 Okay, well, we have some. Let's go ahead and get started. This is the final buff wrap up for Academy 2021. This morning in the first session of the day, we had a handful of buffs and sessions that the three of you were a part of. Some and others were part of more. Yay, I see David Edmondson's joining. So that's great. I'd also like to ask Alish to come back because he also hosted a buff today. Getting into it. Alish, you hosted the kitty goals over the apps automation. Would you like to speak to it? Tell us how it went. Yeah, sorry about that. That was our first buff in the morning, where we talked with Cisadmin. So we had been doing buffs all over the week about different app topics, mostly based around the platform. And well, one of the most common things was it would be great to automate X or Y. And actually, most of the times it was all the same thing. So we thought let's have a discussion with the Cisadmin team who did join and discuss those different topics. It ended up orbiting around how amazing our life is going to be when we embrace GitLab, CI. They are working on it. So they kind of said, please wait a little bit and be patient. It's going to be amazing. And then we went through the different levels of amazingness. You can see more specific notes. If you look at the kitty is all about the app's goal chat, they're not super more specific. The Cisadmin team, I think I would like to think at least that they promise that they will provide a bit more of documentation on what is the status of things and how to help them better, but what it seems like they have it under control. Well, good luck to them. And to all of us, it's going to be amazing. Sorry, I couldn't find my unmute button first. Thank you, Alice. How did your distribution box go? Right. So it fairly naturally flowed on from the one previous, so it was, yeah, splitting the two was kind of fun. But basically, the idea there also was to try and streamline the way we get stuff actually to end users in a way that puts the least amount of pressure on people effectively. In other words, automation for the distribution side of our software production efforts. And we came up with a sort of procedure that we think might work which would then be tied into how GitLab works so that we can kind of use that as an excess so that we have a straightforward, consistent process where the release effort from the point of view of someone maintaining an app who doesn't necessarily know how to get their software built for 15 different operating systems and all of that sort of stuff and get it on stores and so on, and make that as straightforward and sort of effortless as possible while still remaining safe. So there's a couple of things that we can't automate because there needs to be a manual intervention step, but there are a lot of things that can be and which are almost there and which then kind of just need the dots connecting. Obviously, there is no such thing as easy, but yeah, we've got a way forward there and it looks really neat. And of course, the details are all in the KDE All About the Apps Matrix group as well. Thank you. Let's go over to Kenny, Kenny is the slay, for the KDE Fundraising Working Group. Thanks Alison. So we mainly focused on two core themes. One of the core themes was the KDE 25th Anniversary that's coming up and the opportunities that's going to give us in regard to our fundraising efforts, so lots of exciting things going on there. The other theme which was kind of, we managed to relate the two was the ongoing efforts towards trying to get our CIVI CRM instance to do what we need it to to be effective for the community and what we're doing with fundraising. I think most of us, I think all of us in the BOF agree that CIVI CRM as it currently stands doesn't really do what it needs, doesn't really do what we need it to. And so we're going to start actively looking at alternatives, not to replace it as a whole. I mean, it's still doing things like CEPA payments fairly well, but to look at things like paypal immigration and try to find something that fits some of those requirements, start experimenting a little bit, and hopefully try to build something new for the 25th anniversary. We've currently got a requirements document that's getting put together just now by Carol. If anyone wants to get involved in that effort, you're more than free to join, you can get in touch via the mailing list. We're also going to be opening up a new set of matrix literacy channels that people can join. We're really hoping that by changing our tooling and changing the technology, we can try and get a bit more energy into the community and use that as a driver for improving our fundraising efforts. All right. Thank you. Okay, next up, Plasma and Promo meeting, Mr. David R. David R. Want to take it away? Tell us how it went. It went great. We first, the Promo people explained to us what they want, their goals with the Plasma announcements and the general strategy for reaching more the public in general. And then we talked about how we as Plasma developers can help them make their process easier and help them make better Plasma announcements. And we also decided that the next release in October will be called the Plasma Anniversary Edition and will release on the 25th anniversary of Plasma, of KDE. Well, let's go on. There was a Plasma bug triage. Ooh, very nice hack, David. Would you like to take it away and tell us how it went? Yeah, so in previous years, nobody really liked doing bugs. So if you lock everybody in a physical room, it generally helps. Here we had a virtual equivalent and the idea was to go through and we went through all of the lists of bugs that were tracked