 Those of you who are sponsors then have to give a learning talk. If you can move here, I would appreciate it very much, but well, first of all, to introduce it a little bit, having sponsors for academies is very important. It's what makes it possible for us to be here, like it or not, it's very expensive to bring people together from all over the world and we couldn't, we wouldn't be able to do it without all of those lovely sponsors. And wow, I mean, look at them, how pretty they all look over there. First of all, let's start with our first Gold Sponsor Shells video in. We don't have audio, we should be having audio from the video, I think. Over 25 operating systems. Can we maybe play it from the start? This means you can connect to your shell from your phone. Hi, my name is Jason and I'm the CEO of Shells, a cloud-based device as a service, or wise known as a DAS. The DAS is a service which allows you to connect to your virtual devices from anywhere in the world that has an internet connection and the browser. This means you can connect to your shell, which can have a choice of over 25 operating systems. This means you can connect to your shell from your phone, your desktop, your laptop, your smart TV, your car infotainment system and even devices such as a smart fridge. We offer over 25 operating system choices, including many different versions of Linux, like Ubuntu and Manjaro to privacy-centric tales. We also offer Windows and Android for those who prefer it. We partner with several Linux development teams, some of which maintain their own shell image, meaning it comes directly from the source. This also means that shouldn't issue a rise, we can raise it directly to the development team. Our applications are open source and available and I'll get help for people to read, compile or improve should they wish, as we have a strong involvement and bias for the FOSS community. This year's we've launched several programs as well as made significant improvements to our data centers and infrastructure. Similar programs launched include Shells and Schools, which gives students access to Shells at school and home, ensuring fast access to information and educational software. We also launched Shells for journalists, which allows for free privacy-centric operating systems like tales to be used in alignment and best practices to ensure privacy and security to those who need it, whilst reporting sometimes in conflict zones. As we move into 2023, we have a host of projects and plans for building a better customer experience, infrastructure, network and future for all. Thank you for listening. Thank you Shells and now the video from KDAB. Hi, I'm Jesper Pedersen from KDAB. I'm sorry to not be there with you this week, which I had looked much forward to, but sometimes life happens. KDAB and KDE go way back together. When Matisse Etrich sent out his email about anybody want to join me on this quest of developing a desktop environment for Linux, one of the first people was actually the founder of KDAB, to reply to him. And Matthias Kelle del Heimer had quite a bit of code in the very first version of KDE out there. I myself also had quite a bit of code in there. Well, that might be an exaggeration. I had some code in there, namely my cave regular expression, it is her, which I hear is not in there anymore. Anyway, as I said, I would have loved to be there this week and I plan to be there. But unfortunately, we had our yearly company meeting last week. And unfortunately, quite a few people got sick from COVID-19. Personally, I'm still at one bar still. I don't feel sick. So I likely ain't sick. But I didn't want to risk any of your your well being in coming down there after being around quite a few sick people. So first of all, I urge you all to take good care of each other. I got three minutes and half of my time has already passed. I guess I don't need to explain to you who KDAB is. But if you don't know at all, we're a cute consultant company. We are a sponsor of KDE. We have sponsored quite a bit of work in tools like gamma ray and hotspot. And if you don't know those, go and look them up right away. We also have quite a few videos online on cute and QML in on YouTube, you might be able to see my face quite a bit. And what I'm going to tell you about today in my last minute is that we are actually hiring. So if you're looking for a job involving QT, QML, cute widgets, anything around cute, we might be a good place for you to work. And if you are asking yourself, why should I come and work with KDAB? Well, let me just give you a few bullet points here. So you want to work on cute, but you also want to continue working on KDE. And I very much encourage you to do that. Well, in KDAB, we don't have that much KDE work, but we do have a good work life balance. So you have a chance to work on KDE in your spare time. You're not going to end up with 60 hours work week. You're going to get a 40 hour work week and nothing more. You want to continue grow as a developer. We can definitely help you with that. You want to work from where you actually live. Don't want to move somewhere else. And we do have remote work opportunities in KDAB. And finally, you want to make a difference in the world. We work on many very interesting projects involving especially medical. So do send me an email to careers at KDAB.com. Do take care of yourself and each other at Academy this year. And I wish you all a great conference. Yeah. Thanks very much, Jesper. And we all missed all of these people from KDAB that are very close to our community. And now Adam is going to tell us about his other hat, I believe. Okay. So again, hi. Nice to meet you. I'm Adam from Canonical. I'm a product manager for desktop experience. You might know Canonical for these things. Ubuntu in particular might be something you know about, but Canonical does a lot of different things as well. Here's a screenshot of the website. Take