Akademy/Handbook/Program committee

Goal

We want an interesting, inspiring and useful program for Akademy. The program committee is tasked with putting the program together.

Needs

• 5 people for the program committee
• program committee facilitator to move the process along and support the committee in putting together the schedule

Suggested Timeline (2024)

Announce Call for Participation: 6 months before Akademy (April)
Deadline for Submissions: 5 months before Akademy (May)
Deadline for Choosing lineup: 4 months before Akademy (June)
Announce Lineup: 3 Months before Akademy (July)

Talks Evaluation Criteria (2024)

Relevance to KDE

• Is this talk related to KDE work or something more generic/external?

Interest to KDE

• On internal projects, weigh "importance" to KDE, e.g. rating a talk regarding porting Frameworks to Qt6 higher than a random plasma widget.
• If an external topic is in question, is this something that our community would be interested in?

Speaker

• Are they known? Do they have interesting insights to share? Can they give a good talk?
• (To the best of our ability) Does our potential lineup reflect the diversity of the KDE community?

Topic

• If we have submissions on similar topics, there's an option to suggest a merge of talks (and we can ask submitters to work together on one or do a panel)
• If there are many submissions on the same topic, try to solicit talks on different topics or focus (i.e. if there's a lot of technical talks, solicit some related to organizing/planning/achievements).

Additional info

• Talk submissions are reviewed on our Indico instance https://conf.kde.org/
• If you (as a reviewer) suspect there are some submissions missing, ask a person with Indico admin access to look for talks with no assigned track.