Akademy 2024 - Saturday 7th September - Room 2 The KDE Community 2024-09-07 | 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.
Akademy 2024 - Sunday 8th September - Room 1 The KDE Community 2024-09-08 | 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.
Akademy 2024 - Sunday 8th September - Room 2 The KDE Community 2024-09-08 | 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.
Akademy 2024 - Saturday 7th September - Room 1 The KDE Community 2024-09-07 | 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.
Akademy 2023: Internal Communication At KDE: Infrastructure For A Large And Diverse Community The KDE Community 2024-04-25 | Find the presentation here: conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/132/attachments/92/108/2023-07-16_akademy_internal-communications-presentation.pdfAs reflected in the 'About' tab in KDE apps, i.e., "a world-wide community of software engineers, artists, writers, translators and creators ...", we are a large and diverse community.How does such a large and diverse group of people communicate? What infrastructure currently exists to support that communication? And where are there opportunities for improvement?In this talk I will (attempt to) map out the communication infrastructure at KDE. I will explore various roles (e.g., software engineer, artist, writer, etc.) at various stages (new vs. seasoned contributor) in terms of how a KDE contributor navigates that infrastructure.The goal of the talk is to spark a discussion about what works and where we can improve when it comes to internal communication -- and, most importantly, how that influences community cohesion.BiographyJoseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss (he/him) is Internal Communications at KDE & KDE Eco Community Manager. His energy is spent strengthening sustainability at KDE, both in the ecological and the organizational sense of the word.Social Linkshttps://floss.social/@be4foss
Akademy 2023 - The Evolution of KDEs App Ecosystem and Deployment Strategy The KDE Community 2024-04-25 | Find the presentation here:conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/140/attachments/73/89/The%20Evolution%20of%20KDE's%20App%20Ecosystem%20and%20Deployment%20Strategy%20-%20Akademy%202023.pdfHistorically, KDE has not been involved with how our software is deployed. Nevertheless, this model has shown its limits and it's time we make sure we are still ahead of the wave as we are aiming to support different software stores as well as hardware shipping our software.This presentation will explore how our ecosystem has changed and its implications by taking a look at how linux distributions have evolved and discuss where KDE fits in there, concluding in some ideas on how KDE can adapt its deployment strategy to ensure that it remains relevant and accessible to users.
Akademy 2023: Tale of Kleopatra: From Insufficient Accessibility to Minor Accessiblity Limitations The KDE Community 2024-04-25 | By Ingo Klöcker (KDE)Find the presentation here:conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/141/attachments/74/90/talk.pdfDESCRIPTIONSIn the beginning of 2022 an assessment of the accessiblity of Kleopatra was performed. Unsurprisingly, Kleopatra didn't score too well. In fact, the accessiblity for blind persons and for motor impaired persons was rated insufficient. Over the course of last year, I have fixed or at least improved many of the findings mentioned in the report. In the follow-up test, that was performed in the beginning of 2023, Kleopatra was rated accessible with minor limitations for visual impaired persons and motor impaired persons.In this talk I will give a short overview over the problems and how I addressed them with the help of Qt or despite of Qt.BIOGRAPHYIngo started working as App Stores Support Engineer for KDE e.V. in September 2022, but has been a part of KDE since 2000. As freelancing software engineer he improves Kleopatra since mid 2020, and in the 00's he has maintained KMail.
Akademy 2023: Flatpak and KDE The KDE Community 2024-04-25 | By Alber AstalsFind the presentation here: conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/136/attachments/80/96/flatpak_and_kde.pdfDESCRIPTION:In this session we will explain what Flatpak is, why it's interesting to KDE and talk about the various endeavors where KDE interacts with Flatpak, flathub, CI, binary factory, etc.BIOGRAPHYAlbert has been involved in KDE for almost 20 years doing programming, translating, general coordination, etc.