as very high priority and went through which forms actually were. And going through it as a group, making sure everyone in the core Plasma team had an awareness of what big things that we needed to focus on and getting lots of ideas on some of the same bugs. And it actually resulted in several of these very high bugs getting immediate fixes that day. But there's still lots of bugs left and you should all be helping. Well, you heard it here. Go help with bugs. All right, well, the final boss for today is the Qt4Python. It was a follow-up on a previous boss and Anupram's talk that we heard last weekend. It is very late at night and I have to read out the updates for this. So let's do it. On public demand, there was another hosted session for Qt4Python. Like the earlier one, this was a live coding session meant to be like a workshop for the topic. Today, this discussed about passing arguments of type lists, passing lists of custom Python data objects and parsing the data on the QML side, the QML list view and its population from custom Python data objects. And finally, properties, notifiable properties. That is the Qt4Python update. It was really exciting to see there was so much demand for it, at least on my side of things, because it was great as Anupram was a new speaker at Academy this year. And I think we were all very welcoming. And overall, I hope that everyone had a great experience, especially the new speakers we had this year, the returning speakers we had this year and our attendees. Okie doke. Well, I want to say thank you very much for a great week to all of our boss folks, to all of our speakers and to all of our attendees. We've done it without you and let's hope that next year we get to see each other in person, wherever in the world it is. If we don't see you, if you can't make it to 2020, I thought of me, we hope to see you in some form at the 25th anniversary coming up in October. Please keep a lookout for more information on it. And we are planning like crazy. So if we reach out and ask you for some help, please consider helping and being a part of the plans. It's very important. It's a huge milestone. And let's all show how much we love and appreciate KDE. Thank you very much. I will leave this now to Adam or Luigi, whoever would like to come on up. Or both of you. I will take my leave and thank you so much for such a great week as well. Your session share skills are far beyond what mine could ever be. Absolutely. But anyways, take it away and let's find out who got the awards this year. Thank you. So thank everyone. I'm here to introduce you to the winners of the Academy 2021 Community Awards or just Academy Awards. For people who don't know about them, this is an award from the community to the community. It's been around since 2005 and it was lucky enough to follow the first instance of the Academy Awards back then in my first Academy. What happens is that the recipients of the award becomes the jury next year, which means that there should be three persons here, but due to time zone issues and other logistical issues, I'm the only one. So I will also cover for Bouchonsha and for Karl Schwann. But you will see them in a minute because they are here also. They have video to introduce their part of the award. And just, okay, finally I have the slides as well. So without just a technical annotation, we are going to introduce all the awards. And if you are one of the winners, please follow. If you know how to join this room, please join it. Otherwise, follow the trail. The chat moderator will show you the way to come here. I just need to show you the first video. So Bouchonsha will introduce the first award because we are all transparent here, ready to... Hello everyone. So this is about application category award. And I am happy to announce that we want to give this award to Alexander Samke for his work on lab plot. The lab plot is graphing application for the scientific data. And I believe it deserves this award for reaching out of our own small free and open source software bubble and creating more user base in the community where we don't know much about. So yeah, congratulations and thank you for your work on lab plot. Thank you. Thank you so for lab plot. And just to show you that this is all true. As soon as I stop sharing, I apologize. So yeah, the first award goes to lab plot, Alexander Samke. I don't think Alexander is around, but in case, please join us. The second award goes to Bouchonsha. The second one is presented by Karch Fan. And we will be there in a minute. I guess I cannot see the shot right now, but I guess the uploads are going. And let's go for the second award. Hello. I'm happy to announce that we are giving the non-application Academy Award to Paul Porn. Paul Porn has been working on the promo site of KDE for three years already. He has been on top of announcing our applications release, plasma release, and scenery apparatus reaching outside of open-source software bubble smart. Thanks, Paul, for your work. So thanks, Karch. And thanks, Paul. And I'm pretty sure you are around somewhere. So feel free to join us in a second. And let's go back to the slides for the third recipient. If I manage to... Okay, thanks again. For the third recipient, so the jury award, for the several years of service to the community as a developer, presenter, speaker, and board member, and for all with reminding us there is life in Classic Unix outside the Linux kernel, the Academy 2021 jury awards goes to Adrián de Gruyte. So congratulations for the long-term contribution. And yeah, and I'm sure you are, well, you are around. So I can see you here, coming. But before giving some voice to the winners, something