a technical focused project.
We are passionate about what we do.
We look for new solutions to classic challenges: Akonadi,
Phonon, Nepomuk, Solid, Plasma widgets, activities,
panels and folder views, etc.
KDE is integration and elegance.
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Governance Model
Basic elements to understand KDE Governance model:
Meritocratic Oligarchy.
KDE structure and organization.
KDE Code of Conduct.
Community Working Group.
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Expertise
15 years of expertise in the desktop field
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A legal entity
KDE e.V. is a legal foundation based in Germany.
Local Associations: KDE Espa˜a, KDE India, KDE Brazil,
n
etc.
Copyright Fiduciary Assignment.
Free Qt Foundation
Members of international organizations and consortiums:
FSF, FSFe, OIN and others.
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KDE Espa˜a
n
KDE
Free Software Community Project
What is KDE
KDE Software
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KDE Software
KDE 4.7.4:
KDE Platform.
KDE Workspaces.
KDE Applications.
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Workspaces
Different Workspaces for different devices, but the same
technology:
Plasma Desktop 4.7.4 for PC, laptops and Media Centers
Plasma Netbook 4.7.4 for netbooks
Plasma Plasma Active Two for tablets and, smartphones
(Atom and ARM).
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Different environments
Users: power users, special and regular users.
Education.
Business environments.
Big deployments in Portugal, Brazil, Germany, France,
India, Spain, India, etc.
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Different platforms
KDE is multi-platform:
Linux based distributions: OpenSuse, Kubuntu, Mandriva,
Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Knoppix, Caixa Magica,
Bardinux, NetRunner OS, etc.
KDE on Windows: yes, it works.
FreeBSD, Mac OS X, MER, MeeGo, etc.
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KDE is great for college students because.....
Teachers should get involved in KDE because...
Universities, as institutions should promote Free Software
Communities, as KDE, because...
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KDE is great for college students because.....
Awesome learning environment
Become a professional collaborating in KDE
KDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE because...
Universities, as institutions should promote Free Software
Communities, as KDE, because...
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KDE is a learning environment
You will always find something exciting to do, adapted to
your skills.
Learning/teaching is in KDE DNA.
A natural way to learn other languages.
KDE members come from all over the world: different
cultures.
You are welcome, even if you are not a software developer.
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Low entry level
Contribute.
Junior Jobs for newbies.
GSoC, GC-In and Season of KDE.
Local support: KDE Spain website.
KDE Spain IRC channel: #kde-devel-es in freenode.net
KDE Spain Mailing lists.
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Maintenance of your own code
You become maintainer of your own code.
That code can be shipped in many distributions so
millions of users will depend on it.
Your code is affected by others decisions. You must stand
for your ideas.
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Learning software development processes
Worldwide distributed development teams.
Complex Release processes. Fixed release cycles.
MultiX Product (X=device, platform, languages...)
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Awesome learning environment
Become a professional collaborating in KDE
KDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE because...
Universities, as institutions should promote Free Software
Communities, as KDE, because...
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Work in a complex product
Complex architecture divided in different layers.
Related with many other relevant free software projects.
Many use cases. Software adapted to many environments.
Develop in different programming languages: C++,
Python, Ruby, Javascript, QML.
Use many different first class development tools.
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Production environment
Going through a whole life cycle of a mature software
product.
Release cycles. Stability.
Bug reporting. Bug squads.
Participation in decision making processes.
Responsibility associated with pressure (good pressure).
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Exposure
What you do is public:
KDE Sources.
The Dot.
Planet KDE.
Events
Mailing lists, IRC channels, social networks.
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Impact
Your work affects your teammates.
KDE depends on you. So do the entire KDE ecosystem.
Distributors and deployers will bring your work to millions
of users.
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KDE is great for college students because.....
Awesome learning environment
Become a professional collaborating in KDE
KDE is an experience
Teachers should get involved in KDE because...
Universities, as institutions should promote Free Software
Communities, as KDE, because...
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KDE takes you around the world I
KDE Events
Desktop Summit
1 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit.
2 Berlin Desktop Summit.
Akademy.
Camp KDE.
Conf.KDE.in.
Akademy-es, Akademy-fr, etc.
Sprints
KDE Sprints.
Sprints in Spain:
1 Forge (Solid Sprint): Madrid 2010 and 2011.
2 KDE-Edu Sprint: Bilbao 2011.
Check KDE Quarterly Reports for Sprints reports.
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KDE takes you around the world II
Other events
International Free Software events: FOSDEM, LinuxTag,
LinuxCon, FISL, OSCON, Cebit, Latinoware, etc.
National Free Software events: Campus Party, LSWC’10,
LSWC’11, etc.
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KDE has a shiny future
Media-centers, smart-phones and tablets: Android,
Blackberry, mer, etc.
New environments/devices: cars and other embedded
systems.
Web: ownCloud, web services
KDE on Windows.
KDE Frameworks 5
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KDE means taking responsibilities
The product is important for many people.
Your work is relevant to others.
The development process is relevant to KDE members,
we enjoy working on KDE.