Akademy 2023: Documentation goals and techniques for KDE and open source The KDE Community 2024-04-25 | By Thiago SuetoFind the presentation here: conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/142/attachments/77/93/Akademy2023Docs.pdfDESCRIPTIONMany resources exist detailing the ins and outs of technical documentation, yet most are concerned with practices done in enterprise environments, leaving open source—and its anarchic/do-ocratic collaboration style—in the background.This talk explains the different ways in which KDE handles documentation and summarizes the relevant content found in multiple technical documentation books to serve as a general metrics for what KDE should be striving for in its documentation.BIOGRAPHYI have worked as a translator of academic papers in the past and I am currently a documentation contractor for KDE focusing on onboarding documentation.I'm a jack-of-all-trades who ventured through most areas of KDE over the course of four years and is acquainted with the good and the bad in their onboarding process, making this my specialty.
Akademy 2023: KDE embedded - Where are we? The KDE Community 2024-04-25 | By Andreas Cord-LandwehrFind the presentation here: conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/131/attachments/70/86/talk_embedded_final.pdfDESCRIPTIONDo you know this nervous feeling when powering on an embedded device for the first time? Not sure whether you will see smoke, an awesome Plasma desktop, or just a blinking bar on a serial shell followed by nothing? -- Embedded devices are fascinating! And in this talk I want to show what we have in the KDE community to get you favorite KDE software on them.In this talk I want to cover:- the tooling we have in KDE (our Yocto layers) to easily create embedded devices and how that works- which devices are most interesting at the moment, in my very subjective view, and which we use for our KDE demos (yeah, say "RISC-V"!)- the concept of an immutable image, which is created by a build system (like Yocto), put onto a device and updated by fail-safe steps, but also the topic of containerized apps and why we need to look into them for embedded devices- my ideas about next topics and directions that we should pursue in our embedded area and how easy it is to join this quest :)BIOGRAPHYAndreas is with KDE for more than a decade. Initially, he was involved with the KDE-Edu project, but nowadays he is mostly interested in topics around embedded systems, Wayland, and tooling for system analysis. After he did his PhD in 2016 in the field of algorithmic game theory, he started his professional career as an embedded systems engineer for agriculture machinery. Today, he is a terminal architect for CLAAS E-Systems.
Akademy 2023: Make it talk: Adding speech to your application. The KDE Community 2024-04-25 | By Jeremy Whiting Find the slides here: conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/149/attachments/84/100/MakeItTalklightningtalk.pdfDESCRIPTIONSGames and Applications provide a few different methods of feedback tousers. Flashy graphics and sounds are primary, but there's anothermethod that can be added quickly and easily. Speech can add anotherlayer of feedback to your users. In simple cases, a i18n("Well done!")spoken on speakers can be magical depending on your target audience.QtSpeech makes this easy but is also flexible enough to let users customizevoice settings if you expose those to them.In this talk, I'll explain quickly how to add speech to any application.I'll also go over some caveats and things to watch out for or know aboutwhen adding speech to your application. I'll also discuss some customization capabilities you can add to allow your users to tweak how the speech sounds. Some history of text-to-speech technologies in general and on Linux in particular will also be included.At the end of the talk, attendees should have a clear understanding of howto add speech using QtSpeech to any application and how to expose customization options to their users. BIOGRAPHYJeremy got roped into doing KDE development by Anne-Marie in late 2007. Did a bit with Kanagram, KHangMan, KNewStuff, over the years. Created Jovie from kspeech then killed Jovie when QtSpeech came around. Have dabbled in various projects here and there over the years.Jeremy has worked for Collabora since 2010.
Akademy 2023: The Community Working Group - Keeping a Healthy Community The KDE Community 2024-04-25 | By Andy Betts, David Edmundson, Neofytos KolokotronisFind the slides here: conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/126/attachments/90/106/cwgakademylightningtalk.pdfDESCRIPTION- Origins of the CWG- Members in the CWG- Main objectives- Process of review and decision- Best practices to get alongWe would like to present on the workings of the Community Working Group and the ways that the team can work with us and how we can get along in our community.BIOGRAPHYAndy is a long-time contributor working primarily with the Visual Design Group.
