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Planet KDE (Desktop Engineers): Akademy 2026

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Executive Summary

In September, I traveled to Graz, Austria, to attend KDE's annual conference - Akademy , which also marked KDE's 30th birthday this year. Unfortunately I fell sick and was not able to celebrate as much as I would have liked. I wasn't able to attend the welcome event, not the first day of the conference. Luckily there was a great video team covering the event so I could enjoy the live streams.

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