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From: Jos Poortvliet <>
Dept: i'd-like-to-thank
Date: Wednesday 04/Jul/2007, @11:21

Akademy Awards 2007 
====================

   At the second day of aKademy 2007, the contributors conference closed
with the aKademy Awards [http://www.kde.org/history/akademyawards/]
Ceremony. Two of last years winners, Boudewijn Rempt and Laurent Montel
awarded no less than four awards to Sebastian Trueg, Mathias Kretz,
Danny Allen and Kenny Duffus. Read on for more details.
  This year's winners:
    * 2007 aKademy Award for Best ApplicationSebastian
      Trueg [http://www.behindkde.org/people/trueg/] for what might be
      the application with the best reputation on linux: K3B.
    * 2007 aKademy Awards Jury's AwardDanny Allen
      [http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/1209] for making the most
      anticipated weekly writing in the KDE community: his Weekly Commit
      Digest.
    * Finally, we had an unofficial category, the 2007 aKademy Award
      for aKademy, which went to Kenny Duffus
      [http://www.duffus.org/] and his team for the enormous amount of
      time, energy and work devoted to making the conference possible.
  [http://static.kdenews.org/dannya/akademy_award.jpg]
     The awards ceremony is becoming a valuable tradition at aKademy. It
is good to award those who have been an inspiration to the community. So
this year, we went even further than last year, and had statuettes of
cast-metal gears made. Unfortunately, it was not fully appreciated that
'real' things actually take time to be manufactured, and so were not
presented at the ceremony. Two of the four winners were personally at
aKademy, and thus they received a picture of Konqi, signed by all KDE
people at aKademy. And of course, the promise that the statuette would
be sendtto their home address. Furthermore, each winner recieved a  a
"Mastering CMake" book, sponsored by Kitware [http://www.kitware.com/]
and a one year subscription to Linux Magazine
[http://www.linux-mag.com/], sponsored of course by Linux Magazine.
Kitware also sponsored a digital camera, which was given to Danny Allen.

     The KDE project looks forward to recognising the work of
contributors in the coming year, when this year's winners will decide
the recipients of this most worthy award of the KDE community.