a look. Maybe your business needs some of these things. Contact us. What does Ubuntu have to do with KDE? Well, for example, you might know Ubuntu with an official flavor, which uses KDE technology. There's an update to 2210 coming soon, which will be using Plasma 526, I believe. The current Ubuntu base is on 2204, which is an LTE release of Ubuntu. You might also know the KDE Neon project, which is using the LTE's releases of Ubuntu as a base for that technology. You might also know Canonical's product called Snapcraft, which is their app store for Linux. Currently, 106 KDE apps are available. The most popular have tens of thousands of active users. Aleš actually, during his goals presentation for all about the apps, gave you even more stats about how Snap is important to KDE. We have a booth or a table, as it were, here. If you want to talk to us, I'm here. Mauro is here as well, and Omar, I think, also is available. You can talk to us about all stuff. Ubuntu, Canonical, and KDE. There's some swag for you there as well. Thank you very much. See you at the table and talk to us everywhere. Thank you, Adam. Vision, round of applause. Let me get this light deck, but you can say hi first. Hello. Hello. Great. Welcome. Hi. I'm Victoria, TD Fisher on IRC. I was involved in KDE about 10 years ago. I'm back. Hello. And these are my colleagues from Ambition. We've got... Hi, you probably know me. I like it. You've seen me today. So, we are Ambition. We are doing automotive things in entertainment. We were found in 2017. There's more than 750 digital talents in two hubs. There's one in Berlin and one in Sofia, Bulgaria, and there's more than 40 nations working at Ambition. So what we're doing, the mobility world is changing and cars are pretty much computers on wheels. There's all of these things, connected cars, updateability and all of those things that are coming. So, FOS is a big part of our success story. So, we're working hand in hand with all of these different partners and different FOS communities. And, of course, we love KDE because our tech stack is very similar to what you are all doing. So, actually, we just contributed our 50th contribution to KDE. And I guess I wanted to add more on that. Yeah. Thank you. But this round of applause actually also goes to you. So, we at Ambition, we know that open source is not a one-way street. And, of course, we love a good street and connecting people across distances. So, 50 patches in all so represents a lot of your efforts, your help in reviewing the code and improving our contributions. You donated that time to us very generously. We are very appreciative. We hope that you will continue to do so because we will keep showing up with more patches. Thank you. Yeah. I guess we have another minute and 30 seconds or so. So, yeah, come work at Ambition. We're a bunch of cool people. We are three out of 750 or so, as Kai said. The funny thing is, Harald gave a cool talk earlier about taking a break from KDE. I did exactly that. And then Aika came to me last year at Academy and said, hey, would you like to get back in? So, here we are. So, we're doing really cool stuff with KDE, a lot of stuff with Qt. Our latest biggest project we're proud of is, I'm sure people know that Quinn is an amazing Wayland compositor, can render thousands of frames per second. But now, it can render thousands of frames a second at thousands of kilometers per hour in a car. Because we're putting it into a car. It's great. So, if you want to work on that, if you want to work on Qt stuff, if you want to work on multimedia, graphics, and the next generation of in-car infotainment systems, drop us a line. Check us out at Ambition.io slash jobs, I think. And if that year rolls wrong, you can find it yourself on Google. So, thank you. Yeah, thank you. Ambition. Keep company. Hello again. I'm still Volker. You have seen a lot of slides from yesterday, so I'm not going to present you with more than that. Earlier, I was asked how we are doing in the Qt company. And I think that's something worth talking a bit about. We have now been an independent company for about five years and doing pretty well. And it's a lot of fun to work in a company that is doing two things. One of them, first of all, building open source technology for me as a software engineer. It's very satisfying to work full time on an open source project, contribute that back, make it possible for communities like you to use our technology to do fantastic things, while at the same time also, of course, making a living from that. So doing that kind of thing full time is really great. And we have today 150 people or so in our R&D organization in the Qt company doing that kind of thing. Of course, software engineering or rather library development is not everybody's cup of tea, let's be honest. It's a bit of a special thing to do, but it's a if you find this kind of thing interesting, then we are also hiring both in our Oslo site where I am, for instance, we have teams in Berlin, where we are doing very exciting things with QML where we're doing exciting things with the web engine or the build system. Also different platforms we want to support that is happening in Berlin. We have a team in North and Finland, if you like the midnight sun and sauna, that might be something for you to look into. So yes, we are a traditional, perhaps maybe even a little bit outdated company in respect of the time that we spend together in the office. That is again, not everybody's cup of tea, but if you are at that point in your career, where maybe you want to look at somewhere else to move to, then that is something we would very much like to welcome you. Yeah, so like I mentioned, we have been now an independent company for five years. After quite an interesting ride, I think you might know a lot about that already. So I'm not going to repeat that, but being now a company that is independent, profitable and