Freedom is a right that needs an everyday commitment.
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Teachers should get involved in KDE because...
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Communities, as KDE, because...
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KDE is a real product
KDE can be deployed in the University and used as a
laboratory, but with real users.
Upstream contributions can flow naturally in the previous
case.
Teachers work with their students have a big impact on
them and in KDE.
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Influence in other new movements
Open Innovation
Open Hardware
Open Data
Open Government.
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R&D projects involvement
FP7 program: ALERT Twitter: @alertfp7
New fields of study: software development, communities
governance, free software ecosystem, technical issues, etc.
KDE have relations with other Universities, corporations
and R&D oriented organizations.
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KDE is related to many organizations I
Corporations
Small and medium size companies (local and worldwide)
Colleges and Universities
Governments
Public Administrations
Non profits.
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Teachers should get involved in KDE because...
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Communities, as KDE, because...
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We share common values
Freedom as universal value.
Knowledge.
Scientific method fundamentals and consequences.
Innovation as a basic need/requirement.
Sharing as a requirement for progress.
Generating an environment of equal opportunity.
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High Tech companies involved
Many IT companies are involved in KDE:
SuseLinux
Nokia
Intel
Google
and many more not so big but equally relevant: KDAB,
Collabora, KolabSys, Canonical, Mandriva, FOX Elektronix -
Fux, etc..
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Spanish companies too
UFO Coders.
Wadobo Software.
Grupo Opentia.
Castinfo.
You can also contact KDE Espa˜a or KDE.
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KDE as an entrepreneur ecosystem
...and once you get technical skills, run your own business:
UFO Coders.
Wadobo Software.
Froglogic.
KO.
BasysKom.
OwnCloud Inc..
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Local innovation pole
Knowledge transfer from KDE to University has no
artificial limitations.
Easy knowledge transfer global-local-global.
Creation of a local ecosystem as part as the global
ecosystem.
There are examples already: Toulouse University
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University as a local tractor
KDE Software is available with no acquisition cost.
University as a tester.
Local companies can become part of KDE global business
ecosystem.
KDE needs local support.
University as a local reference for a global networking.
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KDE experience
KDE actually develop initiatives which directly relate us
with students: .
1 Google Summer of Code (GSoC).
2 Season of KDE (SoK).
3 Google Code-In (GC-In).
Toulouse University experience.
Research projects.
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KDE and GSoC
Google defines and finances the program.
KDE defines contents and executes it.
Proposals are associated to free software projects
KDE and GSoC information.
2011 report (3 articles).
Google approved 51 KDE projects in 2011. 47 finished
successfully.
FAQ about GSoC.
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Season of KDE
SoK is an internal KDE program.
Shorter than GSoC and without funding, but totally
worth it from the teaching and the impact perspective.
It shares several procedures with GSoC.
It is in progress.
About 20 students successfully finished in 2011.
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KDE and Google Code-In
KDE is one of the key participants.
Similar idea than GSoC: GCin rules.
KDE propose tasks and mentors.
Age between 13 and 18 (pre-college students).
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Experience in Toulouse I
KDE + teacher + students + local companies experience.
Promoted and directed by Kevin Ottens, a KDE
developer.
References
Berlin Desktop Summit: We’re a family. How five years
of University Collaboration changed our town landscape.
Akademy 2010: Toulouse University 4.0 - Fourth season
great debriefing.
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Three years of
collaboration with Toulouse University.
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Players needed
College teachers from Computer Science and/or other
areas (Art, Education, Philology/Translation and
Interpreter, etc.)
KDE Espa˜a and KDE.
n
ASOLIF and the regional Association.
Local KDE developers and users: LoCo.
Testing environment.
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Roles needed
College teacher.
Student.
KDE mentors.
Local company.
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Projects
F.C.P.
PhD.
Internship programs.
Internal projects.
R&D project
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KDE strategies and challenges
KDE Spain works as an entry level for newbies to become
KDE Developers.
KDE is working on the definition of a program to build a
network of organizations around our Community.
Evolving previous experiences into a solid program that
includes companies is one of KDE future challenges.
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Action Plan
Identify and promote a group of power users (teachers
and students).
Organize KDE promotional events, in collaboration with
KDE Spain and local companies: install parties, talks,
sprints.
Create a testing/production environment.
Promote KDE structured programs among teachers and
students: GSoC, SoK
Promote students to attend to Akademy-es 2012.
Coordinate efforts.
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KDE offers
1 Learning environment.
2 An interesting professional future.
3 R&D environment.
4 Worldwide project.
5 Good software.
6 Open ecosystem.
7 Business network.
8 Expertise. Freedom. Integration. Elegance.
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...and above all
KDE is
FUN
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A relation with KDE offers...
1 Knowledge at low cost to improve local economy.
2 Hiring platform.
3 An real first class innovation environment.
4 Internationalization.
5 A product to build local services upon.
6 New opportunities in other areas related to what KDE
does.
7 Business opportunities.
8 A new approach to solve classic problems many
Universities have.
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Join the Game
The easiest way to collaborate with KDE...
Join The Game
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