Akademy 2008 Conference Program

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Saturday, 9 August 2008
Time	Room 1	Room 2
9:00 - 9:15	Opening
9:15 - 9:45	Keynote KDE Community websites: The past, the present and a vision for the future Frank Karlitschek (KDE)
9:45 - 10:00	Coffee Break
	Community	Platform
10:00 - 10:30	KDE in Education - The tale of a large scale deployment in Brazil Mauricio Piacentini and Milton Cesar de Souza Leite	Oxygen Riccardo Iaconelli
10:30 - 11:00	KDE And Asia - The Divide : Technical or/and Cultural Pradeepto K. Bhattacharya	Coming to every linux desktop: Next-generation printing dialogs Peter Sikking
11:00 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 11:45	Making the world a better place -- building a cross-desktop platform Vincent Untz	Akonadi Unleashed Till Adam and Volker Krause
11:45 - 12:15	Future of the KDE Development Model Sebastian Kügler and Dirk Müller	Kleopatra 2.0 - The Universal Certificate Manager and Crypto GUI Marc Mutz
12:15 - 13:45	Lunch
13:45 - 14:30	Keynote Deepening KDE and Qt collaboration Sebastian Nyström (Nokia)
14:30 - 15:00	Looking Back and Moving Forward: The past, present, and future of the KDE Usability Project Celeste Lyn Paul	Programming for embedded Linux Harald Fernengel
15:00 - 15:30	Standardising accessibility ─ a game changer for Free Software? Olaf Schmidt	Qt on Maemo Kate Alhola
15:30 - 15:55	Waffle Break
15:55 - 16:25	The KDE e.V. - Foundation for the Community Cornelius Schumacher	openSUSE 11: Switching a Distribution to KDE4 Stephan Binner
16:25 - 16:55	How to rock the show with KDE Lydia Pintscher	Distributing KDE: Fedora 9 Rex Dieter
16:55 - 17:00	Break
17:00 - 18:00	Plasma Frenzy Moderator: Aaron Seigo

Sunday, 10 August 2008
Time	Room 1	Room 2
	Applications	Libraries
9:30 - 10:00	KMyMoney - the BEST Personal Finance Manager for Linux Users Thomas Baumgart	Generic Component Framework - A Qt based component framework Prashanth Udupa
10:00 - 10:30	digiKam Gilles Caulier	Integration is the Best Feature Inge Wallin
10:30 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15	Amarok 2 - Embracing the Future of Music Mark Kretschmann	Location-aware applications with GeoClue Henri Bergius Slides
11:15 - 11:45	Step: interactive physical simulator for KDE Vladimir Kuznetsov	libsixdof and the desktop Ben Martin
11:45 - 12:15	Marble Patrick Spendrin	Transcript Park Shinjo
12:15 - 13:45	Lunch
13:45 - 14:30	Keynote Digital Audio to Reduce Illiteracy, Poverty and Disease Cliff Schmidt (Literacy Bridge)
	Research
14:30 - 15:00	R&D: Getting Hackers Laid Paul Adams	QtWebKit Simon Hausmann
15:00 - 15:30	How free/open source development leaves a trail to research Karl Beecher	How Graphics View Works Andreas Aardal Hanssen Slides
15:30 - 15:45	Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:15	The Semantic Desktop – KDE Style Laura Josan	OpenDocument support in KWord 2 Girish Ramakrishnan
16:15 - 16:45	Connecting Plasma to service-oriented programming with JOLIE Fabrizio Montesi	Gallium3D - Graphics Done Right Zack Rusin
16:45 - 17:00	Break
17:00 - 17:45	Akonadi Rumble Moderator: Till Adam
17:45 - 18:00	Akademy Award Ceremony
18:00 - 18:05	Closing