[dot] First KDE Appreciation Awards Announced

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1125411946/

From: Daniel Molkentin <molkentin at kde.org>
Dept: aKademy-awards-now-also-in-malaga
Date: Tuesday 30/Aug/2005, @09:25

First KDE Appreciation Awards Announced
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   This year's aKademy saw a whole new innovation: The KDE Appreciation
Awards, also known as the "aKademy Awards". Their purpose is to
recognize outstanding contribution to the KDE community. The awards are
for best application, best contribution to KDE and the Jury's Choice
Award.  The jury consisted of the well-known KDE hackers Aaron Seigo,
Brad Hards, David Faure and Matthias Ettrich. If you want to know who
the winners are, read on!
    Aaron Presents the Award to Enrico
[http://static.kdenews.org/danimo/akademyawards05.png]
     The award for the best application went to Albert Astral Cid and
Enrico Ros for their amazing work KPDF [http://kpdf.kde.org]. In the
last year KPDF has gone from a poor comparison to KGhostScript to the
best Free Software PDF reader available.  As part of the Poppler
[http://poppler.freedesktop.org/] PDF library and the new oKular
[http://developer.kde.org/summerofcode/okular.html] universal document
viewer they are set to remain the leader.

     The prize for the best contribution was awarded to Lauri Watts
[http://www.kde.nl/people/lauri.html], the KDE documentation
coordinator, for her outstanding and long-running work which has
resulted in KDE have the largest collection of DocBook in the world.

     Finally, the "Jury's Choice Award" went to release coordinator
Stephan Kulow [http://people.kde.org/stephan.html] and KDM-Maintainer
Oswald Buddenhagen for the effort they have put into the Subversion
migration [http://dot.kde.org/1115285369/]. KDE development has been
faster and easier thanks to the long hours they put into the conversion.

     The winners will receive a framed picture of Konqi signed by all
attending KDE developers.

     Next year, the jury panel will consist of this year's winners. At
aKademy 2006 it will be up to them to select the most outstanding work
from within the KDE community. Credits go to our very own David Vignoni
[http://kde-artists.org/main/content/view/42/29/] for designing the
awards.