Akademy/Awards
< Akademy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)