Akademy 2023: Spooky Action at a Distance: Remote Desktop for KWin Wayland The KDE Community 2024-04-25 | By Arjen HiemstraFind the slides here: conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/133/attachments/94/111/arjen-hiemstra-akademy2023.pdfDESCRIPTIONWhile the X11 Display Server had network transparency as a core feature, Wayland compositors are not required to implement things the same way. In fact, the Wayland protocol itself has not been designed as a protocol for network use. Yet remotely controlling a desktop remains an important use case for a number of users.For KWin, we have been working on several features over the past years that together allow us to implement remote desktop support within KWin Wayland. Together with a new library called KRdp that implements the RDP protocol we now have a solution that allows controlling any KWin Wayland session over a network connection. Moreover, this includes some features we were not able to offer before.In this talk I will go over some of the history of remote desktop support in KDE. I will also talk about some of the features within KWin that we make use of to get all this working. Finally I will talk about implementing the RDP protocol layer and the other parts needed to get all this together.
Akademy 2023: Testing latest KDE software, from Plasma desktop to Apps The KDE Community 2024-04-25 | By Timothée RavierFind the slides here: conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/138/attachments/93/110/Akademy%202023%20-%20Testing%20latest%20KDE%20software,%20from%20Plasma%20desktop%20to%20Apps.pdfDESCRIPTIONOne way to find bugs is to have users test changes as early as possible after they are commited, or even better, before they are committed, during the merge request process.With Flatpak builds in Invent GitLab CI and Fedora Kinoite Nightly, we are making that possible respectively for KDE Apps and KDE Plasma.KDE Apps are now distributed as Flatpaks via Flathub and we are setting up GitLab CI in KDE Invent to build Flatpaks for each merge request. This lets users test fixes for KDE Apps directly by downloading the Flatpak bundle produced as part of the merge request. Feedback on bug fixes can thus happen before the merge request is merged.Fedora Kinoite is an immutable or image based version of Fedora that is built with rpm-ostree and includes the KDE Plasma desktop and KDE Apps. Kinoite Nightly is a variant of Fedora Kinoite based on the latest stable release of Fedora but includes nightly builds of KDE Plasma packages instead of the stable ones.With Fedora Kinoite, users can update their system as a whole like an image and rollback any update if they hit a major bug. This capability lets them try out upcoming changes in KDE Plasma without fear of ending up with an unusable system as they can always go back to the previously working version.With both those changes, we are working on making testing development versions of the KDE Plasma Desktop and the KDE Apps more accessible for non technical users.Social Linkshttps://floss.social/@siosmBIOGRAPHYSee github.com/travier
Akademy 2023: Selenium GUI Testing The KDE Community 2024-04-25 | By Harald SitterFind the slides here: conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/137/attachments/79/95/selenium.pdfDESCRIPTIONIn the past year we've seen the advance of selenium-based infrastructure to conduct GUI testing of our software. I'll show you how it works and why it's amazing.BIOGRAPHYDecade-long KDE contributor. Known for KDE neon, DrKonqi, KIO-SMB, and bikeshedding.
Akademy 2023: Keynote: Libre Space Foundation - Empowering Open-Source Space Technologies The KDE Community 2023-12-21 | Find the slides of the presentation here: conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/153/attachments/69/85/Akademy-2023-keynote.pdfJoin us for a talk that highlights the potential of open-source collaboration in the space industry. Together, we can unlock new possibilities in space exploration through the power of free software, open-source hardware and open-data.The space industry is evolving rapidly, with open-source solutions playing an increasingly vital role. The Libre Space Foundation (LSF) champions this movement by developing open-source space technologies that make space exploration more accessible for everyone. In this talk, we'll introduce the Libre Space Foundation and discuss the relevance of free software in the space sector.Key points to be covered:Introduction to Libre Space Foundation: A brief overview of LSF's, history, goals, vision, and its commitment to open-source space technologies.The value of free software in space: The role of free software in promoting innovation, collaboration, and accessibility in the space industry.Challenges and opportunities: A look at some of the unique challenges LSF encounters and the ways the free software community can help address them.LSF and other free software projects: Commonalities and differences between LSF and other free software initiatives.Insights for KDE from LSF: What the KDE community can learn from LSF's experiences and how collaboration can be fostered between communities.Stories and lessons learned: A few anecdotes and takeaways from LSF's journey, highlighting the importance of community and shared vision.Future prospects: A glance at the future of Libre Space Foundation, its projects, and opportunities for the free software community to contribute.
