Akademy/Awards

Each year the KDE Community awards contributors the Akademy Awards, who have made a special contribution recently. The judges for the awards are the winners from the previous year.

There are 3 awards:

Best application
Best non-application contribution
Jury award

2024

Best Application: Friedrich W. H. Kossebau, for Okteta and his many years of contributions to KDE
Best Non-Application: Nicolas Fella, for his work on KDE Frameworks and Plasma
Jury's Awards: Albert Astals Cid, for his work on the KDE Qt patch collection, KDE gears release maintainership, i18n and simply sticking to the project for so many years as an active contributor

2023

Best Application: Milian Wolff and the Heaptrack Team, for their work on Heaptrack
Best Non-Application: Hannah Von Reth, for her work on KDE's Craft system
Jury's Awards: Johnny Jazeix, for their work organizing and supporting Season of KDE and GSoC

2022

Best Application: Jasem Mutlaq, for their work on KStars
Best Non-Application: Harald Sitter, for their work on frameworks, DrKonqi, KDE Neon, and KDE infrastructure
Jury's Awards: Aniqa Khokhar & the Networks Program Team, for their contributions to the KDE Networks Program

2021

Best Application: Alexander Semke, for their work on LabPlot
Best Non-Application: Paul Brown, for their contributions to KDE Promo
Jury's Awards: Adriaan de Groot, for their long term contributions to KDE

2020

Best Application: Bhushan Shah for creating an entirely new platform for our applications: Plasma Mobile
Best Non-Application: Carl Schwan for their work on KDE's web presence
Jury's Award: Luigi Toscano for their many years of contributions to KDE's localization efforts and infrastructure

2019

Best Application: Marco Martin for work on the Kirigami framework
Best Non-Application: Nate Graham for persistent work on the "KDE Usability & Productivity" blog
Jury's Awards: Volker Krause for long term contributions to KDE including; KNode, KDE PIM, KDE Itinerary and the UserFeedback framework

2018

Best Application: Aditya Mehra for work on the Mycroft integration providing KDE with a free speech assistant which is free as in freedom
Best Non-Application: Valorie Zimmerman for work driving KDE's mentoring programs and the Community Working Group, and being one of KDE's good souls
Jury's Awards:
- Sebastian Kügler for many years of relentless hacking and more (Plasma, KDE Marketing, years in the KDE e.V. Board)
- David Edmundson for work on Telepathy, porting applications to Frameworks 5, Plasma, KWin, KWayland, and being the crazy guy around
- Mario Fux for supporting KDE over many years through organizing the Randa meetings

2017

Best Application: Kai Uwe Broulik for his valuable work on Plasma
Best Non-Application: Cornelius Schumacher for his long term contributions to KDE
Jury's Award: Martin Konold & Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer for their work on the KDE Free Qt Foundation

2016

Best Application: Dominik Haumann and Christoph Cullmann for their work making Kate and the related parts
Best Non-Application: Aleix Pol for his work not just on KDE code but also on the community with KDE e.V. as a board member and KDE España
Jury's Award: Daniel Vrátil and the KDE PIMsters for creating and maintaining the largest suite of communication applications in the world

2015

Best Application: Milian Wolff and the KDevelop team for their work on KDevelop
Best Non-Application: Jens Reuterberg & the Visual Design Group for The Breeze interface design
Jury's Award: Albert Vaca for the KDE Connect application.
Jury's Award: Scarlett Clark for her work advancing the continuous integration infrastructure to more platforms and modules

2014

Best Application: Jean-Baptiste Mardelle for his work on Kdenlive
Best Non-Application: Michael Pyne for eleven years of kdesrc-build
Jury's Award: Ben Cooksley for planning out our systems and keeping them running smoothly

2013

Best Application: Eike Hein for his work on Konversation
Best Non-Application: Vishesh Handa for taking over the Nepomuk maintainer hat and rocking at stabilizing the beast
Jury's Award: Timothee Giet for shaping the future and community of Krita
Jury's Award: Kenny Duffus for being the memory and soul of Akademy

2012

Best Application: Camilla Boemann for her work on Calligra Words
Best Non-Application: Lydia Pintscher for her huge work within KDE and especially on the GSOC/SOK-project
Jury's Award: Kévin Ottens and Nicolás Alvarez for working on the future of KDE (Frameworks 5 & Git conversion)

2011

Best Application: Martin Gräßlin for his work on KWin
Best Non-Application: Dario Andres for his work with the bug triaging team
Jury's Award: Tom Albers in building up the KDE sysadmin team, while continuing to do much work himself

2010

Best Application: Aurélien Gâteau for his work on Gwenview
Best Non-Application: Anne Wilson for her work in user support
Jury's Award: Burkhard Lück for his work on improving the state of KDE documentation

2009

Best Application: Peter Penz for his work on Dolphin
Best Non-Application: Celeste Lyn Paul for work in the usability team
Jury's Award: David Faure for greatest service to KDE

2008

Best Application: Mark Kretschmann and the Amarok team
Best Non-Application: Nuno Pinheiro and the Oxygen team
Jury's Award: Aaron Seigo for his work on Plasma

2007

Best Application: Sebastian Trueg for K3B
Best Non-Application: Matthias Kretz for his great work on Phonon
Jury's Award: Danny Allen for the Commit Digest

2006

Best Application: Boudewijn Rempt for Krita
Best Non-Application: Alexander Neundorf for his work on CMake in KDE4
Jury's Award: Laurent Montel for KDE4 Commit Champion

2005

Best Application: Albert Astals Cid and Enrico Ros for their work on KPDF
Best Non-Application: Lauri Watts for KDE documentation coordination
Jury's Award: Stephan Kulow and Oswald Buddenhagen for the effort they have put into the Subversion migration