Schedule Akademy 2020

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Events

Keynotes

Title	Track	Speakers
Adventures in Open Source Development What does the everyday life of an independent Open Source Maintainer look...	Keynotes	Gina Häußge
No Burnout Burnout is one of the dangers all of us face; in fact the more enthusiasm and...	Keynotes	Valorie
Open Source Resilience and Growth: Creating Communities that Thrive Even without the added pressure of this pandemic, established open source...	Keynotes	Nuritzi Sanchez

Main Track

Title	Track	Speakers
Akademy Awards	Main Track
Akademy Welcome & Opening	Main Track
BoF Wrap-Up Wrap-Up	Main Track
Closing	Main Track
Consistency Status Last Akademy, Consistency was selected as one of the main three goals of KDE....	Main Track	niccolove
Editing Markdown with QTextDocument I added markdown support in Qt 5.14 as a first-class format as an alternative...	Main Track	Shawn Rutledge
FLA, FLA, FLA, FLA, FLA'ing Alive The FLA -- Fiduciary License Agreement -- is a tool that the KDE community...	Main Track	Adriaan de Groot
Flatpak, Flathub and KDE: A Quick Summary A quick summary of what is flatpak, what is flathub and how KDE interacts...	Main Track	Albert Astals Cid
How to Create a Good Promotional Website for your Project Having a good website for your project should be a fundamental part of your...	Main Track	Carl Schwan
How to Win an Argument with a Maintainer Over the years I have partaken in and witnessed hundreds of discussions on...	Main Track	David Edmundson
Improving KDE Server Infrastructure The KDE Sysadmin Team has started doing some work behind the scenes to reduce...	Main Track	Nicolás Alvarez
KDE All About the Apps How is KDE doing at creating a culture of promoting it's applications and...	Main Track	Jonathan Riddell
KDE Community Student Showcase Every year a number of students join us through our student programs Google...	Main Track	piyushaggarwal
KDE Community Student Showcase Every year a number of students join us through our student programs Google...	Main Track
KDE Community Student Showcase Every year a number of students join us through our student programs Google...	Main Track
KDE e.V. Board Report	Main Track	Aleix Pol Gonzalez
KDE e.V. Working Group Reports	Main Track	Aleix Pol Gonzalez
KDE Goals We will talk with the goals keepers about how the first year of their goals...	Main Track	niccolove Méven Jonathan Riddell Lydia Pintscher adamszopa
SPDX for Better License Statements SPDX identifiers are an important step in enable automatic tooling for...	Main Track	Andreas Cord-Landwehr
Sponsors' Talks	Main Track
Super Secret Plasma Features Did you know you could mouse wheel the volume icon in your panel to change...	Main Track	Kai Uwe Broulik
Virtual Sprints After COVID-19, it is becoming increasingly hard to do a in-person sprint....	Main Track	Bhushan Shah
Wayland Goal Status Update Wayland is the replacement for our venerable X window system. The community...	Main Track	Méven

Technical

Title	Track	Speakers
API Design and QML A presentation over QML API design sharing best practices to follow and...	Technical	cblack
C++17 and 20 Goodies C++ is evolving rapidly in the past few years and it is hard to keep track of...	Technical	ivan
Creating a Convergent Application Following the KDE Human Interface Guidelines How to create an application for mobile that can also run on a desktop...	Technical	Dimitris Kardarakos
Getting into KWin and Wayland This year I have ended up working on improving our Wayland experience on...	Technical	Aleix Pol Gonzalez
Input Handling Update We have several goals for input events in Qt 6; the main one of course is to...	Technical	Shawn Rutledge
KIO: A Story of Young and Old Jobs Learn more about the KJob design, the KIO jobs like KIO::copy, the 3 new jobs...	Technical	David Faure
Linux Graphics 101 The ever growing popularity of ARM devices has meant a new market for KDE...	Technical	Rohan Garg
Native Desktop Styling Support for QtQuick Controls 2 At The Qt Company we have an ongoing project in the UI team to improve the...	Technical	Richard Moe Gustavsen
Next Generation Application Management In this talk we will present a new cross-desktop specification to provide...	Technical	David Edmundson Henri Chain
QML Rapid Prototyping QML prototyping is something that all developers do, this talk will...	Technical	Patrick Pereira
Rust from a KDE Perspective Since C++ was released in the 80s rare are the other programming languages to...	Technical	Méven
Static Code Analysis with Gitlab CI The migration to GitLab earlier this year has opened up a lot of new...	Technical	Daniel Vrátil
System Settings: Behind the Scene System settings are a core part of Plasma highly customizable eco system....	Technical	Benjamin Port
Test It! In this talk, I want to discuss why automated tests are important for your...	Technical	Andreas Cord-Landwehr
Using Wikidata and OpenStreetMap Wikidata and OpenStreetMap (OSM) are probably the largest Open Data pools in...	Technical	Volker Krause

