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

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