Who we are

This issue we asked our experts: KDE is 20 years old, so what have you achieved in the past 20 years, other than getting a bit heavier…

Jonni Bidwell

I fulfilled my childhood dream of working for a magazine ending in “Format”. And I read Proust (spoiler alert: nothing happens. Also: those sentences, full of subclauses, rambling meanderings and not a full stop till halfway down the page, wouldn’t get past our production “team”.)

Nate Drake

Twenty years ago I began my tenure at a Hogwarts-esque secondary school. Notable highlights of my colourful time since then include crashing a tank, sipping vodka in Red Square, studying modern languages (until I discovered Linux) and rediscovering the lost city of Ubar.

Adam Oxford

I still open up Facebook every now and then, so imagine my surprise when an invite to a 20th anniversary reunion of my graduate class popped up in my newsfeed. I’ve been in the workplace exactly as long as KDE, and I’ve been through about as many controversial reinventions too.

Les Pounder

I’ve been a Linux user for almost 20 years, and in that time I’ve grown from a Windows user, confused by the sheer choice Linux presented to him, to a confident Linux user who has learnt and shared his skills with others, who in turn have passed on those skills to others.

Shashank Sharma

Coincidentally, 2017 marks my 31st year on this spinning blue ball and is exactly 20 years since I discovered GPL and open source software. I used the latter to earn a living as an author and tech writer. And I was inspired by the former to pursue a career as a trial lawyer.