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Akademy 

Akademy is the annual world summit of KDE, one of the largest Free Software communities in the world. It is a free, non-commercial event organized by the KDE Community.

Akademy 2024
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The conference is expected to draw hundreds of attendees from the global KDE Community to discuss and plan the future of the Community and its technology. Many participants from the broad free and open source software community, local organizations and software companies will also attend.

Akademy features a 2-day conference with presentations on the latest KDE developments, followed by 4 days of workshops, Birds of a Feather (BoF) and coding sessions. It is an opportunity to meet key KDE contributors, learn about the latest features and enjoy the great atmosphere. You will meet developers, artists, translators, upstream and downstream maintainers, users, and free and open software industry leaders from all over the world.

Akademy 2025 is a hybrid event, in Berlin, Germany & online from Saturday 6th - Thursday 11th September

Pre-order your Akademy 2015 t-shirt

Akademy 2015 t-shirt are now available to pre-order till the 5th of July

Pre-registration & Welcome event

As usual, we'll organize a Pre-registration / Welcome event so people who are already at Coruña on the 24th can get their badge, greet old friends and meet new ones. Read More

Pre-Registration Event

For all attendees that arrive on Friday, 12 July or earlier that week there is a chance to pick up their badges at the early registration get-together on Friday, 12 July at the Hika Ateneo bar from 18:00 to 22:00. This way, you'll be able to avoid the Saturday morning crowd. Read More

Pre-Registration Event

For all attendees that arrive on Friday, 5 September or earlier that week there is a chance to pick up their badges at the early registration get-together on Friday, 5 September at the Red Hat office from 17:00 to 21:00 with food and drinks provided. This way, you'll be also able to avoid the Saturday morning crowd. Read More

Pre-Registration Event

For all attendees that arrive on Friday, 10th of August or earlier that week there is a chance to pick up their badges at the early registration get-together on Friday, 10th of August at the Kontaktraum in the 6th floor of the venue from 18:00 to 22:00 with food and drinks provided. This way, you'll be also able to avoid the Saturday morning crowd. Read More

Program

Time Saturday Sunday Development Usability, Accessibility & Misc Development New Horizons 8:30-8:45 Opening by Dr. Dalibor Stys (Director, Institute of Physical Biology, University of South Bohemia), Prof. Proell (FH Hagenberg), and Matthias Kalle Dalheimer (President, KDE e.V.) 8:45-9:00 Practical Information (laptop rental, location, food, etc.); Dr. Rudi Ettrich, Acadamic and University Center, Nové Hrady 9:05-10:05 Harald Fernengel, Trolltech AS: KDevelop David Faure, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB: How to write a Makefile.am Tim Jansen: The Knot - A SLP-based Zeroconf solution; Paper 10:05-11:05 Marc Mutz, University of Bielefeld: Design Patterns (sig), TeX source (sig) Stephan Kulow, SuSE AG: The KDE Build System George Staikos, Zack Rusin: KaXUL & uXUL 11:10-11:40 Coffee Break Coffee Break 11:40-12:40 Tobias König, University of Technology Dresden: Programming with libkabc Gunnar Schmidt, University of Paderborn: KDE and Accessibility (sig) Carsten Pfeiffer, Fraunhofer Institute: Aspect Oriented Technologies: Ready for adoption? 12:40-14:00 Break Break 14:00-15:00 Holger Schroeder, Automatix GmbH: KDE-Cygwin Gunnar Schmidt: Accessibility and Interoperability (sig) Josef Weidendorfer, University of Technology Munich: Performance Analysis Havoc Pennington, RedHat, Inc.: D-BUS 15:05-16:05 DavidFaure, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB: The KTrader mechanism Josef Spillner, University of Technology Dresden: The dynamic desktop Andreas Brandt, University of Frankfurt: My research about KDE Matthias Kalle Dalheimer & David Faure, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB: OpenSource Memory Debugging 16:05-16:35 Coffee Break Coffee Break 16:35-17:35 Ian Geiser, sourceXtreme: Scripting Applications with DCOP Eva Brucherseifer, basysKom GbR: A KDE Usability Study David Faure, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB: How to write good network transparent code George Staikos, Staikos Computing Services Inc.: KWallet; Paper 17:40-18:40 Chris Schläger, SuSE AG: TaskJuggler Havoc Pennington, RedHat, Inc.: freedesktop.org Daniel Molkentin, University of Technology Chemnitz: Kontact the world!, Abstract 19:00-20:00 Social Event; includes: Matthias Ettrich, Tolltech AS: Qt: past - present - future (dot story) Matthias Ettrich, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer: The History of the KDE Project; Pictures (25MB) Read More

Program

Day Morning Afternoon Evening Thu 29th Akademy-ES Fri 30th Akademy-ES Welcome Event Sat 1st Talks Day 1 Sun 2nd Talks Day 2 Social Event Mon 3rd BoFs, Workshops & Meetings KDE eV AGM Barcelona Old City visit with guide Tue 4th BoFs, Workshops & Meetings Wed 5th BoFs, Workshops & Meetings Daytrip Thu 6th Trainings and BoFs, Workshops & Meetings Fri 7th SuperComputer Visit and BoFs, Workshops & Meetings

Program

Day Morning Afternoon Evening Fri 6th   Welcome Event Sat 7th Talks Day 1   Sun 8th Talks Day 2 Social Event Mon 9th BoFs, Training, Workshops & Meetings   Tue 10th BoFs, Training, Workshops & Meetings Wed 11th Daytrip Thu 12th BoFs, Workshops & Meetings   To interact with Akademy attendees online you must first register (if you haven't already) and then join Read More

Program Committee

The Akademy 2013 Program Committee consists of: Dario Freddi maintains several KDE components, and represents KDE as a speaker or promoter at events worldwide. Kevin Krammer has been a KDE contributor for over a decade and is primarily active in user support and developer mentoring. Lydia Pintscher is on the Board of Directors of KDE e.V. She is a member of KDE's Community Working Group and one of the admins of KDE's mentoring programs. Marta Rybczyńska can be usually found in embedded and kernel development. She helps create the KDE Commit Digest and coordinates KDE Polish translation efforts. Thiago Macieira started serious open source work with KDE back in 2001. He has been a full-time Qt developer for 7 years and is currently the Qt Core Maintainer in the Qt Project. If you have any questions about the Call for Presentations, you can email the Program Committee. For all other Akademy-related questions, please contact the Akademy organizing team. Read More

Program Overview

Day Morning Afternoon Evening Thu 11th Akademy-ES Fri 12th Akademy-ES KDE e.V. AGM Pre-registration & Welcome Sat 13th Akademy Main Talks Party Sun 14th Akademy Main Talks Mon 15th Akademy BoFs, Workshops & Meetings + QtCS Party Tue 16th Akademy BoFs, Workshops & Meetings + QtCS Wed 17th Akademy BoFs, Workshops & Meetings Akademy Daytrip Thu 18th Akademy BoFs, Workshops & Meetings Fri 19th Akademy BoFs, Workshops & Meetings