Hear dinosaurs ramble! The panelists will tell the story of how they joined up and got sucked into the amazing community that is KDE. Afterwards we'll discuss what the best way to join is and what to avoid.
Ever wondered what happens to all the bug reports that get submitted? Wanted to help out with bug triage but didn't know how to get started? Want to know how bug reports help developers take action? Come find out!
... Or How the Sovereign Tech Fund Invested in KDE
In 2026, the Sovereign Tech Fund commissioned work to bring KDE software closer to readiness for large enterprises and public institutions. Members of KDE e.V., enioka Haute Couture, and Techpaladin Software joined forces to prepare the proposal which led to this investment.
Join us to get a peek behind the curtain of such an endeavor....
With its 30 years of publicly available commit history, KDE is an exceptional project. More than 5,000 people have contributed more than 8 million lines of code in almost 900,000 commits in the core modules alone. This presentation will show some graphical insights into KDE's code base and its history. We will touch the shape of its modules, its release history, peek into the work of some...
This talk shows you what sorts of problems you might encounter while attempting to contribute to KDE and how to address them: whether they are a normal part of the onboarding experience, unexpected issues, or indicative of flaws in our onboarding that need fixing.
"United we stand, divided we fall." "There is strength in numbers." "Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable." There exist several cliches about the importance of working together, and no one knows the value of collaboration more than FOSS contributors. But perhaps sometimes overlooked is the importance of cross-community collaboration. In this talk I will take a deeper look at the collaborations...
In this talk we will discuss some best practices that you should apply when creating software to ensure that you can sustain high quality development. This includes things such as the spanish inquisition, static analysis, and licensing.
The desktop interface has remained fundamentally unchanged for over two decades, relying on legacy paradigms that haven't scaled to meet new modern needs.
Industry leaders like Apple and Microsoft are too deeply entrenched in their established ecosystems to risk radical shifts. While the Linux community has shown some appetite for experimentation, much of it has nibbled at the edges such...
The Qt framework is one of the foundational building blocks on which most of KDE's applications are build upon.
Conveniently, the expected final release of Qt 6.12 overlaps with Akademy. So let's take a tour through what Qt 6.12 brings to the table, and also check what will come next.
The talk will look at shiny technical additions (liek hardware accelerated imperative painting and...
What happened in Plasma since last Akademy? Many of us here alwayas use the latest and greatest from the master branch, so we see changes gradually. Seeing the main things that changed since last year puts in perspective how much work we do as a community to make the user experience better and better. We'll see also what it expects us for the year to come, for future planned featuresand...
KDE has a lot of code. All that code we want to ensure keeps working. We have lots of different bits and pieces in place to ensure that our code keeps working.
In this talk we are going to look at various aspects of how technical quality assurance is done in KDE. This includes CI, unit/integration tests, sanitizers, static analysis.
We are going to see what we use, what the strengths and...
During this talk, I would like to present progress for Ocean Design at Plasma. We have a list of advances to show:
- Overall Ocean window style using Union
- Release of new Ocean Design library
- Presentation of finalized app icons for Ocean Icons
- Presentation of Ocean Design system documentation
I'll talk about everything related to Vulkan in KWin: What it even is, what it's replacing, why we need it, what's already implemented and what I'm hoping to achieve with it in the future.
If you change a blueprint or add a new one then you should test it before you push it to the master branch to avoid breaking the Craft builds for you and others.
In this talk I will briefly demonstrate how to do this on KDE's CI/CD system.
In this presentation I would like to discuss the work we have done over the last few years towards getting closer to our users and how it culminated in my work embracing BuildStream as a solution for our builds.
We will cover why it is a good idea, why it's an area that is important to put a lot of care on and how we will do to make sure that it remains a good idea and, most importantly,...
With improving Continuous Delivery (CD) infrastructure it has become easier than ever to use bleeding edge builds of our applications. This is reducing the threshold for users to become contributors.
KDE software is tremendously useful for teaching. It greatly helps from teaching elementary school pupils to university level students. I believe that acceptance for using free and open source software in teaching environments has recently risen given increased attention on digital sovereignty.
