| KDE enthusiasts to ponder next-gen Linux desktop |
Sep. 20, 2006
 More than 200 members of the KDE community, industry partners, and interested users will be gathering next week for aKademy 2006 at the Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland to work on the next-generation desktop, KDE 4, and desktop standards.
The aKademy conference will be held Saturday, Sept. 23, through Saturday, Sept. 30.
The KDE Contributors Conference will be held concurrently on Sept. 23 and Sept. 24. The conference will feature tracks on cross-desktop development, KDE 4 planning, programming, and community building, as well as an Asia track aimed at helping build bridges to Asian communities, the project said.
Speakers for the two days will include Aaron J. Seigo, Waldo Bastian, John Cherry, Keith Packard, David Faure, Adriaan de Groot, Jens Herden, and many other active contributors to KDE and other open source community projects. A full list of speakers can be found here.
Event highlights, according to the KDE team, will include:- Monday, Sept. 25, is the KDE e.V. General Assembly Day for members of KDE e.V. only. The KDE e.V. is a non-profit organization representing and supporting the KDE project in financial and legal matters.
- Tuesday, Sept. 26, is the OpenDocument Day. The event is open to all developers interested in working on the OpenDocument Format (ODF). Topics will include interoperability between ODF implementations, new uses for ODF, libraries and tools for ODF, and extensions for ODF.
- Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Day is on Wednesday, Sept. 27. This event is organized by the Human Computer Interaction Working Group, formed at last year's aKademy. HCI Day will focus on accessibility, usability, internationalization, the Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), artwork, and documentation to create a better and more usable KDE interface for all users.
- aKademy will also feature a coding marathon, to run daily from Tuesday, Sept. 26, through Saturday, Sept. 30. Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions will also be scheduled daily from Tuesday through Saturday. The preliminary Birds of a Feather sessions already scheduled include BoFs for Kubuntu, KDE PIM, Collaboration and Web Services, Marketing KDE, and Regional KDE Groups. BoF slots are still open, and may be scheduled through Cornelius Schumacher.
A schedule-at-a-glance can be viewed here.
aKademy 2006 is organized by a local team of volunteers headed by Marcus Furlong, the KDE e.V., and other members of the KDE community.
To register, go here.
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