[dot] Akademy 2008 to be Held in Belgium

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From: Bart Coppens & Bart Cerneels <>
Dept: land-of-beer-and-waffels
Date: Friday 28/Sep/2007, @10:49

Akademy 2008 to be Held in Belgium
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   The annual KDE World Summit, Akademy, has found a home for 2008
[http://akademy2008.kde.org] in the heart of Europe, Belgium. The event
is the most important conference for the contributors of the KDE project
and will be held from Saturday August 9th to Saturday 16th at the De
Nayer Institute [http://www.denayer.wenk.be/index_eng.htm], an
associated campus of the University of Leuven. There are three
sub-events: a contributors conference, the KDE e.V. annual general
assembly and a week long hacking session.   Akademy offers a great
opportunity to the community to discuss all issues face-to-face. We also
look forward to the chance to mingle with all KDE enthusiasts who want
to drop by.
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     The conference will be organised by a local team assembled by Bart
Cerneels and Wendy Van Craen, whose proposal to host Akademy at
Sint-Katelijne-Waver's De Nayer Institute was chosen by the KDE e.V.
membership. Sint-Katelijne-Waver is located near the city of Mechelen,
and is close to both Brussels and Antwerp.

     The Institute is itself a user of KDE.  Patrick Pelgrims,
coordinator of the Bachelor in Electronics/ICT curriculum said "We will
be happy to receive the KDE community at our campus. They are the
creators of the amazing software platform we use to educate many young
people in the world of Electronics, Computer Engineering and Embedded
Linux."

     KDE e.V. would like to thank those who submitted the other
proposals for hosting Akademy 2008 and we hope they will have a chance
to host another KDE meeting soon.

     The preliminary schedule for Akademy 2008 is as follows:
   Days Activity  Friday 8 August 2008  Arrivals   Saturday 9  KDE
Contributors Conference   Sunday 10 Monday 11  KDE e.V. General Assembly
  Coding Marathon   Tuesday 12  BoF Sessions, Tutorials, Workshops  
Wednesday 13  Thursday 14  Friday 15  Saturday 16
     You will be pleased to know that this year we have corrected the
capitalisation of the name Akademy.

     A formal call for papers will be put up in due time, but you may
wish to start thinking of talk subjects to write up for the contributors
conference part of Akademy. For the hacking and BoF sessions, try to
figure out who you need some quality face-to-face time with and convince
them to come too!

     We are looking out for people to help with organising Akademy, if
you live in the local area or if you have good business relations and
conference hosting skills please do get in touch with
akademy-team at kde.org.