Earlier last month I helped organize conf.kde.in 2025 in the Gandhinagar, Gujarat. This was very exciting for me as it was apparently in same venue where I had attended my very first KDE event!
General structure of event
As of recent years, conf.kde.in has been three-day event, two days of conference followed by one day of un-conference sessions, those of who attend the Akademy or GSoC mentor summit, this is not a new format. Un-conference allows audience to schedule a session they’re interested in and is pretty much open-mic session for anyone.
Conference day 1 and 2
We had many exciting talks ranging on various topics of self hosting, mirroring, KDE Eco initiative, clazy and much more! You can check full schedule on conf.kde.org.
Rishi has done very nice blog post summarizing all the talks on his blog, Please give it a read Unfortunately we had to shuffle around some talks during event due to operational reasons (more on this later on) or cancel some talks because of speaker’s unavailability.
Un-conference session
Similar to last year, this year also we had a un-conference sessions planned for topics which we couldn’t cover in regular tracks or ad-hoc topics that come up during the conference sessions.
This year we had Joseph talking and collecting new ideas for end of Windows 10 campaign , Advaith from SUSE talking about HackMud game, Rishi, Shubham giving live demo of Steamdeck from Valvein which KDE Plasma is used to provide the “desktop mode” and of-course I gave demo of the Plasma Mobile on OnePlus6 running postmarketOS. We also had a installation event to help attandees install Linux on their machine if they wanted. Thanks to Rishi, Sahil, Shubham and Advaith for helping on this!
Overall these were very interactive sessions and attendees as well as the speakers were very excited to participate in these sessions.
Word of thanks!
I would like to thank GDG on Campus - DA-IICT for their on-site support in helping organize, there are many names to thank, but some which I can remember, in no particular order, Pranshu Patel, Jash Shah, Harsh Gajjar, Dhruv Jain, Jash Shah and many more, you can find their team members here.
In addition I would like to thank KDE e.V. for sponsoring event organization costs as well as travel and accommodation costs for speakers! If you would like to support more such events please donate to KDE community.
Future?
Yes, of-course we want to do conf.kde.in 2026! But before that I would like to hear little bit about your experience of conf.kde.in and what you want to improve in current format of conference.
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