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== [https://akademy.kde.org/news/2024-09_akademy-2024-report/ 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
== [https://dot.kde.org/2017/07/24/akademy-awards-2017 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
== [https://dot.kde.org/2016/09/04/akademy-awards-2016 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


== [https://dot.kde.org/2015/07/26/akademy-talks-day-2 2015] ==
== [https://dot.kde.org/2015/07/26/akademy-talks-day-2 2015] ==


* Best Application: '''Milian Wolff''' and the KDevlop team for their work on KDevelop
* 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
* 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: '''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
* Jury's Award: '''Scarlett Clark''' for her work advancing the continuous integration infrastructure to more platforms and modules


== [https://dot.kde.org/2014/09/08/akademy-award-winners-2014 2014] ==
== [https://dot.kde.org/2014/09/08/akademy-award-winners-2014 2014] ==
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* Best Non-Application: '''Lauri Watts''' for KDE documentation coordination
* 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
* Jury's Award: '''Stephan Kulow''' and '''Oswald Buddenhagen''' for the effort they have put into the Subversion migration
[[Category:Akademy]]

Latest revision as of 06:40, 24 September 2024

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