Non-Technical/Innovation

Title	Track	Speakers
A Year in KDE from Outside Most of KDE people know KDE news from KDE people. But what are the people...	Non-Technical/Innovation	Marta Rybczynska
Change Management The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress ~...	Non-Technical/Innovation	Aniqa Khokhar
Free Software, Press Freedom & KDE Story of Janayugom, the first newspaper in the world to use 100% free...	Non-Technical/Innovation	ambadyanands
Lost Knowledge in KDE The KDE community will soon turn 24, thousands of people have participated in...	Non-Technical/Innovation	Kevin Ottens
Visions of the Future Do you want to see KDE Plasma shipped by default on every PC, phone, and...	Non-Technical/Innovation	Nate Graham

KDE Products

Title	Track	Speakers
Celebrating 20 Years of GCompris This year is the 20th birthday of GCompris, so we have decided to celebrate...	KDE Products	Timothée Giet
Integrating Hollywood Open Source with KDE Applications My GSoC 2020 project, entitled “Dynamic Fill Layers in Krita using SeExpr”,...	KDE Products	amyspark
Kdenlive: A Journey of Being a Leading Open Source Video Editor Media production is today more important than ever. As everybody can produce...	KDE Products	massimostella
KDE's Products In KDE we create a myriad of things for different kind of people. We create...	KDE Products	Aleix Pol Gonzalez
Maui Project Update Maui Project has been a KDE project since 2018 and recently we made our first...	KDE Products	Camilo Higuita
Showcasing Plasma Bigscreen Television sets have evolved from dumb boxes to interactive interfaces and...	KDE Products	Aditya Mehra Marco Martin

Health

	Title	Track	Speakers
	Clear.Dental This presentation will go over my passion project: Clear.Dental. The...	Health	TejShahDMD
	MyGNUHealth: GNU Health Goes Mobile with KDE & Kirigami GNU Health (GH) the Libre Health and Hospital Information System. GH is a...	Health	Luis Falcon

Training

Title	Track	Speakers
Debugging & Profiling on Linux This training is kindly provided by KDAB and Mbition. It contains...	Training
Implicit Bias During the Project Implicit Education Session, participants will be asked to...	Training
Introduction to QML This training is kindly provided by KDAB. It contains high-quality content...	Training	Albert Astals Cid
Multithreading in Qt This training is kindly provided by KDAB. It contains high-quality content...	Training	David Faure
Speed Up Your Development Workflows with GitLab - Best Practice Workshop Take the first steps in GitLab with project management (issues, boards,...	Training
UI/UX Design in QML for Desktop This training is kindly provided by KDAB. It contains high-quality content...	Training

Distros

	Title	Track	Speakers
	Introducing Fedora KDE This presentation introduces the Fedora KDE spin and the Fedora KDE SIG. In...	Distros	Neal Gompa
	Konquering the Droids In order to stay relevant KDE needs to expand from its traditional desktop...	Distros	Nicolas Fella

3rd Parties Using KDE

	Title	Track	Speakers
	KDE Wags Your Tail Find out how The Tail Company worked with KDE technologies to make their...	3rd Parties Using KDE	leinir andrewshoben
	Linux in Cars - So What? In this talk, Johan will talk about why cars - albeit with Linux - still are...	3rd Parties Using KDE	johanthelin

Compliance/Licensing

	Title	Track	Speakers
	Open Source Compliance The proposed talk (or panel) will focus on Open Source compliance issues	Compliance/Licensing	catharina
	The KDE Free Qt Foundation The KDE Free Qt Foundation was established in 1998 to keep the Qt toolkit...	Compliance/Licensing	Cornelius Schumacher