Merry Christmas from KIX!
Broken fairy lights and dusty Christmas decorations are piling up in the cupboards, while the wish lists are stacking up on the desk of the managing director responsible.
The KIX Christmas film
There isn't even a procurement request for the KIX Christmas tree, and time is running out as the festival approaches.
The success of the 2026 annual release largely depends on a successful launch of Christmas 2025, but will Thomas approve the necessary tickets? Enjoy watching!
The entire KIX team wishes you a peaceful Christmas and a happy New Year.
The KIX Christmas story – something to smile about
It was 22 December in Kixlingen, that tiny town with just fifty inhabitants. It looked so sleepy that morning, as if it had never emerged from its beta phase. Snow lay everywhere, so neatly distributed that you could have sworn Thomas himself had aligned it with a ruler.
Thomas was the most precise of the four founding fathers — a strict model personified. Meanwhile, Rico ran tirelessly around the market square, dealing with his workload as always. He checked the fairy lights, the mulled wine stalls and the opening date of the Christmas market. 'Everything must be ready on time!' he shouted, re-branching the Christmas tree — quite literally, as the fir tree now had so many branches that it was impossible to tell which one was the main one.
René came running up and said breathlessly, 'Guys, we're way behind schedule! I still have to do all the communication, but we've only just pulled out last year's decorations!' Then there was Torsten. He sat on a bench at the edge of the market square, sipping his mulled wine and muttering sarcastically: 'Sure, let's decorate everything nicely while nobody realises that in three days' time, we'll have to fix the same bug as last year. But hey, let's set festiveMode=true and pretend everything is fine.'
Die vier hatten Kixlingen einst gegründet, um ein Dorf der Freiheit zu schaffen – ohne Lizenzstress, ohne Lock-in, alles Open Source. Jeder durfte beitragen, jeder durfte Ideen forken. Aber inzwischen war Kixlingen… na ja: ein chaotisches Repository. Manche Einwohner hatten eigene Weihnachtsbäume „geforkt“ und betrieben jetzt ihre eigenen „Distributions“: Einer blinkte pink, einer spielte Dubstep statt Weihnachtsmusik.
The four of them had once founded Kixlingen with the aim of creating a free village—no licensing hassles, no lock-in, and everything open source. Everyone was allowed to contribute and fork ideas. But by now, Kixlingen had become... well, a chaotic repository. Some residents had 'forked' their own Christmas trees and were now running their own 'distributions': one flashed pink and another played dubstep instead of Christmas music.
Worst of all, however, Santa Claus had put Kixlingen on the naughty list. The reason given was 'insufficient documentation of Christmas processes and too many open issues'. 'We have to fix this!' Rico exclaimed. 'Otherwise, there won't be any presents!' 'Oh, come on,' growled Torsten. 'Then we'll just write a fake log saying that everything was perfect. That's how it works everywhere.' “No!” We need stability!” Thomas exclaimed sternly. No hacks! No workarounds!”
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