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== Brainstorming ==
== Brainstorming ==
We should ...
We should ...
* Organize big birthday parties all over the world
* [[Promo/Events/Parties/KDE_20_Anniversary|Organize big birthday parties all over the world]]
** We can provide printable posters, ¿cakes? and stuff
* Use the Akademy group pictures to make a timeline for each Akademy attendee
* 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
* KDE1 theme for Plasma
* Grand total of commits/bug reports/bug fixes per person
* Grand total of commits/bug reports/bug fixes per person
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* Publish articles about KDE's birthday in the relevant magazines and news sites
* Publish articles about KDE's birthday in the relevant magazines and news sites
* Provide a press kit for "20 years of KDE"
* 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 ;-)
* Contact old-timers and drag (some of) them to QtCon
* Do a time lapse movie how the KDE desktop changed over time (one frame per release?)
* Get a 20 anniversary design for kde.org
* Do an infographic with a timeline of important KDE dates plus some other important dates when things happened in the world
* Kate got this year [https://kate-editor.org/2010/08/15/kate-history/ 15 years old] (cf. [https://kate-editor.org/2011/08/11/kate-turning-10-years-old/ Kate gets 10 years old]), and Kate is available on Windows as standalone application
* T-Shirts
* ... your idea here
* Have a "celebration" track at Akademy with talks about historic events of the KDE community
 
* Have a "celebration" keynote at Akademy
Feel free to take any task, your help is very welcome!
* 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
== Adopted Tasks ==
* Testimonials from other open source projects
* Lydia pokes people to send trivia questions
* Lydia pokes people to send trivia questions
* Lydia compiles articles about Past, Present and Future of KDE.
* Lydia compiles articles about Past, Present and Future of KDE.
** Testimonials from people born 20 years ago, preferably KDE/FOSS users
** Testimonials from people born 20 years ago, preferably KDE/FOSS users
** Write an article about what KDE produced in the last twenty years
** Write an article about what KDE produced in the last twenty years
* Contact old-timers and drag (some of) them to QtCon
** Testimonials from other open source projects
* Thomas Pfeiffer contacts Tyson to come up with a 20 anniversary konqi and poster
* Lydia requests data visualization projects
* ... your idea here
* 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

Latest revision as of 22:24, 17 July 2016

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
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