is a registered non-profit organization that represents the KDE community in the legal and financial entities.

It's the first KDE community meeting with 15 participants, and budget is 14000 DEM (7158 EUR).

Matthias Kalle Dalheimer realized that it wasn't a good idea to channel thousands of money through his personal account to run the meeting, so he wanted to find an association.

[5] In October 1999, the following candidates were elected to the board in KDE Two, Kurt Granroth became president, Chris Schläger became vice president, Mirko Boehm became treasurer, and Preston Brown became board member.

meeting, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer became president, Mirko Boehm became treasurer, and Eva Brucherseifer and Ralf Nolden became board member.

and Wikimedia Deutschland have opened shared offices in Frankfurt, and has the first KDE e.V.

meeting, Cornelius Schumacher became president, Adriaan de Groot and Frank Karlitschek became vice president, and Sebastian Kügler and Celeste Lyn Paul became board member.

and Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) moved into shared offices in Berlin.

Georg Greve, founder of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) was first to 'join the game'.

The Patron of KDE is the highest level of supporting member, are: SUSE, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, and Nokia.

is an associate organization of the FSFE[27][28] and a licensee of the Open Invention Network.

organizes and subsidizes events including developer sprints, Camp KDE and Akademy.

Currently members are Troy Unrau, Franz Keferböck and Wade Olson.

[38] After one year, the Technical Working Group has been replaced by the Release team, that is independent of KDE e.V..