Akademy

Are we creating an OS? Is KDE even the right place? The rumor mills are churning. What is behind project "🍌 OS"? Is this finally the time to create a KDE OS? What does it take to make a good OS?

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In this video we highlight and honor some of our most beloved and impactful contributors in the KDE Community. We are proud of their work.

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Over the 28 years KDE has been active, the community has developed its own particular vision, goals, values, norms of behavior and processes.

Yet, as a living organism, it constantly needs to adapt to the ever evolving world around it, and to remain coherent, ensure that new contributors internalize the community's character and expectations.

Join me to explore this journey, regarding the critical role of establishing and sustaining a strong community culture within open source projects, delving into best practices and continuous engagement strategies, and examine how to create an environment where culture evolves positively over time.

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Last year during Akademy I presented the Union styling system, which is a project to create a styling engine that is intended to unify the various styling methods we use in KDE.

Now, about a year later, I will talk about what kind of progress has been made to achieve this goal. I will discuss some of the new major features that have been developed, the state of adopting Union within KDE and some plans for the future.

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User Interfaces (UI) are an essential part of our lives, we use them every day, in all our devices, everywhere we go. At the same time, we see new technologies and programming languages enriching our tech scenario, but in some cases, they don’t have the necessary modules to produce those UIs.

Qt is currently a widely used framework, that has proven to be mature enough to be a industry-quality solution for people that want to develop User Interfaces. However, being written in C++ limits the people that can use it. Luckily, a few bindings to newer languages, like Qt for Python have been around to open the doors to new generations of developers, but the problem is not solved. Writing bindings to new languages or even re-writing modules in new languages is an enormous task that needs a better solution.

With that in mind, one of the Qt Framework goals is to find ways of using our technology that has been around for a long time, in a quick manner, without requiring a lot of knowledge of programming languages that are not familiar with our stack.

On this talk, you will learn about a new initiative within the Qt Project that aims to unlock the Qt framework’s features and technology into more programming languages without the need of relying on bindings or learning C++.

No previous experience in Qt nor C++ is required for attending this talk.

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Last year we covered the "KDE Neon Core" effort to bring Plasma on Ubuntu Core. We focused on the work required and the challenges we encountered along the way. We concluded on an upcoming radical change in the system architecture.

This time, we will focus on what changed during the past year. It will be a status update on the system architecture change from a technical perspective.

We will also highlight how this reconfigured our relationships with the Snap ecosystem and KDE Neon itself. The dynamics for managing upgrades on such systems is very different from systems with unconfined sessions. This brings constraints on our own dependency management.

Last but not least, we'll cover some of the broader interest in the KDE ecosystem this effort seems to bring.

If you're curious about the new KDE Neon Core architecture and its outcomes (technical or otherwise), this talk will be for you.

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Over the last year many KDE libraries have gained bindings for Python and Rust, enabling developers using these languages to create KDE applications.

In this talk we are going to look into why this is important, how the binding generation works under the hood, how to use them in applications, and what their existence means for KDE as a community.

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Through real experiences and lessons learned, the talk highlights the challenges, small wins, and internal grit required to claim space in a male-dominated industry — and offers encouragement to anyone who's ever felt underestimated.

This session is not just about gender — it’s about perseverance, perception, and identity in tech. The talk will explore what it means to grow in a professional space where your role is often assumed before it's understood, and how that shaped a leadership journey rooted in resilience rather than conformity.

By sharing real examples from open source events, client interactions, and everyday professional dynamics, this talk opens up a conversation about how subtle bias shows up — and how to push past it without burning out.

It’s aimed at anyone who has ever been misjudged, overlooked, or questioned — not just women. It will resonate with those trying to build a voice, lead authentically, or support inclusivity in meaningful ways.

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KEcoLab is an automation tool that allows KDE developers to remotely measure the energy consumption of their KDE software through GitLab CI/CD. Instead of obtaining measurements manually and in person in a lab such as the one at KDAB, Berlin, KDE developers can trigger the process through GitLab CI/CD, wherever they are. This enables developers to effortlessly assess their software's energy consumption when merging new code into the codebase.

KEcoLab opens the door for data-driven software development that prioritizes energy efficiency, while also making it easy to obtain the reports needed for certifying software with the Blue Angel ecolabel, the official environmental label of the German government.

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Historically, we have developed our applications locally together with the system libraries and someone else has been taking care of the distribution of the application. With the introduction of Flatpak amongst other tools we have been breaking that barrier, thus allowing KDE to ship the apps to fellow Linux users.

While that works for the most part, there is still a last mile part of the story that I keep seeing our fellow developers miss which is the actual development time. We keep using flatpak as the distribution method rather than the actual environment where the application is developed.

In this presentation I'd like to explain how I've been doing such development personally with KDevelop and will also offer some ways of doing so for other editors in our ecosystem like Kate, vim or vscode. This will ensure a simpler development story and a more accurate QA process.

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