After mid-term: Akademy

[Detlev Casanova]

I'll be there !! :-)

Detlev Casanova.
On Tuesday 15 July 2008 16:58:32 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Hello students (past and present)
>
> Now that the mid-terms are over and you're all working, but before we tell
> you the results of the mentor surveys, I'd like to talk about a much more
> interesting subject: Akademy 2008.
>
> I am not sure we approached this subject before, but you all as KDE
> contributors are invited to the yearly KDE contributors conference in
> Europe, Akademy. It will take place in Belgium in less than a month. For
> more information on the event itself, please go to
> http://akademy2008.kde.org.
>
> Like I said, you are all invited, regardless of the mid-term results. It's
> a great opportunity to meet your mentor face-to-face and discuss the
> final touches to your code with him/her. It's also very nice to meet
> other KDE developers as well as other students, to get their impressions
> of Summer of Code, of KDE development in general and, why not, the (bad)
> publicity KDE is getting. Oh, and to have a beer with them.
>
> For us, you spending a week or half a week in Akademy is more important
> than finishing the code. The reason is simple: you are far more valuable
> to us as a long-term contributor than the code you're producing just now.
> And if coming to Akademy helps you feel like you belong, thus making you
> want to stay, then we definitely want you there. All mentors know about
> this and will not "take marks off" because you spent some time in Belgium
> with us.
>
> I know it's kind of late to start planning for a trip, but give it a try.
> The KDE e.V. Board of Directors (kde-ev-board at kde.org) and the Akademy
> organisation team can help with any bureaucratic issue you may face. They
> may even be able to help financially, if necessary, but this is something
> you have to discuss with them directly.
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