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
- We can provide printable posters, ¿cakes? and stuff
Collect live CDs or installed virtual machines with old version of KDE software and make them runnable in the browser
- Helio will do it
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"
Create a web site which shows every single contributor who has committed to the KDE repos over the last twenty years (could be an art project ;-)
Do a time lapse movie how the KDE desktop changed over time (one frame per release?)
Do an infographic with a timeline of important KDE dates plus some other important dates when things happened in the world
T-Shirts
Have a "celebration" track at Akademy with talks about historic events of the KDE community
Have a "celebration" keynote at Akademy
Do an event on the actual day of the birthday with a couple of invited people and a few talks celebrating 20 years of KDE. Maybe at the birthplace?
Testimonials from current and former KDE people what KDE means to them
Testimonials from other open source projects
Contact old-timers and drag (some of) them to QtCon
... your idea here

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
Lydia requests data visualization projects
Thomas Pfeiffer contacts Tyson & Jens to come up with a 20 anniversary konqi and poster