Akademy Call for Papers Opens

by Joe Brockmeier - Feb. 02, 2010Comments (1)

The KDE Project is accepting papers for the Akademy conference, held this year in Tampere, Finland. Primary topics for this year's gathering are centered around making it possible for users to connect with their data and other users in new ways. The event is being organized by COSS, the Finnish Center for Open Source Solutions, and KDE e.V..

The two tracks for 2010 are "Expanding Our World: KDE Beyond The Linux Desktop" and "Connecting Our World: Social Desktop." The first track will focus on KDE technologies on mobile devices and netbooks, and the other topic centers around integrating KDE apps with social media applications and sites like Twitter, Identi.ca and services like Telepathy and Akonadi.

COSS is Finland's industry group for free software vendors and user organizations. COSS was founded in 2003 and promotes development and adoption of FLOSS in industry and the public sector. The group claims more than 130 member organizations, and is run by a steering group of sponsoring members.

This year's Akademy follows a joint conference with the GNOME Project, the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, held in July 2009. Both projects reported that the combined event was largely a success, but have decided that a combined conference should not be a yearly event. Akademy will run from July 3rd through July 10th.

Other KDE-related topics are also welcome. Submissions should be emailed to akademy-talks@kde.org, and the deadline is Friday, April 23rd. See the call for papers for full details. Papers from last year are online and might serve as a good example what the organizers are looking for.

For KDE contributors who aren't able to make it to Europe, the KDE Project also puts on Camp KDE, which was held recently in January in San Diego.