Akademy 2023: Keynote: Kdenlive - what can we learn after 20 years of development? The KDE Community 2023-12-21 | Slides of the presentation: conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/155/attachments/85/101/Kdenlive-Akademy-23.pdfLast year marked the 20th anniversary of the Kdenlive video editor, and the start of a shift in our development. Discover the team behind this very popular project, and what we learned during these years - what are our strengths, how we are organizing our roadmap and what we are planning to avoid past mistakes and keep growing.
Akademy 2023: Over a million reasons why Snaps are important. The KDE Community 2023-12-11 | Speaker: Ms Scarlett Moore I will start out with the fact that snaps have had over a million downloads and with those kind of numbers, they cannot be ignored. I will continue on to describe here my journey in creating a vast amount of snaps, the automation of said snap building using invent.kde.org and Ubuntu launchpad builders. I will explain the hurdles I have overcome and what needs to be done to keep the snaps updated and how developers can help ensure the users are getting updates in a timely manner. The hard part is done, I have made it easy, just a few more minutes of your time at release.See the slide of this talk here: conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/125/attachments/86/102/MillionReasonsSnaps.pdf
Akademy 2023: KDE Goals: a review and plans moving forward The KDE Community 2023-10-27 | As per tradition, each Akademy has a time slot for our Goal Champions to present what's been going on with the Goals, and plans for the coming months.Find the slides here:🟠 conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/146/attachments/89/109/2023-07-15_akademy-kde-goals_sustainable-software-1.pdf🟠 conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/146/attachments/89/115/accessibility.pdf🟠 conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/146/attachments/89/105/Akademy%202023%20presentation%20Automation%20&%20Systematization.pdf🩵 Help fund KDE, become a supporting member:kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member
Akademy 2023: Measuring energy consumption of software The KDE Community 2023-10-27 | Software has a big impact on how much energy a device uses, and there are many reasons to minimize that, from battery life to climate change. But how can we optimize this, and how do we ensure changes we make are actually improvements?
Akademy 2023: KDE e.V. working group reports The KDE Community 2023-10-27 | The Working Groups of KDE e.V. support the organisation and larger KDE Community in various matters. Here they report on their work of the past year as well as upcoming plans.
Akademy 2023: KDE e.V. board report The KDE Community 2023-10-27 | KDE e.V. has done a lot of work to support the KDE Community over the last year. In this session the board reports on the work of the organization and future plans.
Akademy 2023: KDE Frameworks 6: Are we there yet? The KDE Community 2023-10-27 | Spoiler: No.But how far are we on our way to full KF6 glory? And what challenges lay ahead? In this talk we are going to look at the current state of Qt6/KF6 porting in KDE. Application developers will learn how porting works in practice, how to approach it and what to look out for. We are also going to look at the remaining challenges for developing and releasing KF6 and a tentative release plan.This is going to be the last KF6 talk, we promise!🟠 Find the slides here:conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/143/attachments/72/88/kde-akademy2023-kf6-are-we-there-yet.pdf🩵 Help fund KDE, become a supporting member:kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member
Akademy 2023: KRunner: Past, Present, and Future - Porting, New Features, and Plugin Distribution The KDE Community 2023-10-27 | KRunner is an essential part of Plasma, providing a fast way to access applications, files, and utilities on both desktop and mobile. In this talk, we will explore the evolution of KRunner and focus on the present state as well as future plans.Three years ago, an Akademy BOF was held to discuss KRunner and specifically DBus runners. Since then, KF6 refactorings and cleanups have significantly affected the API, resulting in important changes and new features. In this talk, we will summarize these changes and explore how to port and improve existing runners.
