In case you’re sleeping under a rock today, KDE is celebrating its 14th birthday. I still see myself as a newbie round these parts, but I can already think of fourteen things I’ve experienced that made me and make me part of KDE.

To be free to try To be free to fail To be given the support to succeed To be welcomed To be treated as an equal To learn from the best To be thanked To help people beyond KDE, working for the same goals To use old skills and gain new ones To meet your neighbours from the other side of the world To become a pragmatist To remain an idealist To get it done To Join the Game, not only watch it

Or, in short, to be Free. Whether that is a means, an end or an effect, for me it describes everything we do.