Two weekends ago, I spent around 24 hours in a train to go to and back from Graz to attend Akademy. This year was a bit special since we are celebrating the 30 years of KDE and this was also my first time attending as a member of the KDE e.V. board.
Unfortunately I could only attend the weekend as I was also expected at the Nextcloud Community Conference in Berlin during the week.
I attended a bunch of talks, one of my favorite was “Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?” from Scott Jenson, which I found super interesting and insightful. It really was a call for us to try to innovate and experiment with new UX concepts and he proposed some interesting directions, where we could be going. A good wake up call that now that macOS and Windows are not inventing anything anymore on the desktop we should be driving UX changes forward.
I also very much liked the talk “What Has Been Brewing in KDE PIM Land?” from Dominique Michel and arnaud chirat. As a fellow PIMster, it is great to see some real progress on fixing some longstanding issue in the backend. It’s great to see the Sovereign Tech Agency investing in this core technology. This also motivated me to spend some time on improving Merkuro again (more on that in a separate post).
Aside from that, as always it’s great to meet up with my fellow KDE developers, share some drinks, exchange ideas or just catch up.
On Saturday evening, I attended the sponsors dinner to discuss a bit with our sponsors. Akademy is a free event to attend and we are very grateful about companies sponsoring us to make it happen.
Sunday morning, I went for a short stroll across the city, because while I was only staying for the weekend, I still wanted to discover Graz at least a bit.
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