Akademy
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 late summer or early autumn and is always held in Europe, Camp KDE, another contributors conference of the KDE community, is held in the Americas.
Format
The numbers below are the participation at the Akademy 2008.- Two-day KDE conference, 350 people.
- One-day KDE e.V. meeting, 100 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.
Conference history
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 |
| 2005 | Aaron Seigo, Brad Hards, David Faure and Matthias Ettrich | 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. | 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. | Matthias Kretz for Phonon. | Danny Allen for the KDE Commit-Digest. |
| 2008 | Sebastian Trueg, Matthias Kretz and Danny Allen | Mark Kretschmann for Amarok. | Nuno Pinheiro for Oxygen. | Aaron Seigo for Plasma. |
| 2009 | Mark Kretschmann, Nuno Pinheiro, Aaron Seigo | Peter Penz for Dolphin. | Celeste Lyn Paul for her usability work. | David Faure for greatest service to KDE. |
| 2010 | David Faure, Celeste Lyn Paul, Peter Penz | Aurélien Gâteau for Gwenview. | 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. | Dario Andres for bug triaging team. | Tom Albers for building up a sysadmin team. |
| 2012 | Martin Gräßlin, Dario Andres, Tom Albers | Camilla Boeman for Calligra Words. | Lydia Pintscher for Google Summer of Code and Season of KDE | Kévin Ottens for his work on KDE Frameworks 5 and Nicolás Alvarez for his work on the conversion of KDE projects to git |
| 2013 | Lydia Pintscher, Kévin Ottens, Nicolás Alvarez and Camilla Boeman | Eike Hein for his work on Konversation | Vishesh Handa for taking over the Nepomuk maintainer hat and rocking at stabilizing the beast | Timothée Giet for shaping the future and community of Krita Kenny Duffus for being the memory and soul of Akademy |
KDE One
KDE One is the first KDE community meeting with 15 participants, and budget is 14000 DEM. 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 through 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, organized by SuSE and Caldera. KDE e.V. meeting elect the new board consists of Kurt Granroth, Chris Schläger, Mirko Boehm, and Preston Brown.Kastle
The KDE Contributor Conference was held at the Zámek 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.Conferences
aKademy 2004
The KDE Community World Summit 2004 take place at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg. The conference is jointly organized by KDE e.V., Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart, and Linux New Media AG.aKademy 2005
The KDE Developers and Users Conference 2005 take place at the University of Málaga. 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, Dublin. 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 Strathclyde.Akademy 2008
The Akademy 2008 takes place at Campus De Nayer, Lessius Hogeschool.Akademy 2010
The Akademy 2010 was held in the main building of the University of Tampere from July 2–9, 2010.Akademy 2017
The Akademy 2017 was held in Universidad de Almería in Almería, Spain, from July 22–27, 2017.Stalls at the conference were held by LibreOffice, , and SUSE, among others.