Akademy 2023: Plasma 6 is coming The KDE Community 2023-10-27 | Plasma is being porting as well to Qt6 and KF6. Some things will change, some things will stay more "stable". This talk will go over what this will mean for the end user, but also what it will mean for the developer.It will be presented the VDG vision for the user experience, the current state of affairs and what will change for the plasmoid author, what api is different and why
Akademy 2023: An OSS tool for comprehending huge codebases The KDE Community 2023-10-27 | We'll show and explain our tool (currently under development sponsored by Bloomberg) and how we've been using the KDE project as a case study. Tool is relevant to software developers trying to visualize and understand the code and those trying to maintain and analyse their code that, for instance, are part or make use of the KDE Frameworks (KF5 / KF6). This visualization, analysis, and development tool is based on the ideas from John Lakos' book "Large Scale C++ Software Design".
Discover GCompris The KDE Community 2023-09-14 | GCompris (gcompris.net) includes well over a hundred fun educational activities. In this video you will learn how they are divided into categories and see a number of examples of what you can find in the GComrpis treasure trove.
Count the Items The KDE Community 2023-08-01 | In this activity, children learn how to count by first grouping items, and then counting the items in each group.Find out more at gcompris.net !!
Akademy 2023 - Sunday 16th July - Room 2 The KDE Community 2023-07-17 | 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.
Akademy 2023 - Sunday 16th July - Room 1 The KDE Community 2023-07-16 | 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.
Akademy 2023 - Saturday 15th July - Room 2 The KDE Community 2023-07-15 | 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.
Akademy 2023 - Saturday 15th July - Room 1 The KDE Community 2023-07-15 | 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.
Welcome to Akademy 2023! The KDE Community 2023-07-14 | The KDE Community welcomes you to #Akademy2023. Find out more about Akademy 2023 here:akademy.kde.org/2023Register here:akademy.kde.org/2023/registerMusic is "No Control" by Jahzzar:freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Super_1222/03_No_ControlDistributed under a CC BY-SA license.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
KDE workshop at UOM: Making a Difference - 23rd of May 2023 The KDE Community 2023-06-30 | **How to contribute and jump start your career in Free Software with the KDE Community**Join us for a hybrid event, either online or in-person at the University of Macedonia in Greece.A workshop on how you can make a difference in the world of free software by getting involved with the KDE Community. Learn about our vision and community structure, and discover our impact on today's world. You will also hear from our community members on skill development, career growth, volunteering, and personal growth.**Speakers:** Nate Graham and Neofytos Kolokotronis**Date:** 23 May 2023**Time:** 16:00 to 18:00 EEST**Location:** Teleconference Room, University of Macedonia, 156 Egnatia str., PC 54636, Thessaloniki, Greece and online**Topics:*** What is KDE?* How KDE has shaped today’s world?* KDE’s continuing impact today* How we got our start in KDE* What can KDE can do for you?* AkademyThis workshop is free to attend, however you need to register to reserve your space!Register! survey.kde.org/297166?lang=en
Akademy 2023 Interview: Kdenlive contributors Jean-Baptiste Mardelle and Eugen Mohr The KDE Community 2023-06-23 | Kdenlive (kdenlive.org) contributors Jean-Baptiste Mardelle and Eugen Mohr tell us how Kdenlive started out, the hurdles it had to overcome over its 20-year history, and how each of them got involved in the project.Jean-Baptiste and Eugen will be joined on the stage at #Akademy2023 by director, cinematographer, video editor and Kdenlive contributor Massimo Stella, to deliver the keynote "Kdenlive - what can we learn after 20 years of development?".conf.kde.org/event/5/timetable/?layout=room#20230716Find out more about Akademy 2023 here:akademy.kde.org/2023---This video is also available on the free and federated PeerTube video platform: tube.kockatoo.org/w/1MjNtoPo7Dvk5FC1RNE5xH
Akademy 2023 Interview: In conversation with Eleftherios Kosmas - Libre Space Foundation The KDE Community 2023-06-07 | Eleftherios will be delivering a keynote at Akademy where he will be talking about Libre Space Foundation (https://libre.space/) and the value offree software in space. conf.kde.org/event/5/contributions/153 In this interview he tells us about how he got started in the space industry, and how his love for open source shaped his choice of career.
