People
KDE e.V. elects a board of directors, which represents KDE e.V. and runs its business.
You can contact the board of KDE e.V. at [email protected].
Board of Directors
Lydia Pintscher
President
lydia@kde.org
Lydia Pintscher has been with KDE since 2006. She started doing marketing, and later community and release management for Amarok. She has since moved on to community management and running mentoring programs for all of KDE. She is on the board of directors of KDE e.V. since 2011. In her day-job she does product management for Wikidata at Wikimedia Germany.
Eike Hein
Treasurer and Vice President
hein@kde.org
Eike Hein has been a KDE contributor since 2005. Initially working on applications and later on Plasma as developer and designer, he has also served on KDE's Sysadmin team and co-authored the KDE Manifesto. Eike joined the KDE e.V. board of directors in 2017. In his day job, he is employed by Blue Systems to work on Plasma, KDE Frameworks and the ecosystem around them.
Aleix Pol i Gonzàlez
Vice President
aleixpol@kde.org
Aleix Pol i Gonzàlez has been collaborating with KDE since 2007. He started working in software development in the KDE Education area and KDevelop. Aleix joined the KDE e.V. board of directors in 2014. In his day-job, he is employed by BlueSystems where he has worked with other parts of the community including Plasma and Qt.
Thomas Pfeiffer
Board Member
thomas.pfeiffer@kde.org
Thomas Pfeiffer first got into KDE in 2008 as a participant of Season of Usability, a program for students to do a usability project in a Free Software community. Since then, he has contributed to many different KDE projects as a usability consultant and interaction designer. Since he got engaged in the KDE Vision creation process, Thomas has also increasingly contributed in the area of (public) communication.
Sandro Andrade
Board Member
sandroandrade@kde.org
Sandro Andrade has been collaborating with KDE since 2008. He started doing some development contributions and later moved to doing a sort of actions to strengthen the KDE community in Brazil and Latin-America. He lives in Salvador - Brazil and works, in his day-job, as an assistant professor at IFBA. Sandro joined the KDE e.V. board of directors in 2015.
Staff
Petra Gillert
Assistant of the board
petra@kde.org
