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0111                     <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Event"> <meta itemprop="name" content="Akademy 2019"><meta itemprop="startDate" content="2019-09-07T09:30"><meta itemprop="endDate" content="2019-07-13T16:30"><span itemprop="location" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place"> <meta itemprop="name" content="University of Milano-Bicocca"><span class="address" itemprop="address" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress"> <meta itemprop="addressCountry" content="IT"><meta itemprop="addressLocality" content="Milan"><meta itemprop="addressRegion" content="Lombardy"><meta itemprop="postalCode" content="20126"><meta itemprop="streetAddress" content="Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo, 1"></span> </span> <span itemprop="inLanguage" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Language"> <meta itemprop="name" content="English"></span> <meta itemprop="isAccessibleForFree" content="isAccessibleForFree"><span itemprop="organizer" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"> <meta itemprop="legalName" content="KDE e.V."><meta itemprop="alternatename" content="KDE"></span> <span itemprop="organizer" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"> <meta itemprop="legalName" content="unixMiB"></span> <meta itemprop="image" content="https://akademy.kde.org/sites/akademy.kde.org/files/2019/milanpanoramic.jpg"><meta itemprop="description" content="For most of the year, KDE—one of the largest free and open software communities in the world — works on-line by email, IRC, forums and mailing lists. Akademy provides all KDE contributors the opportunity to meet in person to foster social bonds, work on concrete technology issues, consider new ideas, and reinforce the innovative, dynamic culture of KDE. Akademy brings together artists, designers, developers, translators, users, writers, sponsors and many other types of KDE contributors to celebrate the achievements of the past year and help determine the direction for the next year. Hands-on sessions offer the opportunity for intense work bringing those plans to reality. The KDE community welcomes companies building on KDE technology, and those that are looking for opportunities. For more information, please contact the Akademy Team."><meta itemprop="url" content="https://akademy.kde.org/2019"></div>
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0113 <p><b>Akademy 2019 will be held at the <a href="https://www.unimib.it/unimib-international">University of Milano-Bicocca</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan">Milan</a>, Italy, from Saturday the 7th to Friday the 13th of September.</b></p>
0114 <p>The conference is expected to draw hundreds of attendees from the global <a href="https://www.kde.org/">KDE</a>
0115  community to discuss and plan the future of the community and its 
0116 technology. Many participants from the broad Free and Open Source 
0117 software community, local organizations and software companies will also
0118  attend.</p>
0119 <p><a href="https://ev.kde.org/">KDE e.V.</a> is organizing Akademy 2019 with <a href="https://unixmib.github.io/">unixMiB</a> — the Linux User Group of the University of Milano-Bicocca. unixMiB aims to spread Open Source philosophy among students.</p>
0120 <h2>Akademy 2019 Program</h2>
0121 <p>Akademy 2019 will start with 2 days of talks on Saturday and Sunday 
0122 (7th and 8th of September), followed by 5 days of workshops, Birds of a 
0123 Feather (BoF), training and coding sessions.</p>
0124 <h2>Call for Papers</h2>
0125 <p>The goal of the conference section of Akademy is to learn and teach 
0126 new skills, and share our passion around what we're doing together at 
0127 KDE.</p>
0128 <p>For the sharing of ideas, experiences and state of things, we will 
0129 have short Fast Track sessions in a single-track section of Akademy. 
0130 Teaching and sharing technical details is done through longer sessions 
0131 in the multi-track section of Akademy.</p>
0132 <p>If you have an idea or a story that you would like to present, please
0133  tell us about it. If you know of someone else who should present, 
0134 please encourage them to get in touch. For more details, see the 
0135 proposal guidelines and the <a href="http://akademy.kde.org/2019/cfp">Call for Papers</a>.</p>
0136 <p><strong>The submission deadline is 31st May, 23:59:59 CEST.</strong></p>
0137 <h2>About Milan</h2>
0138 <p>With a population of over 1.5 million inhabitants, Milan has a rich 
0139 history that stretches back to 600 BC. The city boasts interesting 
0140 museums, fascinating archaeological sites and breathtaking architecture 
0141 and monuments. It is also renowned for its excellent food and wine.</p>
0142 <p>Milan is considered a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city">global city</a>,
0143  with strengths in the field of the arts, commerce, design, education, 
0144 entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, services, research, 
0145 and tourism. It is the third-largest economy among European cities after
0146  Paris and London, but the fastest in growth among the three. It is also
0147  the wealthiest among European non-capital cities.</p>
0148 <p>Apart from being recognized as the world's fashion and design 
0149 capital, Milan has a strong IT-based sector and is home to powerhouses 
0150 such as Disney and SUSE. The adjacent towns are home to IBM Italia, 
0151 Samsung and the CILEA supercomputing center, one of the most advanced 
0152 HPC centers in Europe.</p>
0153 <h2>About the University of Milano-Bicocca</h2>
0154 <p>Akademy will be held in the halls of the University of 
0155 Milano-Bicocca. Milano-Bicocca is a public university that provides 
0156 undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate education in a wide range of 
0157 disciplinary fields including Economics, Informatics, Statistics, Law, 
0158 Education, Sociology, Medicine and Surgery, Maths, Natural Sciences, 
0159 Physics and Astrophysics, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Biotechnology, 
0160 and Psychology.</p>
0161 <p>The university is located to the north and east of the center of Milan and can easily be reached by bus and metro/underground.</p>
0162 <h2>About Akademy</h2>
0163 <p></p><figure style="float: left; padding: 1ex; margin: 1ex; border: 1px solid grey;"><a href="http://devel-home.kde.org/~duffus/akademy/2018/groupphoto/"><img style="float: center" src="Akademy%202019%20-%20Milan,%20Italy%20-%207th-13th%20September%20|%20Akademy_files/akademy2018-groupphoto-teensie.jpg"></a><br>Akademy 2018, Vienna</figure><p></p>
0164 <p>For most of the year, KDE—one of the largest free and open software 
0165 communities in the world — works on-line by email, IRC, forums and 
0166 mailing lists. Akademy provides all KDE contributors the opportunity to 
0167 meet in person to foster social bonds, work on concrete technology 
0168 issues, consider new ideas, and reinforce the innovative, dynamic 
0169 culture of KDE. Akademy brings together artists, designers, developers, 
0170 translators, users, writers, sponsors and many other types of KDE 
0171 contributors to celebrate the achievements of the past year and help 
0172 determine the direction for the next year. Hands-on sessions offer the 
0173 opportunity for intense work bringing those plans to reality. The KDE 
0174 community welcomes companies building on KDE technology, and those that 
0175 are looking for opportunities. For more information, please contact <a href="mailto:akademy-team@kde.org">the Akademy Team</a>.</p>
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