20th birthday

KDE will celebrate its 20th birthday on 14th of October 2016. It all started with this email.

Brainstorming

We should ...

• Organize big birthday parties all over the world
• Use the Akademy group pictures to make a timeline for each Akademy attendee
• KDE1 theme for Plasma
• Grand total of commits/bug reports/bug fixes per person
• Sell signed limited edition KDE software release
• Promo video, showcased as primary part of KDE.org homepage. Showing examples of KDE software in use all over the world.
• Party with major press, not only tech invited, to show KDE to world
• Update behindkde.org with more content
• People/Organizations behind KDE videos/documentaries
• Do a special event at QtCon where we invite relevant people from KDE's history, have a series of brief lightning talks from them, record them, celebrate
• Do an interview with the founders of KDE at the original place where it happened (it supposedly was a table in the cafeteria)
• Publish articles about KDE's birthday in the relevant magazines and news sites
• Provide a press kit for "20 years of KDE"
• Contact old-timers and drag (some of) them to QtCon
• Get a 20 anniversary design for kde.org
• Kate got this year 15 years old (cf. Kate gets 10 years old), and Kate is available on Windows as standalone application
• ... your idea here

Feel free to take any task, your help is very welcome!

Adopted Tasks

• Lydia pokes people to send trivia questions
• Lydia compiles articles about Past, Present and Future of KDE.
  • Testimonials from people born 20 years ago, preferably KDE/FOSS users
  • Write an article about what KDE produced in the last twenty years
  • Testimonials from other open source projects
• Lydia requests data visualization projects
• Thomas Pfeiffer contacts Tyson & Jens to come up with a 20 anniversary konqi
  • We can provide printable posters
  • ¿cakes design?
  • T-shirt?
• Helio collects live CDs or installed virtual machines with old version of KDE software and make them runnable in the browser