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+ +A few of this people are still active, some of them many of the current active KDE community members have never heard of. +The group pictured above isn't that diverse either. +It looks a bit like you take a group photo of some computer science course in a university in Germany of that time. +And yes, I am on that photo, too (as usual, wrongly written as Cullman, like [my nice county](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullman_County,_Alabama)). +I actually fished that picture out of my private data storage .P + +Let's take a look at the Akademy 2020 group photo below (CC BY 4.0, created by the Akademy team): + +
+ +This looks a lot more like the KDE community we all know and love. +Therefore it would be fantastic if active people take care to join the e.V., too! + +If you want to join, just take a short look at [this guide](https://ev.kde.org/getinvolved/members.php). + +You will need some e.V. member that suggests you, I assume you will know someone from the [e.V. members list](https://ev.kde.org/members/) to ask to do so.