they surely deserve together with a responsibility for the next year award, we always need to remember that the Academy doesn't... It's not created by itself. There are a lot of people who are working for months, even for a virtual one, which presents different kind of complexity than in present ones. So we don't really have the usual local team, but still we have a lot of people working. You can see us as a public faces, like, but I'm just a volunteer. There is a lot of work ongoing. So we have also the organization award going to the Academy team for their work on this Academy 2021. And I'm pretty sure everyone will agree that this went very, very, very well. So thanks for all the work in those months and all the behind-the-scenes work. Thanks. And now I really hope that someone will join me because I'm not... I don't know what else to say at this point. I can provide an history of all the past awards. No, no, no. We just really want to see, hear the voice, see the people if they are around and hear the voices. Things are happening. I see a lot of applause, claps, people exploding. I see the chat exploding with, wow, there is the... Loading chat. That's pretty good. Yeah. Hello, hey. Hello, Adrian. So who else want to join? I guess there is nothing more apart from the... I get to do the closing talk as well. Okay. But you can show yourself at this point, right? If you want. We have Paul and Alexander also joining. Oh, great. That's a great news. So all of them here. Thanks for showing them the way. This is all live. So no one knows the... Well, only like a limited number of people knows about the awards before the awards. So this is all live. Hello, hello. Hello. Yeah, my screen is over there and my webcam is over there. So that makes things a little difficult. Okay. But we will manage. Yeah. I was going to show off another very yellow t-shirt that I have, but now you've completely spoiled all my setup. I'm sorry for that. I appreciate it. Hello, Paul. Hello, Paul. Welcome. Hi. It's interesting because the moment... When you were saying it, I wasn't actually in the room. My son from the other room said, oh, congratulations. And I said, for what? Because I was telling Alexander. Alexander, congratulations. I went into the chat to tell him he had won. Because he didn't know either. And he was doing his own thing. So I would say, Alexander, come. You won an award. And you announced that I had won this award. So he didn't hear his and I didn't hear mine because I was telling you. Seems legit. Okay. We have Alexander who, as you said, already joined. Alexander, you just need to change the way you are connected from the speaker only to... or listener only to speaker also. You just need to click. The interface is a bit... That's the only a bit awkward thing of big blue button or the things that people notice most. I think it's also partly the surprise you get to say something to. All those viewers out there. Yeah. But he is doing that so we can see all life. Right. If we start planning for a physical academy in 2022 already, then we need to figure out where the three jury members should meet. I mean, Paul is in the south of Spain. So that's a nice place to head to. But maybe Alexander has an even nicer location to offer us. Hi, guys. Can you hear me? Yes. I just rejoined. So let me check whether I can manage to activate my camera. I'm here. Hi. Hello, everybody. Hello. So we are everyone. Yes, it's a bit surprising for me. You know, I was joining my... So the end of my very busy week and I started Paul. So this was again, I think a Spanish red wine. You know, I was joining my evening and then Paul is writing to me. Alexander, congratulations. And I was, what's going on here? So if you could give me a short summary of what has happened, you know, short background, short context, so I can put the news into the proper context would be great. So I didn't, sorry, I did manage to go through the recent news and recent communication. Yes. So this is an application award for the Academy, which is the community award we give every year from the community to the community. And we have three categories. So you won the one for the application award for the work on Labplot. Great. So thanks for all the work there. It's one of the small jewels that maybe people don't know too much about still want to share something. Now that's the time for the some speech. Yes, maybe. So let me, let me maybe spend some, some time talking about this. So yes, it's a jewel, you know, but, and not so many people know about this. Okay. But we are in the process of changing this. And I think so with the help of people like, you know, what I mentioned last time during my talk at Linux app summit. So there are many people behind this scenes contributing also to this. Okay. And people like Paul and people doing, you know, all the CI stuff and so on and so on, so there are many people contributing to the success of our people. Okay. So this is not only the work of the core developers, but of all these contributors, you know, this is the advantage of being part of such a community. Okay. It's not a result of a contribution of one or two persons. Okay. So there's a whole community behind this. So this award is not only going to us directly. Okay. So thank you, of course, for this, for this, for this decision. Okay. But it's not only us. Okay. So there's a whole community. So there are many people contributing to this directly indirectly. So there are many people responsible for this, for this success, so to say. Okay. So, but yes, of course, a very surprising result. Thank you all for this. Okay. Thanks a lot for this appreciation. So I hope, you know, we will be able to continue working on this, you know, to keep this high bar of whatever goals and desires we set for us for this application. So I think this is just the beginning for us. