[dot] Akademy-es 2007 in Zaragoza Spain

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From: Aleix Pol Gonzalez <aleixpol at gmail.com>
Dept: in-spain-we-got-kde
Date: Thursday22/Nov/2007, @09:05

Akademy-es 2007 in Zaragoza Spain
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   This past weekend, November 16th through the 18th, Zaragoza Spain was
the home of Akademy-es 2007 [http://www.ereslibre.es/akademy-es]. The
conference began early Saturday morning and finished Monday with a
Hackathon. Akademy-es 2007, hosted by Hispalinux, Wireless Zaragoza, and
the Zaragoza council, was a conference specifically for KDE developers
and users from around Spain.

     The conference began early Saturday morning and consisted of talks
by various members of the KDE community. Pau Garcia presented CMake and
its various features, Alex Pol presented KDevelop 3 + CMake and even
presented the new ideas pertaining to KDevelop 4. Alfredo Beaumont
presented KOffice 2 and how it is taking shape as well as talked about
ODF technologies and Flake. Thomas Nagy presented the mindmapping tool
for documentation generation, Semantik.

     Alfredo Beaumont presenting KOffice2

     After lunch on Saturday, more presentations took place. Aleix Pol
presented KAlgebra by explaining its purpose as well as what it can do
right now and the future of it. Albert Astals presented some of the KDE
4 development technologies by using KTuberling as an example, which
became an instant hit at Akademy-es 2007. Rafael Fernández presented
Goya by explaining how to use it in order to get MVC-based interfaces
with widgets. To close the talks on Saturday, Isaac Clerencia and Javier
Uruen presented Inspektor, a frontend for strace, and explained how they
have started its development as well as some of the problems they have
faced.

     Akademy-es 2007 Group Photo

     Everyone enjoying food and drink Saturday evening

     Sunday morning was all about Antonio Larrosa displaying the latest
improvements of KDE 4. Antonio also spoke of the expectations from the
KDE 4 libraries to KDE 4's applications and desktop features.

     For a complete breakdown of the weekends festivities, feel free to
view the program
[http://www.ereslibre.es/akademy-es/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=44]
as well as check out some of the presentations from the conference.