KDE Akademy 2008
Community Congregation
About 300 attendees gathered at this year's annual KDE desktop developer event in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium.
From August 9 to August 15, the Campus De Nayer – part of the Lessius Technical University in Sint-Katelijne-Waver [1] – provided the backdrop for about 300 Akademy 2008 attendees.
Cornelius Schuhmacher, a member of the KDE e.V. board, presented a keynote talk focused on the current state of affairs at KDE. Vincent Untz, Gnome Foundation board member and Gnome Release Manager, delivered an emotional talk on cross-desktop platforms. Untz called for a common desktop platform, saying that users don't really mind which desktop environment an application belongs to because they judge applications on their own merit.
On the GUI front, a budding social desktop was introduced by Frank Karlitschek, the maintainer of several artwork and contributer web pages. In his keynote talk, Karlitschek proposed new plasmoids for the KDE desktop, including a kind of buddy list that would display photos of users near a person's computer location.
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