Randa Meetings 2014 fundraising

€15397.06 raised of a €20000 goal

The Randa Meetings 2014 Fundraiser has finished. Thank you everybody who supported us in this fundraiser. We didn't reach the set goal but we collected quite some money and that means there is going to be Randa Meetings in August 2014. See http://planet.kde.org for more information to come and go to the KDE donation page if you want to support us further.

For the fifth year, the intense sprints in Randa, Switzerland will include key KDE projects and top developers, all working concurrently under one roof, isolated from noise and distractions.

Previous Randa Meetings have been concentrated and productive, generating exceptional results; organizers and participants expect the same and more this year. And the meetings have produced significant breakthroughs for KDE software users and developers.

• KDE Frameworks 5 were started at the Randa Meetings in 2011
• Kdenlive came closer to KDE in 2011
• After a discussion with the Qt offices in Brisbane it was decided to keep Phonon and further develop it

Participants donate their time to help improve the software you love and this is why we need money to cover hard expenses like accommodation and travel to get the volunteer contributors to Randa. If you are not attending, you can still support the Randa Meetings by making a donation. As in the past, the Randa Meetings will benefit everyone who uses KDE software.

We have a fundraising goal of €20000. Please donate what you can to help make the Randa Meetings 2014 possible. This fund campaign ends on the 9th of July (one month before the beginning of the Randa Meetings 2014).

Randa Meetings 2014 projects:

• Amarok/Multimedia/Phonon
• KDE Books
• KDE Edu and GCompris
• KDE Frameworks 5 porting
• KDE SDK
• Kdenlive
• Gluon

Links:

• Website of the Randa Meetings
• Participants and plans for the Randa Meetings 2014
• More information about past and current Randa Meetings

Read more about the Randa Meetings and the Fundraising on KDE.News where you can write your comments.

The costs for the Randa Meetings 2014 are composed of the following items:

• International travel costs: EUR 10'000
• Swiss train tickets: EUR 3'000
• House rental: EUR 4'000
• Expense allowance: EUR 2'000
• Miscellaneous: EUR 1'000

Even if we don't reach our ambitious goal, the money received will be spent for the Randa Meetings (although with fewer participants) or other KDE purposes (like other sprints).

If you prefer to use international bank transfers please see this page.
Please write us an email so we can add you to the list of donors manually.

List of donations