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!

KDEEdu sprint is over for me

I'm sitting at the Coruña airport waiting for my plane for Barcelona to leave. This means my three days at the KDEEdu Sprint 2013 are gone. It's been good to meet new people like Punit, get to know better people I had already met like Samikshan and meet old co-sprints like Sebastian and Andreas, and of course re-meeting my fellow KDE España friends Jose, Aleix and Santa. Sadly Oindrila could not make it due to visa problems :-(

In these three days we'd had time to talk about KDE Edu apps future on mobile, KF5 ports, libkdeedu splitting and lots of other stuff.

I tried to port Blinken over the BB10. Got stuck trying to compile stuff using cmake until I found KDE's own Laszlo Papp guide. Unfortunately other stuff got in the middle and I could not finish the port, but now I'm closer and if I can find a couple of free afternoons will probably have something in the BB10 store.

Unrelated to KDEEdu i finally got time to create a review request for a patch i worked a few weeks ago that will hopefully workaround one of the most hated crashes people are having in the KDE Plasma Desktop, let's see if that helps.

Finally, I'd like to thank GPUL and KDE e.V. for organizing and sponsoring the event. And specially thanks to Jose for his mad organizing skills, you're awesome :-)