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  KDE Celebrates 10 Years of the Free Desktop
Community and Events Posted by Jonathan Riddell on Saturday 14/Oct/2006, @07:03
from the almost-a-teenager dept.
Yesterday at 10:00 AM the president of the KDE e.V. Eva Brucherseifer welcomed the audience of the presentation track at the KDE anniversary event at the Technische Akademie Esslingen (TAE) in Ostfildern near Stuttgart, Germany. Keynote speakers were Matthias Ettrich, founder of the KDE project, as well as Klaus Knopper of Knoppix fame. During their presentations they looked back at KDE's successful past 10 years and they offered their thoughts about the future of KDE and Free Software.

Jono Bacon, Canonical's community manager of Ubuntu / Kubuntu, congratulated KDE with his own presentation about Kubuntu and KDE. Jan Mühlig from Relevantive and Daniel Molkentin, KDE e.V. talked about Usability and KDE 4. In the afternoon the audience of the presentation track met for a group photo and celebrated the event with sparkling wine and a big birthday cake. Even our Konqi mascot of the project was present - this time made of marzipan, right on the top of the birthday cake.

Right after the afternoon break the presentation track continued with a speech from Heinz-M. Gräsing from the city of Treuchtlingen who gave some insights about the successful migration of Treuchtlingen to KDE.

The presentation part of the anniversary was concluded by Knut Yrvin, community manager at Trolltech, who surveyed the KDE 10 Years raffle together with Eva Brucherseifer. As prizes Trolltech offered a Qtopia Greenphone and Open Source Press offered Daniel Molkentin's new book about Qt4 programming.

Further KDE people arrived at the TAE in the evening when people met in the cottage for a delicious big "italian" dinner. We clinked glasses later at midnight when the date turned into the actual anniversary.

The KDE project would like to thank the speakers of the presentation track, the Technische Akademie Esslingen, Trolltech and Open Source Press for their support of the whole event. A special "thank you" goes to the confectioner who created that awesome marzipan dragon for the cake. And of course we would like to thank all the people who were not able to attend the event and who sent their nice wishes to the KDE Project.



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Congrats Konqi!
by Thomas Zander on Saturday 14/Oct/2006, @10:12
Nice party, I hope more countries had parties for themselves.

I'm not sure if its a trend, but the stuffed konqies I've seen over the years tend to get more fluffy and basically younger looking. This one on the cake is just cute and looks like a dragon of 10 years! (assuming they get to live at least to a hundred)

New marketing slogan? "We just keep on looking younger!"
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10 years of nice desktop!
by fredy on Saturday 14/Oct/2006, @11:25
This reminds me when first time I tried Linux... KDE 1.x was the only desktop used, and since that I always use KDE as my desktop, KDE 2.x, and all of KDE 3 series plus now KDE 4 from svn. In 10 years we have already seen this project growing in every aspect. Wish all the best for the project and also for all great developers, contributors, artists and all people involved. Thanks for all your work!

From forever fan of KDE.
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Congratulations!
by Derek R. on Saturday 14/Oct/2006, @11:40
I just want to say Happy Anniversary for all involved in KDE, and a big 'Thank You' to all who have made KDE desktop possible. You guys rock!

A proud KDE user, of course :)
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Happy 10 years KDE and Konqui
by JC on Saturday 14/Oct/2006, @12:01
It's also my personal 10 years of linux this year.
A few months ago in fact.
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Ten years already?
by Boudewijn Rempt on Saturday 14/Oct/2006, @12:03
Oh, dear... Do I feel old? Yes, I do. I read the original announcement and wondered what the fuss was about... I mean, nobody would ever need more than fvwm1 and a couple of xterms, right? And then -- the system requirements were insane! No way the first verison of KDE would run on my 8MB 486 workstation!

Little did I know...
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My photos
by Thomas Fischer on Saturday 14/Oct/2006, @12:22
If you are interested, here are some of my photos from celebration:
http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/10yearsKDE/
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KDE -- you are the best!
by Paul Koshevoy on Saturday 14/Oct/2006, @14:12
Happy Birthday KDE! I love you!

