Akademy-es call for papers expanded to October 27

This year Akademy-es is a bit special since it is happening in the Internet so you don't need to travel to Spain to participate.

If you're interested in giving a talk please visit https://www.kde-espana.org/akademy-es-2020/presenta-tu-charla for more info.

Akademy-es 2019 talks announced!

Akademy-es 2019 will be happening this June 28-30 in Vigo.

The talks were just announced recently.

Check them out at https://www.kde-espana.org/akademy-es-2019/programa-akademy-es-2019 it has lots of interesting talks so if you understand Spanish and are interested in KDE or Free Software in general I'd really recommend to attend!

Akademy-es 2018 in Valencia - 11-13 May

This years Akademy-es will be happening in Valencia from 11 to 13 of May. The call for papers is still open so if speak Spanish and have something interesting to share with your fellow KDE people send a talk :)

We'll open registration shortly, be sure to attend and say hi!

Akademy 2015 and Akademy-es 2015 recap

I'm back home after more than a week of talks and hacking in the beautiful city of A Coruña.

There I attended Akademy, the international conference of the KDE Community, and Akademy-es, it's Spanish counterpart.

First off I'd like to thank the local organization, GPUL, that as always has done an amazing job in hosting us, repeating the success of Guademy, Akademy-es 2008, KDE-EDu sprint, etc.

Also kudos to the Scottish-Kenny duo, top notch organizing work as always.

Finally thanks to the both Akademy and Akademy-es sponsors. Specially Qindel, that sponsored us for the first time, hope we can continue the relationship in the future.

The talks this year were specially interesting, I attended some good BoFs on releasing and translation infrastructure, hopefully some improvements coming your way soon :)

Of course not everything is perfect and my biggest pain point this year was that we did not have as much people in Akademy-es as we expected. Akademy-es happened the 2 days before Akademy and this meant that lots of local people from the organization team were helping set up the place instead of attending the talks; also on Friday some of us (I count at least 8) were attending the KDE e.V. General Assembly so couldn't attend Akademy-es either. Definitely something to think about and improve next time Akademy and Akademy-es happen at the same place.

But all in all pretty positive experience as always, nice to meet so many KDE people :)

Akademy-es 2015 registration open

We have just opened the registration for Akademy-es 2015.

This year we are piggy-backing on the Akademy 2015 registration system since Akademy-es 2015 happens in the same place just 2 days before so we thought it made sense have a common registration for both.

More info at https://www.kde-espana.org/akademy-es2015/registro.php

See you at A Coruña!

Akademy-es 2014 in Málaga

This year, the 9th Akademy-es will take place in Málaga from 16 to 18 May.

Málaga is the city that hosted Akademy 2005 and were a few few crazy people met and thought about doing Akademy-es 2006 next year in Barcelona, and after that, 9 years in a row. Not bad :-)

I'm definitely going and you should if you're interested in KDE too. And of course you should think about submitting a talk :-)
Finally if you have a company you may want to join and sponsor the event, have a look at the sponsor page.

Registration is still not open but will be in a few days/weeks.

Hope to see you there :-)

I'm going to Bilbao!

I will be in Bilbao from July 11th to 19th. I am going to be attending lots of different events


The first of the events is the Akademy-es, Akademy little sister that we've been celebrating since 2006, this year we have modified of usual schedule of making it happen in a weekend to accommodate for Akademy schedule, so it will run from Thursday to Friday. In Akademy-es I'll be talking of how Qt5 and KDE projects fit together and also about QML, QtQuick and the other declarative-y things you can find in Qt world.


Obviously I'll also be at Akademy, I've been attending each year since 2005 so I couldn't miss it :-) I'm looking forward to lots of the talks there, but specially the keynote by Kevin Ottens :-) I will be running for a position in the KDE e.V. board as announced in the kde-community mailing list a few weeks ago, wish me luck!

Qt Contributor Summit
On Monday and Tuesday we will have the Qt Contributor Summit running in parallel with Akademy. I will be there with my Canonical-hat making sure everything QML-y we need for the Ubuntu software we are writing in Qt is fine and dandy :-)


And incidentally from Thursday to Saturday there's Green Day, Depenche Mode, Kings of Leon, Biffy Clyro and a lot more of bands playing in Bilbao, so I could not miss them!

Rock on Bilbao!

Akademy-es 2013 schedule ready!

As you probably know we are having Akademy-es 2013 just a few days earlier than Akademy in Bilbao, from 11th to 12th of July.

We have just made the schedule available. If you understand Spanish you may want to come to Bilbao a few days earlier to enjoy our talks :-)

Akademy-es 2012 - First day gone

So the first day of the Akademy-es 2012 is already gone.