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Well said, Alexander. That's wonderful sentiment. It is the community that makes things possible. And I see, and I see Fabian, Fabian commenting here. They chat, you know, so maybe for people who don't know this, so Fabian, Fabian was one of our Jesus students two, three, four years ago. Then he next year, he was one of our students who went and he next year, he even mentored. So he stopped being a student. Okay. He was done with the university and then so next year he became already a mentor, KDE mentor. So he mentored another student. So now he disappeared for one, two years, but I hope he will be back, so Fabian, the accounting on you. So we need you, right? So you don't disappear again. So we need you again. Okay. Well, hopefully not. But, you know, with people coming and going, so I'm going and coming back. So that's, thank you. So Paul, let's go in order. It's your time. Well, I am like Alexander. I'm totally completely surprised. I mean, I didn't even know that I would be eligible. All I can say is a lot. I mean, I do really honestly love this community. Although, and they have been connected to the community. Well, I have been a user of KDE software since 1998 or something like that. When I got it on Mandriva and it was amazing then and still amazing now. And I've never stopped using it. And I've been to the academies in Canarias before being part of KDE proper, let's say. And in Malaga and I've been to the academy. Yes. And I have tons of friends here. And this is really, I mean, this is really important for me. I must say. And I appreciate it a lot. So very softly speech, but there you go. Thank you. Thank you. Really, really thank you for all of the work. Even more than there are no eligibility things. I mean, that went far and beyond what was needed. So thanks again. Oh, hey. So I'm a dinosaur. And I think I'm being recognized as a dinosaur here, I think I have in my hand a business card, a KDE business card from 2008, I think, when I was on the board and I'm on the board again. So I keep coming back or I keep orbiting KDE in all kinds of different ways. And yeah, still happy to be here. And thank you for the recognition. I believe that this is also just a trick really by you and the Academy organization to make sure that I'm around next year and actually do something, do one of the things that I promise to do, because that's suspect. That's interesting. No, we decided totally in a separate way. So I can assure you that. But so thanks again for all those years of service. And let's see that they are not the last ones. So they will continue again. So thanks again. And so someone from the organization team. So I'd like to leave the screen to them to, for them to say something so that they can live happily and make sure things are going to the conclusion today. Yeah, people are calling the chemist. So I suspect that the thing they're going to say is, and are to close the Academy. Here's aid. Well, but I'll leave that to them. Let's see if I see some movement. So something is happening. So maybe we will see someone. Yeah. Hello again, Allison. I mean, I'm really just here to say and he was aid, but this is a team effort. And I would love if at least the counties could come up here because they do most of the hard work. And the infrastructure that was built for this year to help bridge into hybrid events for future academies. The work that they did was phenomenal. I'm joining because you believe me, Allison. Hey, welcome. Hi. So thanks again. So do you want to have some bit of speech, which is just not, here is aid. Well, welcome everybody. It's good to see all of you. Well, I don't really see all of you because you're over there on my screen and the webcam is over there, but I'd really like to thank the people running the show. That is Kenny, Kenny, Allison, Ciss admin is sort of in the shadows, but they are keeping the things running. Even when it is Allison and Kenny and Kenny that you see upfront as fronting the organization. So once again, thank you for your efforts this year and every year. And I hope to see all of you organizing next year again. With my board hat on. You just saw Dave doing the ball wrap up with an excellent actual hat on. This is a virtual one. Board hat on. I'd like to say a special thanks to our sponsors, Ambition, KDAB, the cute company or cute group, GitLab and Fedora for helping us run this thing, making Academy possible. I'd like to thank our keynotes, Patricia Oz and Jerry Ellsworth for providing a very interesting side channel to the conference. Patricia's title was I can't work like this, but I hope she can work with us. We're just about to wrap up Academy for 2021. That's the end of this event is not the end of our KDE work and there's upcoming events as well. I'd like to remind everyone, Alice already mentioned it, the 20 and oh, and Kenny, Kenny Coyle also mentioned it for the fundraising. KDE turns 25 on October 14th. So on October 14th, we should all be ready to party. That will mean our party hats. And if you haven't had enough Academy type flavors, there's Academy ES, the Spanish Academy, which runs every year. And this year it is November 19th to 21st. So those are our upcoming KDE events, our anniversary and Academy ES. I'm personally looking forward also to seeing another conf KDE in once we can travel and a physical Academy 2022. Thank you all for watching. Thank you all for speaking and participating in the buffs. And we'll see you next year. Cheers.