Presentations

Presentations at the KDE Conference will cover many different topics related to KDE, its open development process, and the future of the the Free Desktop. Below you will find some of the presentations that will be made at aKademy 2006.

Keynotes

• Looking Ourselves In The Eye - The Quest for Project Identity and Definition (Aaron Seigo, KDE)
• The State of the Linux Desktop - An OSDL Perspective (John Cherry, OSDL)
• Software Patents (Ciaran O'Riordan, FSF Europe)

Presentations

KDE 4

Chair: Mirko Böhm

• Keeping Users in Mind (Ellen Reitmayr)
• Plasma - What the bleep is it? (Aaron Seigo)
• Phonons in Solids - Internals and Usage Explained (Matthias Kretz, Kevin Ottens)
• Akonadi - The KDE 4.0 PIM Framework (Tobias Koenig)
• Decibel - You Are Not Alone! (Tobias Hunger)
• State of KHTML (George Staikos)
• KDE 4 Development Setup (David Faure)
• Accessibility of KDE 4.x applications (Gunnar Schmi Dt)

Cross Desktop

Chair: Adriaan de Groot

• QtDBus and interoperability (Thiago Macieira)
• Portland, Cross Desktop Integration Made Easy (Waldo Bastian)
• The Linux Standard Base (Harald Fernengel)
• Towards a More Secure Networked Desktop Environment (George Staikos)
• Competition And Cooperation - An Honest Look At The Dynamics Between The KDE And GNOME Communities (John 'J5' Palmieri)
• KDE Integration & Embedded Software Architecture on the Ricoh Platform (Jin Yoon)
• Multi-Head RandR (Keith Packard)

Asia

Chair: Waldo Bastian

• KDE Cross Cultural - Experiences From The KDE Localization Process In Cambodia (Jens Herden)
• Bridging the Cultural Open Source Divide (Dhananjay Keskar)
• Opportunities for KDE in India (Pradeepto Bhattacharya)

Community

Chair: Matthias Welwarsky

• Organization of KDE Events (Claire Lotion and Martijn Klingens)
• KDE Support - a challenging way to contribute (Kevin Krammer)
• How to Make Your Program Popular (Inge Wallin)
• Interactive community and fund raising - Sponsored development model (Eric Laffoon)
• Women in Free Software (Anne Østergaard)

Programming

Chair: Aaron Seigo

• Performance techniques (Lubos Lunak)
• Valgrinding complete KDE sessions (Julian Seward)
• How to Make Your Application or Widget Style Accessible (Olaf Jan Schmidt)
• An Introduction to CMake, CTest and Dart (Bill Hoffman)
• Qyoto/Kimono C# bindings (Richard Dale)
• The Design and Implementation KJSEmbed (Richard Moore)
• Kross - The Scripting Framework (Sebastian Sauer)
• Network Status Support in KDE and How To Use It (Will Stephenson)

Applications

Chair: Cornelius Schumacher

• English Breakfast Network (Adriaan de Groot)
• Accomplishments And Challenges Of The KDevelop Team (Alexander Dymo)
• spectaKle, an open source digital-signage and video-on-demand platform (Pau Garcia i Quiles)
• KDE and Consumer Electronics - The Lost Momentum (Holger Freyther)
• Debian-Edu/Skolelinux - KDE in the tough school environment (Christian Külker)
• Kraft - KDE Software for Craftsmen Business (Klaas Freitag)
• Kickoff - Start Menu Research (Stephan Kulow)
• Debian KDE Extras Team Presentation (Mark Purcell)

There is also a list of presentations from past aKademys:

• aKademy 2005 developers conference
• aKademy 2005 users conference
• aKademy 2004 developers conference
• aKademy 2004 users conference
• Kastle 2003 contributors conference