AKademy
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Akademy is an annual contributors and users conference of the KDE
community. Akademy is held at varying venues in Europe.
While Akademy usually takes place in late summer or early autumn and is always held in Europe
, Camp KDE, another annual contributor's conference of the KDE community, is held on the American
continent.
(board member).
. KDE e.V. Meeting take place at 26 August. KDE User and Administrator Conference takes place at 27 to 28 August. KDE Developers and Contributors Conference takes place at 29 to 30 August. Coding Marathon for KDE Developers and Contributors takes place at 31 August to 4 September.
. The conference was focused on KDE SC 4, desktop standards and cross-project collaboration, and meeting the community.
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KDE
KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...
community. Akademy is held at varying venues in Europe.
While Akademy usually takes place in late summer or early autumn and is always held in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, Camp KDE, another annual contributor's conference of the KDE community, is held on the American
Americas
The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...
continent.
Format
The numbers below are the participation at the Akademy 2008.- Two-day KDE conference, 350 people.
- One-day KDE e.V.KDE e.V.KDE e.V. is a registered non-profit organization that represents the KDE community in the legal and financial entities. The association supports KDE’s work in cash, hardware, and other donations, and then the use of donations to help the KDE development, but not influence on development. “e.V.”...
meeting, 80 people. - Five-day hacking session, 350 people at the start, 250 people at the end.
- Social program like a reception, party and optionally a sight-seeing tour.
Venues
| Codenamed | Year | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| KDE One | 1997 | Arnsberg Arnsberg Arnsberg is a town in the Hochsauerland district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the location of the Regierungsbezirk Arnsberg's administration and one of the three local administration offices of the Hochsauerlandkreis.-Geography:... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
8/28-9/01 |
| KDE Two | 1999 | Erlangen Erlangen Erlangen is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located at the confluence of the river Regnitz and its large tributary, the Untere Schwabach.Erlangen has more than 100,000 inhabitants.... , Germany |
10/07-10/10 |
| KDE Three Beta | 2000 | Trysil Trysil Trysil is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Innbygda... , Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... |
7/09-7/19 |
| KDE Three | 2002 | Nürnberg, Germany | 2/25-3/04 |
| Kastle | 2003 | Nové Hrady Nové Hrady (Ceské Budejovice District) Nové Hrady is a small town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has circa 2,600 inhabitants.The old-time town Nové Hrady lies in the Nové Hrady Mountains close to the Czech-Austrian border... , Czech Republic Czech Republic The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest.... |
8/22-8/30 |
| aKademy 2004 | 2004 | Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg urban district with about 87,000 inhabitants... , Germany |
8/21-8/29 |
| aKademy 2005 | 2005 | Málaga Málaga Málaga is a city and a municipality in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 568,507 in 2010, it is the second most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth largest in Spain. This is the southernmost large city in Europe... , Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula... |
8/26-9/4 |
| aKademy 2006 | 2006 | Dublin, Ireland Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth... |
9/23-9/30 |
| aKademy 2007 | 2007 | Glasgow Glasgow Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands... , Scotland Scotland Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the... |
6/30-7/7 |
| Akademy 2008 | 2008 | Sint-Katelijne-Waver Sint-Katelijne-Waver Sint-Katelijne-Waver is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver and Sint-Katelijne-Waver proper. On January 1, 2006 Sint-Katelijne-Waver had a total population of 19,577... , Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many... |
8/9-8/15 |
| Akademy 2009 | 2009 | Gran Canaria Gran Canaria Gran Canaria is the second most populous island of the Canary Islands, with a population of 838,397 which constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago... , Spain |
7/3-7/11 |
| Akademy 2010 | 2010 | Tampere Tampere Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in... , Finland Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside... |
7/3-7/10 |
| Akademy 2011 | 2011 | Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union... , Germany |
8/6-8/12 |
Akademy Awards
The yearly Akademy conference gives Akademy Awards, are awards that the KDE community gives to KDE contributors. There are three awards, best application, best non-application and jury's award.| Year | Jury | Best Application | Best Non-Application | Jury's Award |
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| 2005 | Aaron Seigo Aaron Seigo Aaron Joseph Seigo is a Canadian open source software developer who lives in Zürich, Switzerland. He has been a KDE contributor since KDE 2 alphas release in 2000.... , Brad Hards, David Faure and Matthias Ettrich Matthias Ettrich Matthias Ettrich is a German computer scientist known for his contributions to the KDE and LyX projects.- School :... |
Albert Astals Cid and Enrico Ros for KPDF. | Lauri Watts for the KDE documentation. | Stephan Kulow and Oswald Buddenhagen for Subversion migration. |
| 2006 | Albert Astals Cid, Enrico Ros, Lauri Watts, Stephan Kulow and Oswald Buddenhagen | Boudewijn Rempt for Krita Krita Krita is the digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE Platform and Calligra Suite libraries. Designed as a digital painting and illustration suite, Krita is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License... . |
Alexander Neundorf for his work on CMake in KDE SC 4. | Laurent Montel for KDE4 Commit Champion. |
| 2007 | Boudewijn Rempt, Alexander Neundorf and Laurent Montel | Sebastian Trueg for K3b K3b K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application by KDE for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX... . |
