**Deadline to Submit Ideas is on October 31st 2020**
On October 14th 2021 KDE turns 25. We should celebrate this.
What we care about:
* Celebrating for our community
* Showing the world a remarkable long-term success
* Reflecting on how we changed over the years
* Giving a hopeful outlook and build enthusiasm for the years to come
Ideas for what we could do:
* Events
** Make Akademy happen around the birthday and get many people together
** Organize parties around the world
* Do something similar to https://20years.kde.org/book/
* Update the timeline at https://timeline.kde.org/
* 25 for 25: encourage people to become supporting members (25 Euro/quarter) (would need work on making the supporting membership program more attractive)
* Find a way for users to show their appreciation for contributors
** Send in a thank you video from all over the world - the more interesting the location the better
* 25 days of KDE - tell a story around a contributor or KDE project every day for 25 days leading up to the birthday
* Stream some KDE work for 25 minutes at a time - watch someone submit a patch, do some bug triage, translate something, etc
* Do something on the main page of kde.org
* 25 unusual/cool/weird/exciting places where KDE is used
* 25 things you can do to help KDE
* Get an artist to do some cool artwork that people will want to put up in their living room
* Count-down to the time the original announcement was sent 25 years ago
* ...
Still to do:
* Look into some interesting stuff that other projects have done
Notes from BoF:
Notes from BoF (apologies if anything was missed):
Do not restrict to just a party but also what kinds of things we can do around it
Timeline updates:
• Adding Akademies
• Major releases
• KDE Movie appearances over time
Specially branded, 25th anniversary items that can be sold and available globally. These could be available for online purchase for a limited time:
- Mug
- Beer mug
- Drink tumbler (plastic or non/less-breakable alternative to a mug)
- -Maybe find a sustainable or environmentally friendly company to partner with
- Laptop sleeve
- Ceramic coaster
- Special edition tshirt/hoodies/shorts in unisex and fitted options
- Toy (plush or action figure Konqi)
- Board game or card game
- -KDE Uno
- -KDE Card deck with custom card faces and backs
Having an artist create some memorabilia (can be 3D-printed or something else) (Poster)
- This could be combined with an option when buying to become supporting members that subscribe within a given time frame
- -i.e. 25 days before/after the anniversary date
Who can do new artwork (STILL NEED A VISION FOR THE ARTWORK):
- Kai Uwe
- Rutte
- Erzählmirnix
- David Revoy
- -Paul Brown has contact.
- Elias Silveira
Social media based ideas (videos that can be published before/during the anniversary party(s):
- An evolution of KDE
- -Time lapse of desktop screenshots
- -Time lapse of different KDE people over the years (showing KDE is more than just a desktop environment, but a community)https://devel-home.kde.org/~duffus/akademy/attendees/
- Similar video to the welcome video
- -"Happy Birthday" wishes in different languages
- -Possibly filmed at famous landmarks in different cities
- -Horizontal filming
- -Posted/shown on the anniversary day - as an opening to the event that will take place
- 25 days of "What KDE Means to Me"
- -Again filmed at different landmarks
- -No selfies if all possible - horizontal filming (ask a friend to film or set up a tripod)
- -Messages preferably in English for this one
- -Videos posted on each day can contain 4 messages that are no more than 10 minutes each
- -These can be "episodes" due to length; 25 episodes in total, starting 26 days before the anniversary
Ask "Important People" to send KDE a special, congratulatory message.Possible speakers:
- Miguel de Icaza
- Elon Musk
- Someone from GNOME
- Mattias
- Merkel
- Mark Rutte
- Maddog
- Linus Torvalds
- NASA
- CERN
- Sincrotron
Konqi Minetest
Press outreach
In-Person Ideas:
- 25 small events in different cities/countries
- -Can be hosted at local universities if needed/desired
- -Possible kick off for the KDE Network also
- -Use BBB to conference each location together with the main location (26th location) in Berlin
- -Have a talk/speaker at each event; possibly like a impromptu mini talk with 2 or 3 members saying a few words