Akademy 2025 group photo.   This year's Akademy took place in Berlin, Germany. The city's modernity and avant-garde counterculture atmosphere fit very well with the current mood in the KDE community. As volunteer developers push forward with technologies that even multi-billion dollar corporations struggle to imitate, there is a general feeling that something great is on the horizon. With major migrations and potential adoptions in public administrations, not to mention KDE technologies making their way into all kinds of devices, it seems that we are finally on the verge of going mainstream and bringing FLOSS to the general public.