Where I would like to see you improve -- Please, Please Please implement support for OSX style application bundles -- it would make it so much easier for me to make distributable packages for you if you would support them.

Don't pay attention to the clueless dorks who are suggesting that you should switch everything from C++ to something else, use GTK libs or reimplement everything to be a GUI front end to CLI commands -- those are incredibly bad ideas. You are pretty much perfect the way you are (especially on openSUSE). Next steps should be to make yourself more accessible for non-core Qt/KDE developers. Adding support for a flexible packaging scheme like the bundles used on OSX would go a long way towards that.

Paul.
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Congraturation! KDE 10th anniversary!
by Cho Sung-Jae on Saturday 14/Oct/2006, @18:31
Korea KDE Team, we also had the party to celebrate KDE 10th anniversary. :)

I wish KDE that would be present to the world's people.

Our photo is in http://socmaster.homelinux.org/~jachin/57, my personal blog.

(Our team site also will be renewal.)
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Congrats ! and well done !
by Uwe on Saturday 14/Oct/2006, @20:54
I am proud of you and KDE, a successful non-anglo-american FOSS project.
Keep the good work up !

My wish for the next 10 years ?
Firstly, that I can make it my preferred desktop when KDE offers non-saturated colours and quality icons.
Secondly, that it offers non-cluttered menus (eventually levels of desire to tweak the system). I should use Gnome, then ? I could, but KDE is technically the better alternative.
Thirdly, drop Konqueror and integrate Firefox/IceWeasel into KDE.

Thanks again, and looking forward to the next 10 years,
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Congratulations!
by Darkelve on Sunday 15/Oct/2006, @08:04
Congratulations to the KDE team!

KDE 3.5.x is the best! B)
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Nice laptop
by Marc Driftmeyer on Sunday 15/Oct/2006, @09:04
no words need to be added.
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Simply... amazing...
by George Ssali on Monday 16/Oct/2006, @00:54
Hey team,

Happy 10th birthday. Thank you,no really, THANK YOU, for such a great desktop enviroment. I can't wait for the day when I can make my contribution to this stable, beautiful, ever-evolving desktop without which i (literally) gag.

Congratulations again.
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Party photos
by Bille on Monday 16/Oct/2006, @11:08
I took a few more photos at the party in the evening:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wstephenson/sets/72157594331305112/
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:D congratulations!
by zero1 on Wednesday 01/Nov/2006, @17:25
long live KDE! woohooo! keep up the great work on the best Linux desktop environment! you rawk dudes! :D
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Happy Birthday KDE!
by Tony on Wednesday 08/Nov/2006, @18:07
Thanks to all the developers out there working on KDE and the Linux community for their work and unifying people and machines worldwide.
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Very good job! !You are the best!!
by Roberto on Monday 11/Dec/2006, @07:00
Hi! Team,

Happy 10th birthday!!Very good job!!You are the best!!
Thanks
Roberto
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Cool KDE just never stops getting better!
by Will Castro on Wednesday 21/Feb/2007, @19:37
I say that "KDE Rocks" and the 10th anniversary is a wonderful thing. I'd love to contribute when I sharpen my programming skills!
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a Happy birthday to you from egypt
by Hossam on Saturday 03/Mar/2007, @10:00
if KDE wasn't born i wont be using Linux right now, i would be paying $$$ for buggy feature-less os and another $$$$ for its feature-less applications
i knew Linux through KDE and that's how i am sticking with it
happy birthday and "3okbal me2at sana"="wish you 100 years" as we say it in Arabic :)
10000 roses to the KDE community, i wish i can contribute with more than words :(
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Sto Lat! (Polish birthday song)
by Boyle M. Owl on Thursday 16/Aug/2007, @22:38
Sto lat, sto lat, Niech &#380;yje, &#380;yje nam.
Sto lat, sto lat, Niech &#380;yje, &#380;yje nam,
Jeszcze raz, jeszcze raz, niech &#380;yje, &#380;yje nam,
Niech &#380;yje nam!

:-D

--
BMO
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