What people think when you say Linux #linuxmyths #kde #plasma #linux #busted The KDE Community 2023-03-09 | ...
Keynote: Building the Future of Qt, Together The KDE Community 2023-01-26 | A few things have happened in The Qt Project during the last two years. Volker Hilsheimer has taken over from Lars Knoll as the new Chief Maintainer, and Pedro Bessa joined The Qt Company as the new Community Manager. And after almost two years with Qt 6 we are now getting close to the feature freeze of the second Qt 6 LTS release, Qt 6.5.In this keynote, Volker and Pedro will introduce themselves to the KDE community, and share their ideas, plans, and hopes for Qt as an Open Source project and community. Volker will share what he sees as the important drivers for Qt beyond Qt 6.5, and what he has learned from the Qt maintainers about their plans.
Goals old and new! The KDE Community 2023-01-26 | In this session, we will talk both about the Goals that were the focus of thecommunity for the last couple of years and the new ones selected by thecommunity.Meet the new Goal Champions as we announce the results of the community voteand learn what will be the direction of the community for the foreseeablefuture.We will also talk about the Goals process as a whole, why is it important andhow to make it better.
A Brief History of Terminals, and what the future holds for Konsole The KDE Community 2023-01-26 | Terminal Applications are mostly the same for the past 50 years, since their conception in the 70's. I'll introduce some changes that makes konsole the most advanced terminal that there is, comparing it with other famous terminals, showing what we do right, and also showing what we do wrong (so we can fix it).
Plasma Mobile in 2022 The KDE Community 2023-01-26 | Plasma Mobile has seen surging interest in recent years alongside the growing community around mobile Linux devices. And during this time, the project has come a long way in becoming functional and usable for users.Lots of work had to go into the software stack, adapting Plasma, KDE Frameworks and other core components for a mobile context.New applications also had to be developed to suit the needs of the platform, as well as adhering to "convergence" where they would work regardless of the platform, whether it be on desktop or mobile.During this talk, Bhushan will be going over recent developments in the underlying Plasma Mobile stack, while Devin will be presenting the work that has been done in the shell and UI.We will also show the ways how community can contribute to Plasma Mobile project.
Full Steam ahead! The KDE Community 2023-01-26 | The Steamdeck is one of the most interesting and excitement big deployments of KDE in recent times.In this talk I will share how Plasma fits into the Steamdeck and what aspects of KDE made us the right choice for their new userbase. I will then share some of the projects that contractors Blue Systems have been doing for Valve and how the work there benefits not just the Steamdeck but improves the ecosystem for all Plasma users.Finally we look at what this could mean for KDE on the whole as more vendors gain the same confidence in Plasma.
The creation of a new Plasma product The KDE Community 2023-01-26 | We will go through the process towards the creation of a new Plasma product, showing what makes the different ones (Plasma Mobile, Plasma Big Screen, Plasma Desktop, Plasma Ink (!)) different in practice and the steps necessary were we to create a new one.This talk attempts to demystify the process and show us how to run these products normally in any traditional distribution system rather than pushing for the need to create otherwise redundant ISO images.
