I spent this week in Graz, the weekdays as part of the KDE Mega Sprint 2026 and Saturday attending Grazer Linuxtage 2026.
Before arriving in Graz I already did some work on the train from Vienna. I published a new version of kio-gopher so KDE Frameworks 6 applications can browse gopher sites and helped finish the review of KDominate, Albert Vaca's latest tactical game.
At the Sprint itself many things were achieved, too many to remember.
There was some discussion about improving release notes so they go into the appstream files and end up in lots of interesting places (apps.kde.org, Discover, etc).
I also talked a bit with David Edmundson on how to streamline our work in the KDE Security team.
Another important thing was that we introduced a way to help us enable the LeakSanitizer in more repositories (by ignoring leaks that are not our fault and that we can't control)
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| Non-planned group photo of Sprint attendees, a few are missing. Apologies! |
While we were at the Sprint it was announced that we will have Akademy 2026 also in Graz. So start preparing to visit Austria in late September!
Grazer Linuxtage was very nice, as far as I've heard also very successful in attendance, with the estimate being around 50% more than the previous year (hard to calculate when you don't require registration).
There were not many talks in English but the ones I attended were interesting. If you have time I would recommend giving them a quick skim to see if they interest you.
Transitous - Free and Open Public transport routing (from KDE's own Volker Krause)
What can we learn from Android for other embedded Linux systems security? (Every app in Android is a different Linux user)
LibreOffice: What we're doing, where we're going, and how you can help (Very fashionable given the latest rifts in the community (sadly))
How we hacked the Bavarian State with an Open Source Open Letter (About how to pressure administrations not to give Microsoft all of our tax money)
I gave a talk about KDE and the 30 years of the Linux desktop, that from the reaction of the attendees I think it was well received, that's always nice :)
The video from my talk is available at https://media.ccc.de/v/glt26-691-kde-30-years-of-the-linux-desktop
Thanks everyone involved in the organization and Kevin Krammer in particular for hosting us!
