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
• 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
• Contact old-timers and drag (some of) them to QtCon
• Thomas Pfeiffer contacts Tyson & Jens to come up with a 20 anniversary konqi and poster
• ... your idea here