This year’s Akademy is over - at least for me. I’m already on a train on my way back home, but there’s still plenty of people staying in Graz for more days of hacking and fun. Even though I haven’t contributed to KDE much in the past few years, I am really glad I decided to go.

First, I want to thank everyone from the organization and local team for hosting us in Graz and orginzing a great Akademy. I know how much work it is, so kudos to all of you <3.

I’m really happy that the community is in such a great shape. There’s a lot of new people participating and contributing, which is a great sign! After all as Cornelius showed in his talk - this year we have the most people ever contributing to KDE - and the year is not even over yet!

This year we also voted the new KDE Goals. I am really happy that KDE for Enterprise goal have been voted in. As someone pointed out (with a little tongue-in-cheek): we’ve solved gamers, now it’s time to solve enterprise. Kevin and the team in enioka Haute Couture are already doing great work on KDE PIM thanks to the Sovereign Tech Fund. They started with improving my akonadi-e2e-tests experiment and pushing it forward to a point where it has helped them discover (and fix) many bugs in CalDAV in IMAP - this is foundational work that everyone will benefit from. It’s inspiring to see so much activity and many new contributors in KDE PIM again.

I attended another talk about making KDE “lovable” by Eva and Jan. They discussed many things, but one that stood out to me, especially with relation to the Enterprise goal, is that we should make sure that the end-users, those who actually use our software in organizations, feel like they gained something by migrating away from whatever they were running on before and were used to. They should feel our software makes their jobs easier, makes them more efficient and feel like it adapts to their needs - make it not just usable, but /lovable/. I really liked that thought. How do we make KMail loveble, though? That’s a tough one…

As for myself, I had a lot of schnitzels over the couple days, took a slide down from Schlossberg, fixed some bugs and generally had a great time. I managed to get KMail, KOrganizer and KAddressBook to compile and run on macOS to the point that I can actually read and write emails. But there’s a lot of fixes and polish needed still, more on that some other day.

All in all, it was a very fun, very productive and very inspiring Akademy for me, and I can’t wait to see everyone again.