 You might know that KDE every 1st of April does a joke, some kind of joke, and you might be wondering actually how does KDE choose what jokes to make on the 1st of April? Well usually how it goes is that throughout the year somebody makes a joke and then we say well you know what that could work the 1st of April and this adds up and then when actually we're getting close to the 1st of April me or somebody else actually goes back and searches for 1st of April in all of the KDE chats that that's at least how I do this and writes down all of the ideas that were sent throughout the year and there's a message saying okay which one should we go for and now I'm going to go by memory so maybe I'm not remember everything correctly but I want to talk slightly about how GNOME work to be because that was actually kind of funny so we did the 1st of April joke one year and shortly after that there was a talk of saying okay but what if we got actually GNOME involved and I think it was just like a few days after the 1st of April or something like that so everybody just kind of forgot about it until the 1st of April of the next year and one month before that I just went into the promotion group and was like hey 15 months sorry 11 months ago with this idea that sounds pretty cool how about we actually act on this and the cool thing is that the promotion group of KDE does actually have ties to the promotion group of GNOME and if I remember correctly back then there was actually a person from the GNOME promotion group that got engaged in KDE promo group even before that to um I don't remember look around somewhat I don't quite remember so it was actually pretty easy to get started and I discovered that GNOME does actually also have a promotion group that's freely available available sorry for everyone to join and back then I actually joined the GNOME promotion group which is not called like that but you know I don't remember and we proposed the idea and the GNOME people were actually very interested in participating so now that we actually decided to do something together we had to decide what and you might say okay GNOME doing GNOME is such an obvious joke so but there were there were actually other options as well and one of the options that really lasted until the end I don't know if I should talk about this maybe we'll do it in the future but let's let's say it but don't talk about it too much was actually to do a joint announcement without saying that it was a joint announcement and to me KDE say make KDE say that it was actually switching to JDK and make GNOME say that it was switching to QT the same day I thought that was going to be pretty funny but eventually we thought okay let's just merge the project and do GNOME and most of the GNOME promotion material actually got from the KDE promotion group but we often we you can see this mock up and this mock up are done by manual which is very active in the visual design group of KDE then there was for the website I think core Carl Carl did most of the job actually buying the domain and setting it up and Carl is from the promotion and visual design and development KDE work groups and we often actually asked GNOME for feedback and we also asked them to make statements to actually embed into the GNOME website and back then if you if you went to the GNOME website you had statements from Alex Paul which is currently the KDE AV board director it's not called director but the boss of the KDE AV board and then we also add the boss of GNOME which is also not called the boss of GNOME but I'm weird we're weird enough I don't know that well the names of the GNOME position organizations so sorry about that however not everybody even in the KDE community not everybody thought this was going to be fun and we actually did some mock ups of some projects of KDE together with projects of GNOME like mixing all of the concepts and some of the maintainers of the KDE projects actually got in the KDE promo group saying please remove this part because I don't think this is a good idea take off this part which was I mean it's the right for the project not to be mentioned in such thing if they want but we thought you're killing all of the fun but eventually we did make this and it went pretty well in the last round of April Fool's idea which again I collected on the first of April there were some very nice ideas like one idea as an example was that K-Runner actually manages to do covid tests just by typing covid tests and it would come out as either positive or negative and we would advertise the feature that it would actually be able to do the covid test just by KDE because KDE is able to do everything and we even had this version where you actually had to leak the screen to actually get your covid test done that was a nice idea but people rightfully say that maybe joking about a pandemic wasn't the best idea so we discarded that there were there was also an idea to actually make a notification I'm talking about this because all of this idea got discarded so we probably want to have them a notification that was about KDE Plasma actually requiring a key to unlock so a bit like Windows you know like we insert the KDE license key to enable Windows just the same thing but in a KDE Plasma notification we actually added a mock up I don't remember sorry who did the mock up that was pretty funny but we thought that could be let's say interpreted in the wrong way because there's even though you're doing a joke and it's clear it's a joke there's always going to be that one person that actually believes in it so and eventually we went with a Knotch or as I call it the Scotch which was actually published on my channel but yeah and I think that the cool thing about all of these ideas is that there is no such thing as the KDE secret chat about the first of April false joke even for the Knomon this was all done public publicly in the KDE promotion group and its related chats so everybody can actually join the KDE promo group and propose an idea for the first of April and even if you do it now I'm gonna write that down and you know next year when the first half of April comes I'll read that and we'll discuss it so if you think that KDE should make some kind of April false joke well you're more than welcome to actually join the promotion group and start discussing with us if you do that like one week before first of April that's even better about what could be done and that's usually a very funny part of being part of the KDE promotion group which you can join easily even if you're not a KDE developer and anybody can join if you want to help out so I'm just going to leave that there