able to grow and steer our own way has also in the last couple of months, of course, enabled us to make decisions that allow us to work again, more on things that you are finding interesting, hopefully, like the desktop, like mobile, like platforms, working with the community. You saw that we now with with Pedro have a community manager. So I hope that we will see much more of each other in the future. And I'm looking forward to working with you. I have personally very much enjoyed the Academy event, my first event. It was lots of fun, lots of interesting conversations, lots of interesting talks. So thanks for that. And thanks for welcoming me and my colleagues from the Q company. Bye bye. Thank you, Volker. Neil, coming up. Fedora time. So hello, y'all. Unlike, you know, some of the other people here, like I think I've probably bored y'all with slides earlier today. So I don't, you just get to see the lovely new fangled Fedora logo that we launched. I think it was last year. Yeah, I think it's last year. Man, that took a couple of years to figure out. I'm very happy to have this because now I get new t shirts, new fanciness, lots of swag. It's very cool. This is my first time actually being at an academy in person. I've been to academies a couple of the couple of times with the virtual ones. It's been super awesome to meet all of y'all and like actually have a stronger connection with the KD community. It's been great to put faces to names and be able to have, you know, much more high band with conversations and really kind of convey how much I love working with y'all in KD development and supporting it in Fedora. And it's been very empowering and very enriching for us to be able to support KD technologies within our platform. That's why we have the Fedora KD spin and we launched Kinoite last year. And I'm crossing my fingers for Fedora mobile edition that we may have with Plasma Mobile next year. So we're going to do our best to provide what we can and make an amazing experience for people to use and contribute to. If y'all are interested in helping us make a better KD experience for on the Fedora platform, feel free to come by to our SIG, check out our booth table thing that's outside and talk to me or Timothy, who, you know, we're the Fedora folks that came here. And with all that, I don't really have a whole lot of other words left. So thank you very much Fedora. Will you come up? So we're from Collabora. We're a consulting company. We work in embedded boards. We put distros together. We go, we do a lot of work on multimedia, which is streamer and also graphics, Vulkan, DRM, Mesa, all of that. But basically we are an engineer company. And it's all about open source. I am proud to say I'm the project manager who will check new sales opportunities and say, if there's nothing in open source interesting for us, then that we're not going to sell it. So that's something that I really like about it. And also working in the open, whenever we can, we try to do it in a polygroup of story and just push it out. So since we are basically all developers, I wanted them to just talk about what they like about working here. Hey everyone, maybe you know me. I'm one of the engineers at Collabora. One of the things that strikes me the most is the flexibility to actually work on various open source projects and not only to work but to actually contribute back. As I mentioned, yesterday I actually have contributed a couple patches to KD, which kind of makes me feel bad here. But it's better than zero, I would imagine. And it's a way forward. So that's how it starts, right? But apart from that, personally I have worked with Collabora on more than 1,000 different open source projects to various degrees. So that's the piece that actually strikes me the most and I enjoyed the most. I'm Jeremy. I used to be a KD contributor years ago. This is my second Academy. My first one was 12 years ago. Yeah, I know. I disappeared for a bit. What I wanted to say about Collabora is that I like that the slogan or motto or whatever is open first. We definitely pursue open source contracts the most. And then the other thing is community time. Every week, every engineer gets at least two hours a week to work on whatever open source project they want to. And that's been a boon to the communities, all communities, not just KD, all open source communities. And I appreciate that myself. So yeah, all in all, what I like the most is we make cool stuff happen. And yeah, like SteamOS and Steam Deck this year. I mean, it's a project I've been working on for three years and even more. And I'm very proud of it and how it's coming up. So it's just I like working here. Thank you very much for Collabora. All right. Hello, everyone. My name is George. This is Stathis, my colleague. We are actually students from the University of Macedonia. And we are open source members of the community. And we're going to introduce you with a brief description of our team in the university open source team. First of all, let me introduce Stathis who I organized the open source community in Greece. He acquired a good amount of knowledge in order to create an open source team. He also hosted the GUADEC 2019 in the University of Macedonia in an effort to promote the free software in the university. And then he created a volunteer organization. He formed a golden organization in order to strengthen this promotion of the free software through FOSCOM, the Parkelemic conference for open and free communities in Greece. And this is where me and Stathis met. And this is me, Stathis and Pares Bacalis, who created the open source team in order to strengthen more and more the effort for promotion of the free software in Greece. This is some of our events in Greece. As you can see here and here we're very happy, as you can see. Despite the fact that we were a brand programming team, the software development team, the university committee