Being part of the international KDE community conveys certain benefits:
- To stand on the shoulders of giants
- Make use of KDE infrastructure for project hosting
- Benefit from the experience of the KDE sysadmins
- Get support from the larger community with development, documentation, translation, testing, bug handling, etc.
- Use opportunities to integrate with a large ecosystem of end-user products
- Interaction with teams that have common values, leading to the cross-pollination of ideas and innovations
- Enjoy representation and support by KDE e.V.
- Participate in Akademy and other KDE events
- Receive financial and organizational support
- Know that your trademarks can be secured
- Know that your licensing wishes can be protected via the Fiduciary Licensing Agreement
- Increase your visibility through the reputation of the KDE community and KDE promotion tools such as:
- publishing project updates at KDE Blogs and employing other KDE promotion channels
- having your project reachable through a subdomain under kde.org
- having a #kde-<projectname> IRC channel on the Libera Chat network
- using KDE as an umbrella brand to associate with the KDE community for communication on web sites and other channels
