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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 2022
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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 2024 is a hybrid event, in Würzburg, Germany & online from Saturday 7th - Thursday 12th September

Travelling to Milan

Effective from the 15th July 2019, a new Integrated Fare System (STIBM) will come into force replacing the previous Integrated Fare System of the Milanese Area (SITAM). We invite you to look at New Integrated Fare System page. Read More

Travelling to Vienna

You can travel to vienna by airplane, by train, by bus, or by car. By Airplane To Vienna International Airport (Flughafen Wien Schwechat, VIE) Vienna International Airport has frequent connections to Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, Zurich, London and many other cities within Europe and abroad. See Arriving at Vienna for detailed information about the airport facilities. Read More

Updates

To keep up to date on what is happening with Akademy we recommend subscribing to the Akademy Attendees list If you have any questions or just want to chat about the event the IRC channel is #akademy on freenode which is also bridged to Matrix and Telegram. You are welcome to sit in the channel or just pop in and ask questions. You may not always get a quick answer as the channel is not monitored constantly so please stick around for an answer. Read More

Venue

Bizkaia Aretoa Akademy 2013 will take place in two different venues. The weekend conference (13-14 July) of talks and presentations will take place at the Bizkaia Aretoa building which is part of the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU . The building is located on the Ría de Bilbao river, close to the famous Guggenheim Museum. Read More

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Akademy 2014 takes place at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology in Brno, Czech Republic Read More

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Akademy 2015 takes place at the Faculty of Computer Science. Universidad de A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain Read More

Venue

Map OpenStreetMap link Auditorio (red square between Aulario I and Aulario II) We will have the rooms of track 1 here. Read More

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The Venue for Akademy 2018 will be at the Neues EI Building at Campus Gußhaus of TU Wien. Map Read More

Venue

The event will be held in building U4 at the weekend and through out U1-U4 during the week, Piazza della Scienza (45.513661,9.2091579,17), Milan: [Google Maps] or [OpenStreetMap] Close public transport stations include Read More

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The event will be held in Vertex building (41.3905, 2.1143) at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC): Vertex building - OpenStreetMap or Google Maps Plaça Eusebi Güell, 6 Read More