actually recommended us to create an open source app for the students in order to have a really easy access to their data because they were dispressed across the university website. And so we complied with the open source community's guidelines for software development. This is us in our office developing our app. This is me on these lines. This is me again. And this is us solving an error right there. And this is the app we produced since now. We produced this in one month from July to August of 2022. And they're using it now in the University of Macedonia. So we tend to utilize open source to introduce open source to the first year students and utilize it for other university students. We also, in order to do that, we create the script that installs all the applications for the learners in the following years for the students. And also these features will be included in ISO for an open source to be to them. We are pleased to have open source support us. And we have taken on the motto have a lot of fun. And thank you very much open source. This is us. Biking software, thank you very much. Thank you. So I didn't want to just show our logo. So hopefully there'll be some random images just trung along and we'll see if they actually do switch or no it doesn't. Then I'll just do some switching. So thank you for having us. When Alex reached out to us some time ago and asked if we wanted to join this list of sponsors. I thought, hmm, I need a reason. The first one sponsor Katie. Fairly good reason. There are a lot of people here who don't know me or because you're too young, I guess I was actually active in Katie from 1997 to 2004. If you find really old change logs and you can see my name all over K mail and stuff like that. And I've actually been to a lot of Katie at these academies. Well, too, is that a lot? This is number three to us a lot. So the first one was in 2004. I immediately I came there and then I quit my job at KDAP and then I left. And the second one was in what 10, 9 years ago in Bilbao. I left. I met our first developer at the first one we ever hired at Viking software. So when I thought about this, I thought, OK, maybe I can do it again. Maybe I can find the next Viking here. So reason number two, that was all I needed. I told my wife who's sitting on the money in Viking software. We have to sponsor this. So here we are. And no, how do you become a Viking? Oh, sorry. So a thousand years ago, you'd grab an axe, sail to England. Don't do that anymore. It's frowned upon. Boring people out there. So instead, you have to do five things. First of all, you have to be good at remote work. I have a theory that is something that all of you have done. Otherwise, you probably wouldn't sit in this room. The other thing is you have to be a good cute developer. And it's actually surprisingly hard to be in an open source environment and community without being a fairly good developer. So I would assume you are. I have also assumed that you actually know a bit about QT. Maybe. Third one, probably need a degree. Master's degree in computer science, I hope. Bachelor maybe. There are a few that doesn't in the company or something related. But it really helps when someone asks Viking software to come in and help on their code. Then we send experts and they assume they'll get an expert on their job because, well, I didn't tell you what Viking software do. We send people out to help customers with code. That's not important. You come here for the work. But then you actually need to be sort of an expert. And that's not that easy. The fourth one is you have to work without micromanagement. You have to be able to work on your own. And I think that's also something that happens a lot here at Viking software, here at KD. And fifth one, you have to be nice because I don't want to work with someone who's not nice because why would I? That's hard. All these five reasons, maybe 1% of developers in the world. But I think in this room, it's a lot higher than 1%. And that's why I'm here. So now there are. Ah, funny pictures. Thank you. And thank you Vikings. Next, we have Slimbo who couldn't be there, but they asked me to remind you that there's a discount on the laptops with KD software on. So keep that in mind if you're thinking of new hardware. But next, Tomas is going to tell us about code thing this year. Hi. So I am code thing this year. I was another company a few years ago, a few months ago. I feel sometimes I go. And code thing deals with many, many things, including automotive, including also free desktop SDK, flat packs. And I'm sorry, I'm really tired. So we are hiring and I don't know what else to say. Say that you love it. Yeah. Thank you Tomas. Thank you code thing for sponsoring us. As well as Slimbo, they couldn't be here, but also, well, say hi to Academy. And next, GitLab, we have a video here. Video in. Greetings, KDE community. And thanks for this opportunity to speak with you at KDE Academy. I'm Brian Behrenshausen, senior open source program manager at GitLab. And I want to take this opportunity to congratulate you all on hosting a great community conference. GitLab is proud to call KDE an open source partner. Communities like yours are the backbone of the open source ecosystem and we're delighted to be able to support the great work that you're doing. If you'd like to learn more about the ways that GitLab can help open source communities grow and thrive, go to this URL here about.gitlab.com slash open source. Thanks again for letting GitLab be a part of your conference. And again, thanks for all of your hard work. Enjoy the rest of the show. Thank you, GitLab. Next time, they didn't want to come here, but they are around. Be sure to talk to them and ask all of the questions that you wanted to ask them. And thanks to all of the sponsors who cared for Academy, wanted to be here and participated by being sponsors. Thank you very much. It's very important for us.