Akademy-Fr happened in Toulouse last week-end part of a bigger FOSS event in Toulouse named

A track with talks about KDE also went on in the room near the booth: Kévin Ottens presented KDE as a community, Lambert Clara promoted KDevelop as an IDE for everyone’s project, Sébastien Renard explained how the French translation team checks translations in order to reach quality (using pology for example). David Faure then lead us to debug programs using valgrind, reading backtraces, having a thorough process when debugging and much more. Sébastien explained how to tackle IT complexity based on his own experiment.

Meanwhile, the KDE booth was always staffed and passers-by enjoyed the demos (Marble on a desktop, on Plasma Active and on a N9 for example) and could learn more about KDE with great leaflets.

I was particularly impressed to meet David Revoy who is an artiste living in Toulouse and he uses Krita for his professional graphical work. I also met an enthusiastic teacher who uses Kalzium and said that no other software can beat it. It’s great to see people using and enjoying our software and choosing it over proprietary ones.

On Sunday we had several workshops: translation, Frameworks5 and UI Consulting. Groups of people were busy learning and contributing.

Thanks to the sponsors and to Kévin, Jean-Nicolas, Benjamin for the organization. Thanks to the other Kévin and PixCyl for the great leaflet!