Matthias Kretz for Phonon Phonon (KDE) Phonon is the multimedia API provided by Qt and is the standard abstraction for handling multimedia streams within the KDE Software Compilation 4.... . |
Danny Allen for the KDE Commit-Digest. |
| 2008 | Sebastian Trueg, Matthias Kretz and Danny Allen | Mark Kretschmann for Amarok. | Nuno Pinheiro for Oxygen Oxygen Project The Oxygen Project is a project created to give a visual refresh to KDE Plasma Workspaces.It consists of a set of computer icons, a window decoration for KWin, widget toolkit themes for GTK and Qt, and two themes for KDE Plasma Workspaces.... . |
Aaron Seigo for Plasma. |
| 2009 | Mark Kretschmann, Nuno Pinheiro Nuno Pinheiro (artist) Nuno Pinheiro is a Portuguese graphic designer and illustrator. He specializes in iconography, themes and user interface design. Nuno's works include general illustrations, UI design, Web design, corporate design as well as other work's in creative areas... , Aaron Seigo |
Peter Penz for Dolphin Dolphin (software) Dolphin is a free and open source software file manager for and part of the KDE Software Compilation. It is the default file manager in the current version, KDE Software Compilation 4, and can be optionally installed on K Desktop Environment 3... . |
Celeste Lyn Paul for her usability work. | David Faure for greatest service to KDE. |
| 2010 | David Faure, Celeste Lyn Paul Celeste Lyn Paul Celeste Lyn Paul is an expert in interface design and usability. She is a contributor to KDE.-School:Celeste awarded B.A. in Multimedia at Duquesne University in 2003, and awarded M.S. in Interaction Design & Information Architecture at University of Baltimore in 2007... , Peter Penz |
Aurélien Gâteau for Gwenview Gwenview Gwenview is an image viewer for the KDE Software Compilation desktop environment. The current maintainer is Aurélien Gâteau. The word "Gwen" means "white" in the Breton language and is commonly used as a first name.... . |
Anne Wilson for her community work. | Burkhard Lück for improving the state of KDE documentation. |
| 2011 | Aurélien Gâteau, Anne Wilson, Burkhard Lück | Martin Gräßlin for KWin KWin KWin is a window manager for the X Window System. It is an integral part of the KDE Software Compilation, although it can be used on its own or with other desktop environments.- History :- Look and feel :... . |
Dario Andres for bug triaging team. | Tom Albers for building up a team of contributors. |
KDE One
KDE One is the first KDE community meeting with 15 participants, and budget is 14000 DEM (7158 EUR). The results of discussions are: KParts for embedding applications into each other, definition of a filesystem standard, all applications should be internationalized, need a list of keybindings that are obligatory for all applications, and need more and better documentation. The social event is a walk though the historical town of Arnsberg. The sponsors helped with money donations consists of S.u.S.E. GmbH, Caldera Inc., LST Software GmbH, O'Reilly Verlag, JF Lehmanns Buchhandlung, Delix Computer GmbH, Dorint Hotel Arnsberg-Neheim, and Wirtschaftsförderung Arnsberg GmbH.KDE Two
KDE Two is the second KDE community meeting with 40 participants, orgainzed by SuSE and Caldera. KDE e.V. meeting elect the new board consists of Kurt Granroth (president), Chris Schläger (vice president), Mirko Sucker (treasurer), and Preston BrownPreston Brown
Preston Brown was an American army officer who saw action with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. Brown reached the rank of Major General, before retiring from active duty in 1936.-Early Life:Brown was born in Lexington, Kentucky...
(board member).
Kastle
The KDE Contributor Conference (code-named Kastle) was held at the Zámek (Castle) in Nové Hrady, Czech Republic. The conference program consists of KDE e.V. membership meeting, technical Talks, brewery tour, and hacking festival. The conference is run by KDE e.V., the Academic and University Center Nove Hrady and the Polytechnic University of Upper Austria in Hagenberg.aKademy 2004
The KDE Community World Summit 2004 (code-named aKademy) take place at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg. The conference is jointly organized by KDE e.V., Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart (WRS), and Linux New Media AG.aKademy 2005
The KDE Developers and Users Conference 2005 (code-named aKademy) take place at the University of MálagaUniversity of Málaga
The University of Málaga is a public university established in 1972. UMA's campus is situated in the city of Málaga, on the south coast of Spain...
. KDE e.V. Meeting take place at 26 August. KDE User and Administrator Conference takes place at 27 to 28 August. KDE Developers and Contributors Conference takes place at 29 to 30 August. Coding Marathon for KDE Developers and Contributors takes place at 31 August to 4 September.
aKademy 2006
The aKademy 2006 takes place in Trinity College, DublinTrinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin , formally known as the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother of a university", Extracts from Letters Patent of Elizabeth I, 1592: "...we...found and...
. The conference was focused on KDE SC 4, desktop standards and cross-project collaboration, and meeting the community.
aKademy 2007
The aKademy 2007 takes place at the Graham Hills Building, University of StrathclydeUniversity of Strathclyde
The University of Strathclyde , Glasgow, Scotland, is Glasgow's second university by age, founded in 1796, and receiving its Royal Charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university...
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Akademy 2010
The Akademy 2010 was held in the main building of the University of TampereUniversity of Tampere
The University of Tampere is a university in Tampere, Finland. It has 15,400 degree students and 2,100 employees. It was originally founded in 1925 in Helsinki as a Civic College , and from 1930 onwards it was known as a School of Social Sciences...
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| Day | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
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| 7/2 | Arriving, pre-registration, welcome drinks | ||
| 7/3 | conference | party | |
| 7/4 | conference | ||
| 7/5 | KDE e.V. General Assembly, Hands-on Qt for mobile | ||
| 7/6 | Workshops and BoFs | ||
| 7/7 | Workshops and BoFs | ||
| 7/8 | Workshops | Day trip | |
| 7/9 | Workshops and BoFs | ||