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 by Akademy Team
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
Akademy is the KDE Community conference. It is where we meet, discuss plans for the future, get inspired, learn and get work done. If you are working on topics relevant to KDE, this is your chance to present your work and ideas at the Conference from the 6th - 12th of September in Brno, Czech Republic. The days for talks are Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th of September. The rest of the week will be BoFs, unconference sessions and workshops.
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The goal of the conference section of Akademy is to learn and teach new skills and share our passion around what we're doing in KDE with each other.
For the sharing of ideas, experiences and state of things, we will have short Fast Track sessions in a singe track section of Akademy. Teaching and sharing technical details is done through longer sessions in the multi-track section of Akademy.
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Akademy 2014 will kick off on September 6 in Brno, Czech Republic; our keynote speakers will be opening the first two days. Continuing a tradition, the first keynote speaker is from outside the KDE community, while the second is somebody you all know. On Saturday, Sascha Meinrath will speak about the dangerous waters he sees our society sailing into, and what is being done to help us steer clear of the cliffs. Outgoing KDE e.V. Board President, Cornelius Schumacher, will open Sunday's sessions with a talk about what it is to be KDE and why it matters.
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Today KDE announced the location of Akademy 2014 to be Brno, Czech Republic from 6th - 12th September.
More information is available in the story on the dot: Akademy 2014 - Brno, Czech Republic
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The Akademy Program Committee is excited to announce the Akademy 2014 Program. It is worth the wait! We waded through many high quality proposals and found that it would take more than a week to include all the ones we like. However we managed to bring together a concise and (still packed) schedule. (Full details in the dot story)
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Mockup of Akademy t-shirt Following on from last year we have the option for buying an official Akademy 2014 t-shirt. Attendees can pre-order a t-shirt, pick it up at Akademy and pay a reduced price.
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The Akademy 2015 Call for Papers has now been published and registration is open:
dot.kde.org/2015/03/04/akademy-2015-call-papers-and-registration-open
Video recordings of the Akademy talks are now available in a low quality version to enable them to be released quickly. Higher quality version will be available later.
You can find these linked from the talks schedule or look through the video files directly
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Mockup of Akademy 2019 t-shirt by Jens Reuterberg Pre-ordering is no longer available. However there will be a small number of t-shirts available for anyone who has not pre-ordered.
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Mockup of Akademy 2020 t-shirt by Jens Reuterberg Following on from previous years we have the option for buying an official Akademy 2020 T-shirt. As Akademy is virtual this year we need to ship the T-shirts to you and this is why the price is a bit higher than in the past.
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