My day started early in the morning in Barcelona getting train to go to Zaragoza. Got there in less than 2 hours. Nice :-)

After getting to the hotel we headed to the nice Seminario building where today's talks took place.

We started with the welcoming ceremony with the local autorities (City Council local free software companies association (CESLA)), followed by me doing a quick summary of all the talks that would follow in the whole conference.

After that, Paul Brown (of Linux Magazine Spain fame) did a great talk about the whys and how of some typical/silly questions we in the Free Software world get. This was my first time attending a Paul Brown talk and I have to say he is really a gifted speaker.

Then we recharged our energy with coffe and pastries and got prepared to listen Agustín explaining how KDE is great for companies and to Baltasar talk about Plasma Active, unfortunately I could not attend those last two talks since I was helping moving some stuff to the place where tomorrow talks will take place, but I'm sure they were awesome :-)

You can find some photos in Alex Fiestas' twitter, http://yfrog.com/kedhqjhj, http://yfrog.com/odsc5kkaj, http://t.co/euiscuzi, http://yfrog.com/ntnmmrnj, and of course you can watch the #akademyes hashtag.

Akademy-es 2012 it's here!

It is the time of the year of Akademy-es, the yearly KDE users and developers spanish meeting, if you were wondering were are the news, stop wondering! It's here ;-)



The Akademy-es 2012 will take place in the nice city of Zaragoza from 18th to 20th of May

Registration is open and the schedule is almost final and of course a big thanks to our hosts and sponsors.

See you in Zaragoza!

KDE España is looking for Akademy-es 2012 locations

In KDE España we are looking for a group or organization in condition of co-organizer for Akademy-es 2012. If you are interested have a look at the call for locations page. If you are interested do not forget to send your submission in before February 25th.

Akademy-es 2011 videos and slides

You can find the Akademy-es 2011 videos and slides at
http://kde-espana.es/akademy-es2011/material.php. Thanks to Victor for the work encoding them and putting them on the Internet and thanks to Kiko for making sure that the only videos that were not properly recorded are my talks :D

Akademy-es 2011 starting today

Akademy-es 2011 is starting today :-)

Today talks include a talk about translations by part of Catalan KDE translation crew, how about how to contribute by Aleix, one about telepathy by Alex and me speaking about potatos.

Thanks to our kind sponsors Google and Qt/Nokia :-)

Akademy-es 2011 schedule ready

We just published the schedule for Akademy-es 2011 that will happen in Barcelona from 20 to 22 of May. Make sure to register if you plan to attend!

Akademy-es 2011

KDE Spain is organizing in Barcelona the Akademy-es 2011, the annual meeting of KDE users and contributors in Spain from May 20th through May 22nd.

During the last events attendance and the technical quality of the papers have increased significantly making the Akademy-es, is one of the most important KDE events worldwide.

New this year, the event will take place in two different locations, thereby adjusting each activity to its ideal location. Friday's activities will be held at the Campus Nord of the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya and weekend ones will be at school Sant Marc de Sarrià.

You can find more infomation at the event website.

KDE Spain looking for a place to host Akademy-es 2011

We are looking for a place to host the annual Spanish KDE event, if you feel like helping us co-organize the event please visit http://www.kde-espana.es/akademy-es2011/ubicacion.php

Akademy-es 2010 videos available

Akademy-es 2010 talks are now available at http://www.kde-espana.es/akademy-es2010/doku.php?id=materiales

Talks are in Spanish (except one that is on Basque) so if you don't understand it, you are out of luck.

I hope that those of you that could not come enjoy the videos and maybe they convince you so you come next year ;-)

Akademy-es 2010 talks streaming

Hi, just a heads up that Akademy-es 2010 talks will be streamed, you can get the info at http://kde-espana.es/akademy-es2010/doku.php?id=streaming. Yes, we know not a very Free Software friendly format, but that's what you get when you reuse the University hardware. The talks will also be recorded and published somewhere somewhen.

Interviewed about Okular

Akademy-es 2010 coordinator interviews me about Okular. Read it in spanish at his blog.

Akademy-es 2010 schedule published

Akademy-es 2010 schedule has just been published, you can see it at the event web page. It includes talks of all kinds, ranging from purely development ones to how to deploy KDE using thin clients passing through KDE programs on Windows.

On a related note we are very happy that we almost have 80 registered attendants at the moment, if you want to register, remember tomorrow is the last day!

And finally i'd like to thank our sponsors: Cenatic, Bilbao city, University of Basque Country, Euskaltel, Basque Country Government, Qt/Nokia, cast-info, irontec and ESLE, not forgetting our media associates Linux Magazine and Todo Linux, the host ETSI Bilbao and of course the local organizers itsas.