Given these circumstances, I was allowed to participate in two projects bringing KDE to local...
In 2006, I prepared my first Kdenlive release. Twenty years and 151 releases later, where are we ?
Is Kdenlive still relevant ? Will it finally get GPU support ? How is the community doing ? And more importantly, are we still having fun ?
I will try to answer these questions, and give you a better overview of our plans.
This talk will provide a brief overview of what has been going on in KEcoLab over the past year, which includes full OS migration, tooling improvements, and contributions from SoK26 student Hrishikesh Gohain. Two issues we will discuss in some detail are: (i) porting usage scenario scripts from xdotool to ydotool+kdotool; and (ii) setting up a lab machine dedicated to measuring KDE Plasma...
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 Needs You
- We Care About Your Input
- Streamlined Application Development Experience
And finally, announcing new goals & champions
In September 2025, a few of us Open Source nerds heard that the Bavarian government wanted to "sneakily" "invest" another billion Euro in Microsoft Cloud, Teams and 365 – without a tender, and before the year ends (Base contract)
I talked to friends, and we created an open letter. Soon we were like ten initiators. We found support among many Bavarian Open Source companies and NGOs, only...
In 2026, the Sovereign Tech Fund commissioned work to bring KDE software closer to readiness for large enterprises and public institutions. As part of this work, KDE PIM infrastructure had to be improved.
In this talk, we will cover the bug fixing and improvements we did around Akonadi resources and their protocol libraries. This will help all the applications using Akonadi to be at the...
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 share it with other OS builders as we've learned from them, and lay out what's next.
A talk in three parts, building towards a vision for a sovereign desktop in 2026 (and a look back).
- Loved. In 2003, together with Eva Brucherseifer, Jan's company relevantive ran the first large-scale usability study of the Linux desktop on behalf of decision-makers considering migration. KDE 3.1 on SuSE was tested by 60 office workers with no prior Linux experience; 87% enjoyed...
This paper argues that KDE's most significant and durable contribution to the technology landscape is not its desktop environment, its application suite, or its adherence to open standards - though these are substantial. Its most radical technology is its governance model: a self-organizing, volunteer-driven community structure that has resisted capture, sustained creative output across three...
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.
StyleKit is a declarative styling system for Qt Quick Controls and Widgets, built on top of Qt Quick Templates. It lets you define a complete visual style for all your controls from a single Style document, including support for themes,...
In this session the board will report on the activities of KDE e.V. over the past year.
By examining its past, its present restoration, and its potential future, this presentation contextualizes Oxygen, the flagship theme of the KDE 4 era, within the broader questions it raises for KDE as a project.
We argue two things about Oxygen: that it carries genuine historical and artistic value, and that KDE's continued stewardship of the theme reflects something important and...
The Linux printing ecosystem is currently undergoing one of its biggest architectural transitions in decades. Since the [CUPS 2.2.x][1] series, printing has increasingly moved toward [IPP-native and driverless][2] workflows, allowing applications to print directly to discovered IPP print destinations without requiring manually created print queues, PPD files, or vendor-specific driver...
In this session the working groups of KDE e.V. will present their work of the past year.
Trees need regular maintenance to stay healthy and productive.
In this talk we are looking at how to take care of a tree, and what it can teach us about software and community.
Find out why it's important to license all your files from the get-go.
Present how dolphin is made accross its libraries usage and plugins, its wide usage, its community involvement, and future work ahead.
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 Activities BoF to discuss how both Activities themselves and KDE’s messaging/documentation/onboarding about them could be improved.
The quick talk will do an overview on the implementation of a new mouse and touchscreen feedback kwin effect that involves a very basic fluid simulation shader that produces pretty and realistic looking water ripples around the mouse cursor or the touch points
Eike's adventure using KDE/Qt/HMI software in the field on an archeological mission for a robotic system!
Akademy Awards (10-20 mins)
Closing Announcements - GET TO THE PARTY (5-10 mins)
