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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. This channel collects all the talks and videos recorded over the years at Akademy. Check out the playlists to see videos from specific editions.

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  1. This or that KDE app?

    Kieryn and Kai play "This or that #KDE app?" at #Akademy2026

  2. Describe KDE in one word

    #Akademy2026 attendees convey ("konvey"?) in one word what #KDE means to them.

  3. Akademy 2026 - Tuesday BoF Wrap-up

    Birds of a Feather (BoF) Wrap-up of Thursday, 24 September

  4. Akademy 2026 - Tuesday, BoF Wrap-up

    Birds of a Feather (BOF) Wrap-up of Tuesday, 22 September

  5. Akademy 2026 - Monday BoF Wrap-up

    BoF Wrap-up of Monday, 21 September

  6. Modernizing KDE Print Manager for the Future of Linux Printing

    https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-47-modernizing_kde_print_manager_for_the_future_of_linux_printing The Linux printing ecosystem is currently undergoing one of its biggest architectural transitions in decades. Since the [CUPS 2.2.x][1] series, print...

  7. Still Breathing: The Past, Present, and Future of Oxygen

    https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-10-still_breathing_the_past_present_and_future_of_oxygen By examining its past, its present restoration, and its potential future, this presentation contextualizes Oxygen, the flagship theme of the KDE 4 era, within...

  8. Report of the board

    https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-41-report_of_the_board In this session the board will report on the activities of KDE e.V. over the past year. Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Carl Schwan, David Redondo, Eike Hein, Lydia Pintscher #kde2026 https://creativec...

  9. Matija Šuklje: Activities BoF

    https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-46-activities_bof Activities are a very powerful, yet heavily under-appreciated (and under-explained) feature of Plasma. In this lightning talk I would like to convince you why they are cool and to join us in the A...

  10. Lydia Pintscher: Sponsor's talks

    https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-59-sponsor_s_talks Lydia Pintscher #kde2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

  11. Richard Moe Gustavsen: StyleKit - A common QML API for styling Controls and Widgets

    https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-14-stylekit_a_common_qml_api_for_styling_controls_and_widgets StyleKit (formerly known under the working title "Unified Style") is a new QML module shipped with Qt 6.11 under the "Qt.labs.StyleKit" namespace. Style...

  12. What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE

    https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-32-what_would_it_take_a_lovable_sovereign_ai_native_kde Eva Brucherseifer, Jan Mühlig #kde2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

  13. Lydia Pintscher: Report of the Working Groups

    https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-42-report_of_the_working_groups In this session the working groups of KDE e.V. will present their work of the past year. Lydia Pintscher #kde2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

  14. Aleix Pol Gonzalez: Akademy Awards, & Closing Announcements

    https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-60-akademy_awards_closing_announcements Akademy Awards (10-20 mins) Closing Announcements - GET TO THE PARTY (5-10 mins) Aleix Pol Gonzalez #kde2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

  15. KDE Linux at 2: what we've learned and how it can help you

    https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-50-kde_linux_at_2_what_we_ve_learned_and_how_it_can_help_you KDE Linux is two years old. Building an operating system turns out to be hard! Along the way, we've learned a lot about what users love. We'd like to shar...

  16. Eike Hein: KDE goes to the Pyramids

    https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-58-kde_goes_to_the_pyramids Eike's adventure using KDE/Qt/HMI software in the field on an archeological mission for a robotic system! Eike Hein #kde2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

  17. KDE Goals - An Upward Spiral

    https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-25-kde_goals_an_upward_spiral Whenever a KDE Goals cycle comes to an end, it launches us into an upward spiral toward the next. In this panel, we’ll look back at the achievements of the 2024–2026 Goals cycle: KDE...

  18. Sandro Knauß: Packaging KDE on Debian

    https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-5-packaging_kde_on_debian What is Debian? What Debian gives the whole open source community, what is special about Debian? (Cross-compiling, Mulit-Arch, reproducible builds,..) You uses Debian? Cern, Debian in ...

  19. Méven Car: Dolphin, the beloved filemanager, past and future

    https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-15-dolphin_the_beloved_filemanager_past_and_future Present how dolphin is made accross its libraries usage and plugins, its wide usage, its community involvement, and future work ahead. Méven Car #kde2026 https:/...

  20. Harald Sitter: License all the files \o/

    https://media.ccc.de/v/kde2026-36-license_all_the_files_o Find out why it's important to license all your files from the get-go. Harald Sitter #kde2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

  21. Björn Balazs - Cutting Gordian's "End-User Focus" vs. "Privacy" Knot

    Our manifesto calls us to have an "end user focus". Among other things, we set up the Visual Design Group to take care of this. Unfortunately the effect of their work is limited by our knowledge about our users. We act ethically, respect privacy, ...

