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Each year the KDE Community awards contributors the Akademy Awards, who have made a special contribution recently. The judges for the awards are the winners from the previous year.

There are 3 awards:

Best application
Best non-application contribution
Jury award

2014

Best Application: Jean-Baptiste Mardelle for his work on Kdenlive
Best Non-Application: Michael Pyne for maintaining kdesrc-build for over decade
Jury's Award: Ben Cooksley for planning out our systems and keeping them running smoothly

Plus:

Thanks you: Claudia Rauch for being KDE e.V.'s business manager for over six years
Organising: Daniel Vratil and the rest of the Akademy team for organizing Akademy 2014

2013

Best Application: Eike Hein for his work on Konversation
Best Non-Application: Vishesh Handa for taking over the Nepomuk maintainer hat and rocking at stabilizing the beast
Jury's Award: Timothee Giet for shaping the future and community of Krita
Jury's Award: Kenny Duffus for being the memory and soul of Akademy

2012

Best Application: Camilla Boemann for her work on Calligra Words
Best Non-Application: Lydia Pintscher for her huge work within KDE and especially on the GSOC/SOK-project
Jury's Award: Kévin Ottens and Nicolás Alvarez for working on the future of KDE (Frameworks 5 & Git conversion)

2011

Best Application: Martin Gräßlin for his work on KWin
Best Non-Application: Dario Andres for his work with the bug triaging team
Jury's Award: Tom Albers in building up the KDE sysadmin team, while continuing to do much work himself

2010

Best Application: Aurélien Gâteau for his work on Gwenview
Best Non-Application: Anne Wilson for her work in user support
Jury's Award: Burkhard Lück for his work on improving the state of KDE documentation

2009

Best Application: Peter Penz for his work on Dolphin
Best Non-Application: Celeste Lyn Paul for work in the usability team
Jury's Award: David Faure for greatest service to KDE

2008

Best Application: Mark Kretschmann and the Amarok team
Best Non-Application: Nuno Pinheiro and the Oxygen team
Jury's Award: Aaron Seigo for his work on Plasma

2007

Best Application: Sebastian Trueg for K3B
Best Non-Application: Matthias Kretz for his great work on Phonon
Jury's Award: Danny Allen for the Commit Digest

2006

Best Application: Boudewijn Rempt for Krita
Best Non-Application: Alexander Neundorf for his work on CMake in KDE4
Jury's Award: Laurent Montel for KDE4 Commit Champion

2005

Best Application: Albert Astals Cid and Enrico Ros for their work on KPDF
Best Non-Application: Lauri Watts for KDE documentation coordination
Jury's Award: Stephan Kulow and Oswald Buddenhagen for the effort they have put into the Subversion migration

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 * Best Non-Application: '''Michael Pyne''' for maintaining kdesrc-build for over decade
 * Jury's Award: '''Ben Cooksley''' for planning out our systems and keeping them running smoothly
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 * Thanks you: '''Claudia Rauch''' for being KDE e.V.'s business manager for over six years
 * Organising: '''Daniel Vratil''' and the rest of the Akademy team for organizing Akademy 2014
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 * Best Non-Application: '''Dario Andres''' for his work with the bug triaging team
 * Jury's Award: '''Tom Albers''' in building up the KDE sysadmin team, while continuing to do much work himself
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 * Best Non-Application: '''Anne Wilson''' for her work in user support
 * Jury's Award: '''Burkhard Lück''' for his work on improving the state of KDE documentation
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 * Best Non-Application: '''Nuno Pinheiro and the Oxygen team'''
 * Jury's Award: '''Aaron Seigo''' for his work on Plasma
 == [http://dot.kde.org/2007/07/04/akademy-awards-2007 2007] ==