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Akademy Awards 2016

Sunday, 4 September 2016 | Jriddell

Winners Kenny, Dan, Christoph, Dominik, Aleix

QtCon talks closed with our annual awards ceremony, the Akademy Awards. Given each year to the most valued and hardest working KDE contributors, they are awarded by the jury from the previous year. This year's winners are:

Interviews with QtCon Stall Holders

Sunday, 4 September 2016 | Jriddell

KDE Dot News sent its roving reporter Devaja round the stalls at QtCon to ask them what they were promoting and of their experience of the conference.

Think-Cell

openSUSE

QtCon Closing Keynote with Julia Reda MEP

Sunday, 4 September 2016 | Jriddell

Julia Reda MEP

The talks are over after the three days of QtCon Akademy 2016 which means the BoF sessions and hacking days are about to begin. To close the talks at the conference we had a finishing keynote by Julia Reda, Member of the European Parliament and member of the Pirate Party.

KDE Software Store

Saturday, 3 September 2016 | Jriddell

KDE Store

At this year's Akademy, KDE announced The KDE Store. The new store replaces the services provided by openDesktop.org with a Free-as-in-Freedom software sharing platform.

QtCon Day 2: Extended Track Coverage

Saturday, 3 September 2016 | Devaja

There is so much about QtCon and all its diversity and enthusiasm right from the Traffic Cone hats to the Ratatouille to the parallel KDE, FSFE, Qt tracks that all of it can't be summed up even across numerous dot stories. So this article in particular aims at giving a detailed summary of some of the talks not covered in the previous dot story and a more detailed version of the lightning talks for those who prefer a quick read over watching videos. Read More

Talks and Hacking Continue at QtCon

Saturday, 3 September 2016 | Jriddell

A second packed day of talks has taken place at QtCon, the largest and most diverse and dynamic gathering of end-user software communities for open development ever. KDE contributors gave talks next to pure Qt coders, the VLC team pondered the merits of porting to Telsa cars and the FSF-E celebrated 15 years with their annual awards. Read More

QtCon FInished First Day of 13 Tracks of Talks

Friday, 2 September 2016 | Jriddell

Today is a historic day for KDE, a community founded 20 years ago. We are celebrating with like-minded communities doing what we do best; discussing and promoting technical achievements with our friendly communities of FSF-E, Qt and VLC. A massive thirteen tracks of talks run concurrently here at the Berlin Conference Centre covering topics from community to debugging to the switch to Qt 6. Dot News can't begin to cover all of them, and many are available on the CCC streaming coverage which already has many talks from today. Here we've picked a few to give some highlights. Read More

QtCon Opens in Berlin with Keynote by Raul Krauthausen

Friday, 2 September 2016 | Jriddell

Conference Opening

QtCon has opened in Berlin at the fabulous Berlin Conference Centre. It started with a welcome by president of the KDAB group and one of the original KDE developers Matthias Kalle Dalheimer. He welcomed the different but related communities together and encouraged developers to talk to each other. This is a unique opportunity for volunteer and employed, open source and proprietary, student and old-timers to come together and exchange thoughts, needs and have some fun. He also welcomed representatives from all the communities on stage.

KDE Arrives in Berlin, Elects Thomas Pfeiffer to the e.V. Board

Thursday, 1 September 2016 | Jriddell

KDE meets, chats and hacks

Today KDE has been arriving in Berlin for Akademy, our annual meeting, which is year is part of the larger QtCon conference. This year we are teaming up with KDAB to gather together with the wider community of Qt developers for the first time, which is a major opportunity to share experiences between the open source and the commercial worlds. Also at the gathering are the VLC developers. VLC is one of the most successful open source projects successfully reaching out to users on all platforms and is a project we have long cooperated with. And the Free Software Foundation Europe will be brining the important political edge to our talks.

20 Quotes for 20 Years, What are you looking forward to at this QtCon Akademy?

At this Akademy we celebrate 20 years of KDE, so ahead of QtCon 2016, we went around asking 20 people what they are looking forward to the most this Akademy.

Remembering Vernon Adams

Tuesday, 30 August 2016 | Jriddell

Vernon

LWN reports on the sad death of Vernon Adams, designer of the Oxygen font and author of the invaluable how to use Font Forge guide.