We have moved the deadline for talk submission for Akademy 2025 to the end of the month. Submit your talks now!
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A blog about random things and sometimes about my work translating and developing KDE and anything
We have moved the deadline for talk submission for Akademy 2025 to the end of the month. Submit your talks now!
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2025q2/008217.html
These past two days I attended the Qt World Summit 2025
It happened in Munich in the SHOWPALAST MÜNCHEN. The venue is HUGE, we had around 800 attendees (unofficial sources, don't trust the number too much) and it felt it could hold more. One slightly unfortunate thing is that it was a bit cold (temperatures in Munich these two days were well below the average for May) and quite some parts of the venue are outdoors, but you can't control the weather, so not much to "fix" here.
The venue is somewhat strangely focused on horses, but that's nothing more than an interesting quirk.
Qt World Summit is an event for the Qt developers around the world and the talks range from showcases of Qt in different products, to technical talks about how to improve performance along others less Qt centric talks about how to collaborate with other developers or about "modern C++".
As KDE we participated in the event with a stand trying to explain people what we do (David Redondo and Nicolas Fella were more in the stand than me, kudos to them)
Talks for the videos will be published "soon" (or so I've been told). When that happens the ones I recommend you to watch are "Navigating Code Collaboration" by LAURA SAVINO, "QML Bindings in Qt6" by ULF HERMANN and "C++ as a 21st Century Language" by BJARNE STROUSTRUP, but the agenda was packed with talks so make sure to check the videos since probably your tastes and mine don't 100% align.
All in all it was a great event, it is good to see that Qt is doing well since we use it for the base of almost everything we do in KDE. Thanks to The Qt Company and the rest of the sponsors for organizing it.
Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 25.04
releases to them
Next Dates
March 13 2025: 25.04 Freeze and Beta (25.03.80) tag & release
March 27, 2025: 25.04 RC (25.03.90) Tagging and Release
April 10, 2025: 25.04 Tagging
April 17, 2025: 25.04 Release
https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_25.04_Schedule
This is the release schedule the release team agreed on
https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_25.04_Schedule
Dependency freeze is in around 3 weeks (March 6) and feature freeze one
after that. Get your stuff ready!
Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 24.12
releases to them
Next Dates:
This weekend "The KDE Alberts"[1] attended Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2024 in Sunnyvale, California.
The Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit is an annual
unconference that every project participating in Google Summer of Code
2024 is invited to attend. This year it was the 20th year celebration of the program!
I was too late to take a picture of the full cake!
We attended many sessions ranging from how to try to avoid falling into the "xz problem" to collecting donations or shaping the governance of open source projects.
We met lots of people that knew what KDE was and were happy to congratulate us on the job done and also a few that did not know KDE and were happy to learn about what we do.
We also did a quick lightning talk about the GSOC projects KDE mentored this year and led two sessions: one centered around the problems some open source application developers are having publishing to the Google Play Store and another session about Desktop Linux together with our Gnome friends.
All in all a very productive unconference. We encourage KDE mentors to take the opportunity to attend the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit next year, it's a great experience!
[1] me and Albert Vaca, people were moderately amused that both of us had the same name, contribute to the same community and are from the same city.