Press release / 28th August 2009
For immediate release

Akademy 2010 will be held in Tampere, Finland

Akademy, the annual developer conference of the open source desktop environment project KDE, will be held in the city of Tampere, Finland in 2010. KDE is one of the leading open source desktop projects and known to most Linux users.

Akademy will take place in late June / early July. The conference will be organized by COSS, the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions in cooperation with KDE e.V. Mr. Ilkka Lehtinen, Executive Director of COSS, is pleased that Tampere and COSS were chosen as the venue and organizers of Akademy.

– Akademy will be the most significant Linux event in Finland for years. We will need the support of volunteers and sponsors in organizing the event. We believe that COSS’s member organisations as well as other parties will gladly seize this opportunity, Mr. Lehtinen concludes.

Hundreds of software developers, testers, user interface experts and usability experts participate in Akademy each year. The conference focuses on the current and future state of the KDE project, community activities, software development methods, user interfaces and business opportunities, and more.

From a Finnish point of view, Akademy has a special point of interest. KDE is based on Qt, a cross-platform application and UI framework, originally developed by Norwegian company Trolltech. Nokia now owns Trolltech and Qt is heavily used by Nokia as well. Using Qt, you can write applications once and deploy them across many desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code.

COSS, the Finnish Centre of Open Source Solutions is a national development agency for open source business ecosystem in Finland and number one gateway to Finnish open source.

Press contact:
Ilkka Lehtinen, GSM +358 40 820 4600, email: ilkka.lehtinen@coss.fi
http://coss.fi/en/

http://akademy.kde.org/
http://kde.org/
http://ev.kde.org/
http://qt.nokia.com/