Ben has created the filedrop for people to upload their birthday wishes videos

https://share.kde.org/s/4EHW9s9iTzTyGbW

these will be saved in /Promo Team Resources/Events/25th Anniversary

Sorry I couldn't make it to the BoF so I don't know whether this idea was already discussed and dismissed:
Since board games are mentioned, how about something with a "Robo Rally"-like gameplay? Promoting KDE *and* potentially getting people familiar with programming basics would be a win-win...

I would like to suggest Linus Torvalds for the list of celebrities.

For a different type of celebrity: Given that our software is used at NASA, potentially somebody that has worked on a programme where KDE software was used could send us friendly message.

In T13198#240707, @xyquadrat wrote:

For a different type of celebrity: Given that our software is used at NASA, potentially somebody that has worked on a programme where KDE software was used could send us friendly message.

Brilliant. Also: CERN, Sincrotron (we actually know people there), other high-profile institutions.

Hello everyone, I know I am late to submit my idea for kde's 25th bday but if you all like it then I can start working on it..

So for kde 25th bday we are already making videos and by 1st June we will have all the videos
I was thinking let's make 2 videos part 1 we will kinda give an idea that on October something is to be announced or something similar, we will keep this video animated, and then part 2 would be the videos we have collected for wishing bday

We will see to it that there is a continuity in both videos, so people love to wait and watch the other half of the video.

And for important people to share msgs we can even do is ask all past keynote speakers to give msgs from there end

@bdhruve I think this is a great idea! Let's start working on it.

The first video can be shown at Akademy?

Thanks Allyson. Yes Allyson we can, I will start working on the video and share the concept with you all.

Are you going to work with the promovideo people for this, @bdhruve ?

Yes Paul, I will work with the promovideo people.

We should also include some classic KDE animations and sounds in the video, such as the "Magical Rope" clip of Konqi:

http://www.kde.org/stuff/clipart/konqi-magical-rope-video-720x576-divx.avi

The source files for that animation can be found here:

https://invent.kde.org/websites/kde-org/-/blob/master/static/stuff/clipart/konqi-magical-rope-video-sources.tar.bz2

I'd also recommend we use this "KDE 3 Drum and Bass Remix," and credit the artist for their 90 second remix of old KDE system sounds.

Hi David, yes we definitely can, infact I loved the "Magical Rope" clip.

The anniversary and the release of Plasma 23 are very close in time: Plasma 23 comes out on the 12th of Oct. and the anniversary is on the 14th. From a Promo point of view, it would make sense to use these events to prop each other up, instead of having them clash and eclipse each other.

Besides, some devs tell us that there will be quite a few new features in 23, and we are planning a competition to renew the sounds and another one to get a new set of wallpapers. A great release to celebrate our anniversary with.

Some ideas:

• We have been "theming" Plasma releases for some time now. This is, we pick a central idea ("the most good-looking release", "the massive-features release", "the stability release") and promotion revolves around that theme. Plasma 23 (pity it isn't 25) should be "the anniversary release".
• Move one event or the other so both happen on the same day
• Include a special 25th anniversary wallpaper
• ...

In T13198#255431, @paulb wrote:

Plasma 23 (pity it isn't 25) should be "the anniversary release".

I don't believe there is any technical reason that it couldn't just skip and be called 25? You'd just need to convince release manager

I don't believe there is any technical reason that it couldn't just skip and be called 25? You'd just need to convince release manager

That would be perfect.

I think it's not appropriate to skip 23 and 24, that would confuse users too much. However, moving the release day makes sense to me.

Renaming the release to Plasma 5.25 is a nice idea :) +1

I would like to add one bullet point to the "what we care about": Reconnect to people who have worked in the KDE community in the past and recognize past contributions.

The birthday might be a good opportunity to dig up some of the stories about what happened in KDE over time and maybe resurface some of the contributors who shaped KDE in the past but aren't active today anymore.

In T13198#258642, @cschumac wrote:

I would like to add one bullet point to the "what we care about": Reconnect to people who have worked in the KDE community in the past and recognize past contributions.

The birthday might be a good opportunity to dig up some of the stories about what happened in KDE over time and maybe resurface some of the contributors who shaped KDE in the past but aren't active today anymore.

Cornelius this is a GREAT Idea! I have noted it and we can chat more on it in the BoF?

