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| # Kanbanara
# A Kanban-Based Project Management System

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## Kanbanara Software Foundation

On 15th December 2017, Rebecca Shalfield made an application to the Charity Commission for the establishment of the Kanbanara Software Foundation as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) with a Foundation model constitution under the Charities Act 2011 to look after Kanbanara's now open-sourced source code.

The Kanbanara Software Foundation is the organisation behind Kanbanara. Become a member of the KSF and help advance the software and our mission.

### Mission Statement

The Kanbanara Software Foundation (KSF) is a United Kingdom-based not-for-profit organisation launched on [date] that holds the intellectual property rights in Kanbanara. We manage the open source licensing for Kanbanara version 1.0 and later and own and protect the trademarks associated with Kanbanara. We fund Kanbanara related development with our grants program and by funding special projects.

The mission of the Kanbanara Software Foundation is:

- to promote, protect, and advance Kanbanara,
- to support and faciliate the growth of a diverse and international community of Kanbanara users and programmers, and
- to foster development of the Kanbanara community and is responsible for various processes within the Kanbanara community, including developing the core Kanbanara distribution, managing intellectual rights and raising funds.

The Kanbanara Software Foundation:

- Produces the core Kanbanara distribution, made available to the public free of charge. This includes Kanbanara itself, its documentation, installers, source code, educational material, and assorted tools and applications.
- Establishes KSF licences, ensuring the rights of the public to freely obtain, use, redistribute, and modify intellectual property held by the KSF.
- Works with the Open Source Initiative to ensure that KSF licences conform to the Open Source Definition.
- Holds the intellectual property rights in all past and future versions of Kanbanara. The KSF may also seek rights to other Kanbanara-related software for relicencing under a KSF licence.
- Protects the Kanbanara name and the names, service marks and trademarks associated with all other intellectual property held by the KSF.
- Solicits and manages contributions to the Kanbanara codebase and may perform these services on behalf of other open source Kanbanara-related codebases.
- Raises funds to support KSF programs and services.
- Publicises, promotes the adoption of, and facilitates the ongoing development of Kanbanara-related technology and educational resources. This includes, but is not limited to, maintaining a public web site, planning Kanbanara conferences, and offering grants to Kanbanara-related open source projects.
- Encourages and facilitates Kanbanara-related research in the public interest.

### Constitution

Click here to view the constitution of the Kanbanara Software Foundation.

### Trustees

The trustees form the members of the Kanbanara Software Foundation's management committee. They are responsible for directing the activities of the KSF, ensuring it remains solvent and well-managed and delivering the outcomes for which the charity was set up.

Trustee | Introduction
--- | ---
Rebecca Shalfield | Rebecca holds a BSc Hons in Computing Science and has been the sole developer of Kanbanara from the very beginning to the present day.

Registered Members demonstrating a commitment to the aims and purposes of the Kanbanara Software Foundation may be invited to become a trustee.

### Committee Roles

Role | Person Responsible
--- | ---
Coordinator | Rebecca Shalfield
Lead Developer | Rebecca Shalfield
Developer | Vacant
Documentation | Rebecca Shalfield (acting)
Researcher | Rebecca Shalfield (acting)
Database Administrator | Rebecca Shalfield (acting)
Web Master | Rebecca Shalfield (acting)
Quality Assurance | Rebecca Shalfield (acting)
Treasurer | Rebecca Shalfield (acting)
Subject Matter Expert | Rebecca Shalfield (acting)

### Membership

By completing a simple registration form, you can become a member of the Kanbanara Software Foundation. Membership of the KSF is completely free. Membership allows you to use the installation of Kanbanara at www.kanbanara.com for non-commercial purposes and ensures you are kept up-to-date with Kanbanara news via the occasional email.

### Voting Rights

With the Kanbanara Software Foundation having a Foundation model constitution, voting rights are restricted to just the trustees.

### Contributors

The following individuals have contributed to Kanbanara:

Contributor | Introduction
--- | ---
Rebecca Shalfield | Developed the Kanbanara source code from the very beginning to the present day.

### User Groups

If you are interested in joining a Kanbanara User Group in the Hastings (East Sussex, UK) area, please do not hestitate to get in contact with Rebecca Shalfield.

### Volunteering

If you feel you would like to help the KSF and the greater Kanbanara community by getting involved in the future development of Kanbanara, please don't hesitate to get in touch. The skills we are looking for are Agile project management, AJAX, CherryPy, CSS 3, d3.js, Font Awesome, HTML 5, Javascript, JQuery, JSON, Kanban, Mako, MongoDB, Pygal, Pymongo, Python 3.6, SCSS and SVG.

### Donations

Assist the Kanbanara Software Foundation's goals with a donation. The KSF is a recognised ??? not-for-profit organisation [Still to be registered].

### Sponsors

Without our sponsors we wouldn't be able to help the Kanbanara community grow and prosper. The KSF would not be possible without the generous financial help of the following sponsors:

Sponsor
Rebecca Shalfield

### KSF Grants Program

The Kanbanara Software Foundation welcomes grant proposals for projects related to the development of Kanbanara, Kanbanara-related technology and educational resources.

### Testimonials

To be completed

### Meetings

It is recommended that the trustees of the Kanbanara Software Foundation meet up at least once a year to discuss progress, future direction and the allocation of roles.

### Expenses

Should funds be available, the Kanbanara Software Foundation will agree to reinburse a trustee's expenses to a meeting or a show such as travelling costs, overnight stay, rental of floor space, printing, hospitality. etc.

### Payments to Trustees

In the event that the Kanbanara Software Foundation makes a profit after deducting expenses, such surplus monies can be awarded to trustees on a case by case basis upon the agreement of all current trustees. Such awards can be in the form of computing equipment, training courses, computing or project management books or donations to another charity of the trustee's choice.

### Dismissal of a Trustee

A non-founding trustee can be dismissed of his or her duties as a trustee upon the agreement of all other trustees.

### Amendments

The governing document can be amended, including its charitable objects, on the agreement of all current trustees.

### Dissolution

Should Kanbanara cease to be cutting edge as a project management system, the Kanbanara Software Foundation can be dissolved on the agreement of all current trustees.

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