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Events: DevConf.Us, Linux Plumbers Conference, and Akademy 2025
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Major Hayden ☛ RAG talk recap from DevConf.US 2025
Hello from DevConf.US in Boston, Massachusetts!
I presented yesterday about the challenges of developing systems for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with large language models (LLMs). If you’ve been reading tech blogs lately, or the r/rag subreddit, you might think that implementing RAG is as simple as tossing documents into a database and watching the magic happen. (Spoiler alert: it’s not.)
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Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) ☛ Linux Plumbers Conference: In Person Registration is sold out
Apparently there was quite a bit more demand than we anticipated. We are running a waitlist which you can get on by filling in this form: [...]
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Akademy 2025
Akademy 2025 was hosted in Berlin, and this was my first time attending Akademy in person.
I was very excited both to see Berlin (and put my very shaky German skills to practice), as well as to attend our big yearly event and meet some more cool folks in person.
The trip out was fairly uneventful, if long (~17 hours of bus, planes, and train). The biggest difference compared to travelling to the Plasma sprint is that this time I had some good noise cancelling over-ear headphones -- what a lifesaver! Especially when you end up on a flight across the ocean sandwiched between 2 screaming, jumping, grabbing toddlers. 10/10 can recommend! The headphones, not the toddlers. 😂
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Volker Krause ☛ Akademy 2025
Akademy is a week of hanging out with old and new friends that also happens to have two days of presentations and multiple days of BoFs attached to it.
It was slightly weird hearing from public administration/public agencies in their talks how important digital sovereignty and public funding for FOSS are, it’s not like we haven’t been telling them for years and it’s them rather than us who are in a position to really change this. Anyway, I’d consider that a sign of success.
You’ll find a couple of reports about Akademy on Planet KDE already, I’ll focus on a few things I was involved in below.
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Harald Sitter ☛ Åkademy, Okademy, in Berlinemy!
Akademy 2025 is history. What an Akademy it was - and it was grand!
Akademy is KDE’s annual conference. This year it happend to be in Berlin, so I hopped on a short 🤥 10 hour train to the north to meet friends - old and new - and discuss the latest ventures of KDE.
The biggest topic of them all was, of course, KDE Linux. Once again we sent the conference buzzing. This year with the news of it entering alpha status. There were bananas a plenty, inspired by the original codename of the distribution: project banana. We even had a self defense course against fruit: How to defend yourself against someone armed with a banana.