BoF for continue planning the 25th anniversary is Thursday, 24 June at 10:00 am UTC (11:00 am BST / 12:00 pm CEST)

There was some discussion at the Plasma BOF.

Changing the release version was an interesting idea, but it didn't really get a lot of support.
We can of course take it to the mailing list if we really want to push for it and keep the discussion going. No promises.

We had agreed that shifting the release by 2 days to be on the day of the anniversary. This did get traction.
Though we also have an email asking us to move a week earlier for Fedora purposes, and we can't do both.

Changing the release version was an interesting idea, but it didn't really get a lot of support.
We can of course take it to the mailing list if we really want to push for it and keep the discussion going. No promises.

That is a pity. Guess we will have to continue insisting, until we wear the devs down 😈.

Or that, or nothing changes in the internal version numbers, and we just call it "Plasma, 25th Anniversary Edition" in promotional materials, making it the leitmotiv of the release, like we called 5.21 "pretty" and 5.22 "stable".

We had agreed that shifting the release by 2 days to be on the day of the anniversary. This did get traction.
Though we also have an email asking us to move a week earlier for Fedora purposes, and we can't do both.

What is the Fedora story? They want to include 5.23 in their next release?

My initial thoughts are that, from a promotional point of view, releasing on the day of the anniversary will have a much bigger impact. Besides, if 5.23 is released two weeks earlier, by the time the anniversary rolls around, it will be old news and all we will have is a random date we will be celebrating.

In T13198#258732, @paulb wrote:

Changing the release version was an interesting idea, but it didn't really get a lot of support.
We can of course take it to the mailing list if we really want to push for it and keep the discussion going. No promises.

That is a pity. Guess we will have to continue insisting, until we wear the devs down 😈.

Or that, or nothing changes in the internal version numbers, and we just call it "Plasma, 25th Anniversary Edition" in promotional materials, making it the leitmotiv of the release, like we called 5.21 "pretty" and 5.22 "stable".

Yes that was also my idea and also changing the user visible places to say KDE Plasma 25th Anniversary Edition like in Kinfocenter, or maybe add it to KSplash, the plymouth theme...

In T13198#255431, @paulb wrote:

• We have been "theming" Plasma releases for some time now. This is, we pick a central idea ("the most good-looking release", "the massive-features release", "the stability release") and promotion revolves around that theme. Plasma 23 (pity it isn't 25) should be "the anniversary release".
• Move one event or the other so both happen on the same day
• Include a special 25th anniversary wallpaper

We talked a bit about this at the plasma bof.
while we don't agree explicitly reversioning it to 25 skipping releases, we agree in not referring to the version number in the release announcement if necessary, and refer to it as "anniversary edition" instead, perhaps miving the release to 14th of october as well

Youtube personalities/Influencers etc that could be contacted:

Level1 Techs
Anthony from Linus Tech Tips
Gaming on Linux

In T13198#258782, @adam wrote:

Youtube personalities/Influencers etc that could be contacted:

Level1 Techs
Anthony from Linus Tech Tips
Gaming on Linux

Adam do you have any way to contact them or could you do so?

In T13198#258784, @allyson wrote:

In T13198#258782, @adam wrote:

Youtube personalities/Influencers etc that could be contacted:

Level1 Techs
Anthony from Linus Tech Tips
Gaming on Linux

Adam do you have any way to contact them or could you do so?

Those are youtube channels/websites so I assume you contact them same way as you usually contact press. Unless someone has a more personal relation with any of those (I don't)

I've put the tasks on the new board here: https://phabricator.kde.org/tag/kde_s_25th_anniversary_celebration/ now. Please pick tasks you think you can handle or help with. October is closer than we think ;-)

Inspired by the "Desktop through the ages" task: it could also be nice to look at the lineage tree of the KDE desktop stack. I.e. which parts/technologies/apps begat other ones, which parts did we "lose"?, how far back can we trace existing apps? E.g. xpdf begat kpdf begat okular

Visually, I think of a lineage tree like this one: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Linux_Distro_Timeline.png, not a linear representation like timeline.kde.org...

Sounds fun. Wanna create a ticket for it on the 25th anniversary board?

In T13198#259279, @lydia wrote:

Sounds fun. Wanna create a ticket for it on the 25th anniversary board?

Done: T14647