Help us Build KDE's 30th Anniversary Web Page

Tell us a story

Did you witness anything funny or extraordinary at a sprint or an event? Did KDE save your company, life or dog from disaster? Have you got a sweet testimonial from a new KDE user you would like to share?

Tell us your story below! We will publish the best on our special 30th Anniversary website.

Sample Story

KDE 3 and the Confused Politician

Agustin Benito and Will Stephenson will remember this.
It was 2009 and we were organising the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit ("we" being a bunch of people from the KDE and GNOME boards, and me, the editor of Linux Magazine Spain at the time) and we had all flown down to Las Palmas to check out the venue and talk to local authorities.
One of them was the councillor for technology from the Cabildo—the local government.
We were touring an Infocentro, a space where locals could come and use the computers, receive CS classes, surf the net, and so on. Bear in mind having Internet at home was not as common back then.
Be as it may, as we made our way around the lab, the councillor pointed to a computer and asked the centre's director: "Why are all these machines running Windows? I thought we said we would be running Linux on some during the event."
The director looked over at the machine the councillor was pointing at and said: "That, sir, is KDE."
Paul Brown

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Share your fact

Do you have any interesting little-known facts about KDE you would like to share?

Share your nugget of KDE knowledge with us below! We'll publish the best on our 30th Anniversary website.

Sample Fact

Most browsers still run KDE software deep down

KDE's web engine was written back in 1998 - 1999 and was subsequently used as the basis for Apple's Webkit and Google's Blink engines. This means that most modern browsers, including Safari, Chrome, Chromium, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi and Brave, use KDE software at their core.
Indeed, if you ever check out your web server's access logs, you will see "KHTML" on nearly every single line.
And, yes, the "K" in "KHTML" stands for "KDE".
Paul Brown

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Send us your photo

Help us fill our gallery! Do you have photos from sprints, meetups, events with KDE people or showing off devices using KDE software? Or maybe you have seen KDE in the wild, on a TV show or movie and managed to capture the shot.

Visit the upload folder that corresponds to your photo's decade and send it to us. The older the better!:

	Remember
	Give your image file a distinctive name (so NOT image01.png) and include a text file with the same name containing a detailed description (year it was taken, names of the people visible in the photo, location, event, some context, etc.), and the attribution details. If your photo is called Me_and_Steven_at_Akademy_2015.jpg make your text file Me_and_Steven_at_Akademy_2015.txt

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