Cutting back on hours

Dear Fellow Promoers,

As you know, I am contracted by KDE e.v. to carry out promotional and 
communication tasks, as well as to help build up, settle and coordinate a team 
of people who also carry out these kind of tasks. 

As time has gone by and the ambitions of the Promo team have risen, so has the 
time necessary to coordinate and carry out all the actions we get assigned or 
assign to ourselves. This has had measurable positive impact. For one we now 
have a stable team of people (you) who are self-starters, have taken on tasks 
that they consistently carry out to their completion and that also largely 
agree on the fundamentals of how our tasks should be carried out -- which 
helps decrease conflict and increases productivity.

For another, numbers don't lie and looking at the data (which you can do here:  
https://share.kde.org/s/ItlX9FfMunCADO5), we have consistently grown the 
visibility of KDE, both of our Community and the software we produce, on all 
fronts we work on and there is a visible improvement on all metrics from 2017 
onward. We are also managing to change the perception of KDE and myths and FUD 
about the software being clunky, or buggy, or ugly, or dead are fading away 
fast.

The flip side is that, for the last two and a half years, I have not had the 
time to do hardly any other contract work due to the fact that KDE has 
gradually absorbed most of my waking hours. The problem is my contract is only 
for 30 hours a week and I have had no substantial raise in several years. Both 
things combined have led me to a financially difficult situation. Due to certain 
legal and bureaucratic constraints, the Board and I have been unable to find a 
solution to this problem.

In consequence, and while the problem persists, I am urgently forced to cut 
back the time I spend working on KDE-related tasks to seek other jobs that 
will allow provide me with additional sources of revenue.

I am telling you this now because the latest Plasma 5.18 crunch combined with 
the other regular promo tasks have pushed the time spent on KDE-related work 
well over the 30-hour mark this week and I have to spend the rest of the week 
on other stuff.

I apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you and thank you for your 
patience. 

See y'all next week.

Cheers

Paul
-- 
Promotion & Communication

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