aKademy is the annual meeting of the KDE community. The venue (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) and the time (Sept 23-30) have been confirmed and solidified.
aKademy will be opened by the two-day KDE Contributors Conference, followed by the general assembly of the KDE e.V. and an intensive week of developing, discussing and meeting people. http://events.kde.org/info/conference2006/ The KDE organization has recently sent out their call for participation (CFP). Are you are working on innovative and exciting projects related to the "Free Desktop"? Is there anything you would like to say to the KDE community? Then this is for you! Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * KDE 4 architecture and vision * Desktop related hardware and software technologies * Innovative human-machine interface design * Cool programming tools, patterns and techniques * Applications written for the K Desktop Environment * Advancements in l10n and i18n * Quality Assurance in Open Source projects * Legal, social, philosophical or promotional matters related to KDE * Desktop software standards, usability and accessibility * Performance analysis and improvements Please submit a 300 word abstract of your presentation to [EMAIL PROTECTED] They accept documents in Open Document Format or plain ASCII text. Please send in your abstract before Friday June 30th at the latest, together with some background information about yourself and your presentation topic. Details on this call for participation are at: http://events.kde.org/info/conference2006/conference/call.php The aKademy 2006 event is listed on the OSDL DTL page in the "Upcoming Events / Attention" section along with other desktop related activities through September. The events listed here are key in establishing a unified desktop community. Cheers, John Cherry OSDL Desktop Linux _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list Desktop_architects@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects