Wade asked for more posts about Akademy. So here's a post about a future Akademy. And not just any future Akademy, but perhaps the first one where GUADEC will be co-hosted with us.
The KDE e.V. and GNOME Foundation boards put out a coordinated call for bids to host a combined Akadmey and GUADEC in 2009. We didn't make it mandatory: people could still put in a bid for just Akademy or just GUADEC. The response was terrific, however.
We received no less than four offers, one of which was unfortunately too late to make the deadline for 2009's proposals. (But I hope to see them again for 2010!) We also received zero Akademy only and zero GUADEC only proposals.
To put this into perspective, GNOME received 3 proposals in the last two years combined. We received 4 proposals for 2008's Akademy, but only 3 IIRC for 2007. So even though the bar was raised considerably, our response has increased or kept pace compared to the past. Impressive.
Want to read the proposals for yourself? We're hosting them over on Behdad's (cool GNOME board member and Free software hacker that he is) web space on gnome.org thanks to Behdad being the quickest on the draw to get the proposals up somewhere we could all read them. So without further verbage, go on over to the 2009 proposals and check out the cool places we might all be gathering next year: Coruña, Spain; Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain; Tampere, Finland.
As for this year's Akademy? We already know it's going to rock. =) See you there, Wade.
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I think a combined Guadec + aKademy conference will hurt KDE and aKademy:
- Guadec is about 6 times bigger than aKademy, which would dilute the KDE presence
- Guadec is a Gtk + Gnome conference, while aKademy is a KDE-only conference
- While aKademy attendants are mostly people developing KDE software on their spare time, Guadec is more of a "suits" conferences because many companies attend not because of the Gnome part but because of the Gtk part
- Guadec is (or at least used to be until 2007) a pay-for conference, while aKademy is free (no cost; aKademy 2005 was the last time payment was required and it was only for companies)
IMHO, it would be better if we had three conferences:
- Guadec for Gtk + Gnome
- Trolltech Developer Days + aKademy (Qt + KDE). This would bring companies using Qt to the KDE ship, mostly but not limited to kdelibs and kdepimlibs. From 2009 on we will have aKademy Europe and aKademy Americas, which match perfectly with Trolltech Developer Days Europe and Trolltech Developer Days America.
- A "meeting point conference", some kind of cross-desktop conference, which is what Guademy has been trying to do for the last two years. Of course this conference should be cross-cross-cross: cross desktop (Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc), cross-platform (Linux, Windows, Mac, *BSD, etc) and even cross-compiler (gcc, Visual C++, Intel C++, LLVM, Sun CC, etc).
If you manage Tampere, that'd be cool because I just moved there.
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