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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

Are you going to Akademy 2014

If you are joining us for Akademy 2014 let others know by using the badges on the wiki

Badges

Akademy banners are here! This year's official banners for people going to Akademy were created by Paul Brown and Jens Reuterberg. Feel free to use it in your blog posts, on your website, as a header image on your social media profiles, or wherever you want to promote Akademy and let people know you'll be attending! Read More

BBB User Guide

The platform being used during Akademy 2020 is BigBlueButton (BBB). This program is generally used for teachers and students but will be our virtual home for the next 8 days. Read More

Call for Papers

The Call for Papers is now closed. Akademy is the KDE Community conference. If you are working on topics relevant to KDE or Qt, this is your chance to present your work and ideas at the Conference from 13-19 July in Bilbao. The days for talks are Saturday and Sunday, 13 and 14 July. The rest of the week will be unconference sessions and workshops. Read More

Call for Papers

Akademy is the KDE Community conference. If you are working on topics relevant to KDE or Qt, this is your chance to present your work and ideas at the Conference from 25th-31st July in A Coruña, Spain. The days for talks are Saturday and Sunday, 25th and 26th July. The rest of the week will be BoFs, unconference sessions and workshops. Read More

Call for Papers

The 2017 CfP has now closed and is no longer accepting submissions Akademy is the KDE Community conference. If you are working on topics relevant to KDE or Qt, this is your chance to present your work and ideas at the Conference from 22nd-27th July in Almería, Spain. The days for talks are Saturday and Sunday, 22nd and 23rd July. The rest of the week will be BoFs, unconference sessions and workshops. Read More

Call for Participation

Akademy is the annual KDE Community conference. If you are working on topics relevant to KDE or Qt, this is your chance to present your work and ideas to the KDE community at large. It will take place in Vienna, Austria, from Saturday 11th to Friday 17th of August, 2018. The talks will be held on Saturday the 11th and Sunday the 12th. The rest of the week will be Birds-of-a-Feather meetings (BoFs), unconference sessions and workshops. Read More

Call for Participation

Akademy is the annual KDE Community conference. If you are working on topics relevant to KDE or Qt, this is your chance to present your work and ideas to the KDE community at large. It will take place in Milan, Italy, from Saturday 7th to Friday 13th of September, 2019. The talks will be held on Saturday the 7th and Sunday the 8th of September. The rest of the week will be Birds-of-a-Feather meetings (BoFs), unconference sessions and workshops. Read More

Call for Participation

Akademy is the annual KDE Community conference. If you are working on topics relevant to KDE, this is your chance to present your work and ideas to the KDE community at large. It will take place online from Friday the 18th to Friday the 25th of June, 2021. Training sessions will be held on Friday the 18th of June and the talks will be held on Saturday the 19th, Sunday the 20th, and half of Friday the 25th of June. The rest of the week (Monday - Friday) will be Birds-of-a-Feather meetings (BoFs), unconference sessions and workshops. Read More