aKademy awards
The KDE Appreciation Awards, also known as the "aKademy Awards", are awards that the KDE community gives to KDE contributors. Their purpose is to recognize outstanding contribution to KDE. They are given in a yearly basis inside the yearly aKademy conference. There are three awards, best application, best contribution to KDE and the Jury's Choice Award.
aKademy Awards 2007
Jury: Boudewijn Rempt, Alexander Neundorf and Laurent Montel.
Best Application: Sebastian Trueg for K3b.
Best Non-Application: Matthias Kretz for Phonon.
Jury's Award: Danny Allen for the KDE Commit-Digest.
aKademy Awards 2006
Jury: Albert Astals Cid, Enrico Ros, Lauri Watts, Stephan Kulow and Oswald Buddenhagen.
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.
aKademy Awards 2005
Jury: Aaron Seigo, Brad Hards, David Faure and Matthias Ettrich.
Best Application: Albert Astals Cid and Enrico Ros for KPDF.
Best Non-Application: Lauri Watts for the KDE documentation.
Jury's Award: Stephan Kulow and Oswald Buddenhagen for Subversion migration.
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