KDE - Sponsorship Thanks

Sponsorship Thanks

KDE Meetings Sponsors

Meeting	Logo
aKademy 2007 Several companies have helped by donating money, equipment or organizational help to make possible. aKademy 2007 Sponsors Page
aKademy 2006 Several companies have helped by donating money, equipment or organizational help to make possible. aKademy 2006 Sponsors Page
aKademy 2005 Several companies have helped by donating money, equipment or organizational help to make possible. aKademy 2005 Sponsors Page
aKademy 2004 Several companies have helped by donating money, equipment or organizational help to make possible. aKademy 2004 Sponsors Page
Kastle Several companies have helped by donating money, equipment or organizational help to make possible. Kastle Sponsors Page
Universität der Bundeswehr (University of the Federal Armed Forces), Hamburg, Germany Provided support and access to its facilities during the 2002 KDE e.V. members meeting.

Several companies have helped by donating money, equipment or organizational help to make KDE Three possible. For a complete list of the sponsors see the KDE Three Meeting report.

Funding, donations in equipment and logistic help was granted by a large number of sponsors to the big KDE Two event. For a complete list of the sponsors see the KDE Two information page.

Several companies have helped by donating money, equipment or organizational help to make KDE One possible. For a complete list of the sponsors see the KDE One information page.

KDE General Sponsors

Contribution	Sponsor Logo
Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Germany Hosting They provide us with hosting for `immanuel.kde.org` which host a number of KDE critical services, including `bugs.kde.org` and `master-eu.kde.org`.
DELL Hardware A DELL PowerEdge 1750 with 2x3GHz P4 and 4GB RAM was donated by DELL to KDE e.V., which hosts bugs.kde.org. Many thanks to Thorsten Staerk from DELL who made this possible.
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Hosting They provide hosting for `ktown.kde.org` which hosts the KDE.org mail server, mailing lists and FTP master services among many many other things.
Annahoeve Conference Centre The Annahoeve is a conference centre in the south of the Netherlands which has kindly hosted the NL-PIM and KDE Four Multimedia meetings.
Semprix Layout and DTP Semprix provided the DTP support surrounding the KDE Four Multimedia meeting, including the participants handbook and the meeting programme.
Cyberlogic Hardware Cyberlogic provided the media equipment needed for the functioning of the KDE booth at CLLAP 2006.
University of Bonn, Germany Hosting `ftp.kde.org` which has increased bandwidth and accessibility a lot.
SUSE Hosting They provide hosting for `svn.kde.org`, the SVN server for KDE developers. Employer SUSE pays KDE developers Stephan Kulow, Lubos Lunak and Dirk Müller to work on KDE development. SUSE also employs around 10 KDE developers who are free to work on KDE during their work time.
OSU Open Source Lab Hosting Provides hosting for KDE Dot News and also graciously providing us with both Xen virtual hosting and full network connectivity.
Trolltech Hosting Hosts a dedicated server for `www.kde.org`, our DNS servers and domain name registration of kde.org and koffice.org . Employer Trolltech sponsors KDE developer David Faure for working part time on KDE and Koffice.
University of Tübingen, Germany Hosting `kdorf.kde.org` which provides the anonsvn.kde.org and websvn.kde.org services.
Mandriva Linux Hosting Hosted webcvs.kde.org in the past. Employer Employs KDE developer Laurent Montel and employed David Faure, Daniel M. Duley and Chris Molnar in the past.
Kitty Hooch Employer Eric Laffoon's company is sponsoring the KDE Developer Andras Mantia to work full-time on Quanta Plus.
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult Employer Employs KDE developer David Faure.
OpenOffice Polska Employer Employs the KDE developer Jarosław Staniek to work full time on Kexi and KDE libraries for MS Windows port.
RICOH Hardware A RICOH Aficio CL4000DN laser color printer is gratiously made available to the KDE printing developers for testing of new proffesional printer options supported by recent versions of CUPS. Many thanks to George Liu, Linux engineer at Ricoh, who initiated and facilitated this.
IBM Hardware Donated two xSeries x232 servers which are now our new ktown.kde.org and kdorf.kde.org.Read the dot story for specifications.
MAXDATA Hardware Donated a MAXDATA Platinum II machine as a new server to KDE. A very powerful dual server with RAID capabilities, this machine became the new FTP master server of the KDE project.
Vobis Microcomputer AG, Germany Hardware Donated an Alpha Workstation which served as FTP and mailing list server. The alpha replaced venerable fiwi02.
Rebel.com Hardware Provided KDE with three NetWinder Developer computer systems for use in KDE development and presentations. The NetWinder Developer is a small but powerful computer running GNU/Linux.
Quant-X Hardware Wolfgang Dreyer of Quant-X, Austria, donated 128 MBytes of RAM for our alpha. We were able to maintain 200 simultaneous ftp sessions with it.
Bee GmbH Hardware Kindly donated 128 MBytes of RAM as well as a 4 GB hard disk for the former ftp.kde.org.
ixsoft Hardware Kindly donated a CD writer to KDE.
germany.net Hosting kindly offered to host a full bandwidth internet connection, which KDE can use without any limitations. We use it currently to offer daily snapshots and as ftp mirror.
Gigabell Hosting Offers us a dedicated machine we currently use as the German ftp mirror.
GoDaddy Software Kindly signed the SSL certificates we use for services on the kde.org subdomains.
ParaSoft Software Donated time-limited insure++ licenses to KDE developers to enhance the code quality of KDE.
KAI Software Software Donated a KCC license to KDE developers to enhance the portability of KDE to this excellent compiler.
ElCel Technology Software donated their OASIS XML Catalog Conformance Test Suite to KDE & the Open Source community.

Financial Donations to KDE

Contribution	Sponsor Logo
Cuxhafen Financial Donation Patrick Götz of has made several donations in the past including EUR 1000 on November 14th, 2005.
2X Software Ltd Financial Donation Nick Galea from 2X Software Ltd, (the developers of Thin Client and Terminal server software for linux) donated USD 2500.- to the KDE e.V. on April 5th, 2005.
Fachbuchhandlung Lehmanns (Bookshop), Germany Financial Donation Donated DM 5000,- from the sale of a benefit CD-ROM containing KDE-Beta 2. Part of the money (donated in advance) was used for the developer meeting KDE One. Also, Lehmanns donated to the KDE team, in March 1999, DM 4500,- from the sales of another benefit CD-ROM containing KDE 1.0.
Computer & Literatur Verlag (publisher), Germany Financial Donation Donated DM 3500,- to KDE. A part of the money was raised by a discount sale on the trade fair SYSTEMS 98 in Munich.

More donations are listed on the KDE Paypal Contributions page.

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