  22. Kai Uwe Broulik- Contributing Is More Than Just Code

    While actual source code is at the heart of what makes our software work, there is so much more you can do to help us create phenomenal software that helps millions be more productive. This is the story of how the donation of an external DVD driv...

  23. Adapt or Die How new Linux packaging approaches affect wider KDE

    About David: David is a long-standing #KDE contributor to Plasma, currently working with Blue Systems. Adapt or Die How new Linux packaging approaches affect wider KDE Everyone is familiar with #Flatpak, or #Snaps, as an another way to get softw...

  24. A Look on the Bright Side of Life - Harald Sitter

    A Look on the Bright Side of Life Let us explore ways to stay positive even when things are dragging us down. KDE is an open-source community developing free software for desktop and mobile, including the powerful Plasma desktop environment. Joi...

  25. An Operating System of Our Own - Harald Sitter

    Are we creating an OS? Is KDE even the right place? The rumor mills are churning. What is behind project "🍌 OS"? Is this finally the time to create a KDE OS? What does it take to make a good OS? We will look at existing endeavors, what we can lea...

  26. Akademy Awards 2024

    In this video we highlight and honor some of our most beloved and impactful contributors in the KDE Community. We are proud of their work. Enjoy! KDE is an open-source community developing free software for desktop and mobile, including the powe...

  27. Neofytos Kolokotronis - Building Culture: It Starts at Onboarding and Never Ends

    Over the 28 years KDE has been active, the community has developed its own particular vision, goals, values, norms of behavior and processes. Yet, as a living organism, it constantly needs to adapt to the ever evolving world around it, and to rem...

  28. The State of (the) Union - Arjen Hiemstra

    Last year during Akademy I presented the Union styling system, which is a project to create a styling engine that is intended to unify the various styling methods we use in KDE. Now, about a year later, I will talk about what kind of progress h...

  29. The Role of New Languages in the Future of the Qt Ecosystem - Cristián Maureira-Fredes

    User Interfaces (UI) are an essential part of our lives, we use them every day, in all our devices, everywhere we go. At the same time, we see new technologies and programming languages enriching our tech scenario, but in some cases, they don’t ha...

  30. Pursuing KDE Neon Core

    Last year we covered the "KDE Neon Core" effort to bring Plasma on Ubuntu Core. We focused on the work required and the challenges we encountered along the way. We concluded on an upcoming radical change in the system architecture. This time, w...

  31. Language Bindings: The Future of KDE?

    Over the last year many KDE libraries have gained bindings for Python and Rust, enabling developers using these languages to create KDE applications. In this talk we are going to look into why this is important, how the binding generation works...

  32. From Misunderstood to CEO – Breaking Bias and Building Inclusion

    Through real experiences and lessons learned, the talk highlights the challenges, small wins, and internal grit required to claim space in a male-dominated industry — and offers encouragement to anyone who's ever felt underestimated. This sessi...

  33. KEcoLab: KDE's Automation Tool For Energy Consumption Measurements

    KEcoLab is an automation tool that allows KDE developers to remotely measure the energy consumption of their KDE software through GitLab CI/CD. Instead of obtaining measurements manually and in person in a lab such as the one at KDAB, Berlin, KDE ...

  34. Developing on Flatpak

    Historically, we have developed our applications locally together with the system libraries and someone else has been taking care of the distribution of the application. With the introduction of Flatpak amongst other tools we have been breaking th...

  35. Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition is Real, Now What? - Neal Gompa

    Fedora KDE has had an exciting few years with a growing community and significant efforts between Fedora and the KDE project, with the latest milestone of Fedora KDE becoming a recognized flagship offering in the Fedora Project as the Fedora KDE P...

  36. Next-Gen Documentation Infrastructure for KDE - Nicolas Fella

    By the time Akademy happens api.kde.org will have completed the transition away from Doxygen to using QDoc for documentation generation. In this talk we are going to look at how and why this is happening and how we can leverage QDoc to make our...

  37. Exposing Data to QML - Ulf Hermann

    In QML, you generally use the model/view/delegate pattern to expose data. In the last few years, several features have been added to the QML language to help you do this in a type safe and predictable way. Required properties have been around sinc...

  38. CppCheck: Grooming Your Sources for KDE CI - Sune Stolborg Vuorela

    CppCheck is a static code analyzer that is easily integrated into KDE's CI workflow on invent. As with all static code analysis tools, code needs some initial grooming to be useful. We will here go over some of the things needed to get prope...

  39. Bridging the Gap: Artists and Wayland - Joshua Goins

    A big focus for KDE in Plasma 6 has been making our Wayland session usable for artists. It has been ready for general computing for some time, but these users have special requirements that require extra care - from drawing tablets to remotes to c...

  40. Design System - Progress and Goals - Andy Betts

    In this talk I will provide a list of all the updates and implementations made since the last design system announcement last year at Akademy. This includes a review on variables availability for designers and developers. I will detail the pref...

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