May REUSE be with you! The KDE Community 2023-01-26 | If you want to grant users the freedom to use, study, share and improve your software, you have to grant those freedoms in the software licence. To encourage people to develop Free Software, we help developers to understand and apply Free Software licences. Since 2017, REUSE contributes to this goal. Any project that follows the initiative's recommendations makes copyright and licensing information readable for both humans and machines. In this way, we want to ensure that individuals, organisations, and companies that are reusing code are aware of the licence terms chosen by the original author.REUSE does not "reinvent the wheel". On the contrary, it integrates seamlessly into development processes and other best practices when indicating Free Software licences. In addition, there are tools and documentation to help you get started. During this talk we will take a closer look at these tools and documentation, with the bonus of seeing a live demonstration of how to make a project compliant with the REUSE specifications.
Konquering the World: Are We There Yet? The KDE Community 2023-01-26 | Four years ago I laid out a 7-step plan to spread KDE software far and wide. Learn how we're doing, what's changed since then, and what's cooking!
Panel: KDE Ecos Achievements, Impact, and To-Dos The KDE Community 2023-01-26 | Thanks to our core values of transparency and user autonomy, Free Software has an edge to become the most efficient and sustainable software. This observation has been the motivation behind the KDE Eco project since its start in 2021. We aim both to quantify and drive down the energy consumption of KDE/Free Software, as well as to cultivate a culture of sustainability within the FOSS community. In this panel discussion we will present the (i) achievements, (ii) impact, and (iii) to-dos of the KDE Eco initiative. Specifically, we will address the following:What are the achievements of KDE Eco so far? These include Okular receiving the Blue Angel eco-label, the official environmental label awarded by the German government; they also include research by KDE community members into methods of energy consumption measurements, setting up a community lab at KDAB Berlin, and developing tools for measuring software, among others.What has been the impact of the KDE Eco initiative? From the developer side, this includes discussion of efficiency-related bug reports / MR requests and efficiency changes in software design; from the user side, this includes information related to community responses in (social) media as well as quantifying engagement and other metrics.What are the to-dos going forward? Here we will present our ideas and wish lists as well as elicit input from the broader KDE community.
Breaking the Barrier to Enterprise Adoption — Why Accessibility Matters The KDE Community 2023-01-26 | The handicap accessibility of KDE software has lagged behind both proprietary and open source alternatives. This represents a tremendous barrier toward expanding our enterprise presence, as both public and private organizations have a legal requirement to provide workers and users with software that meets a certain standard of accessibility. The purpose of this talk is to inform KDE developers of how they can directly improve the lives of disabled people while attaining compliance with both open source standards and legal mandates.The issue of inadequate accessibility has already complicated the deployment of KDE software at organizations such as NASA, and will negatively impact the community's long-term ability to attract contributors. We must ensure KDE software meets modern standards for accessibility so that we can be a healthy, global, and inclusive community that elevates the lives of people through free software.
Stop Crashing Already! The KDE Community 2023-01-26 | In this talk we'll explore how KDE's software crash tracking works and how to make it more amazing using modern technologies like debuginfod, coredumpd, and Sentry.
Keynote: Asahi Linux - One chip, no docs, and lots of fun The KDE Community 2023-01-26 | On November 2020, Apple released the M1 and sent shock waves through the mobile computing space. They also did something nearly unprecedented: while they officially support booting third-party operating systems, Apple had no plans to develop them, nor provide the documentation required.We took them up on that challenge.A year and a half later, Linux 5.19 was tagged from an Apple M2 laptop running Linux. This is the story of how Asahi Linux took Linux on Apple Silicon from zero to a usable Plasma desktop in just over a year.
Whats this Wayland anyway? The KDE Community 2023-01-26 | There's still a lot of misconceptions about what Wayland is and how it in particular affects the user experience of interacting with the Linux desktop.In this presentation I want to talk about the meaning(s) of the term 'Wayland' and outline how these fit together.I also want to briefly discuss how the development of Wayland itself works and how this advances the Linux desktop ecosystem.
