The Qt Contributor Summit is an annual community event hosted by Qt Group, which brings together developers, contributors, and maintainers. This is a unique opportunity for participants to connect with each other, learn about the latest developments in Qt, and further contribute to the future of the framework.
You can read the sessions summary, notes, and more on our wiki.
This year, we met in the Bavarian city of Munich, Germany.
Qt Contributor Summit 2025 was yet another successful event with 84 participants in total, 45 from Qt Group and 39 from the broader community. Also present were representatives from long-term partners and the KDE community.
This time, our event had three main activities on different days:
Welcome Event, May 6th
Following the end of the Qt World Summit, we met at a bar for some food and drinks, and some quality social time.
It was a great social time for people to mingle, full of Qt employees, community contributors, and partners to get to know each other and connect.
Some of our ecosystem partners present were Felgo, Renesas, and Scythe Studio.
Qt Contributor Summit Sessions, May 8th
The morning started with a keynote from Volker and Vladimir, with an overview and re-cap of our Roadmap, along with a spotlight for Qt Bridges.
Qt Bridges will enable QML and Qt Quick to be used as the front-end with various backend languages - initially Rust, Python, .NET, Swift, Kotlin, and Java. Find out more about it here.
We introduced Lightning Talks, where attendees could pitch some ideas and topics for discussions.
In the afternoon we moved to breakout rooms, where 20 different talks and discussions were held!
We finished the night with a sit-down dinner where everyone could just mingle and relax after a packed week of events.
Hacking Day, May 9th
This new initiative was held at the Qt Munich Office, where people gathered to continue discussing topics from the Contributor Summit and hack together. The collaborative work revolved around Wayland and graphics, led by Dominik and Robert; QML stirred by Fabian; and Qt Core where Thiago, Volker and a handful of other people met in the larger meeting room. The community also discussed and hacked on C++ 26, vector icons, and accessibility.
The feedback we got from attendees was overwhelmingly positive!
65% I think it was great!
45% I think it was ok.
0% I didn't like it.
Stay tuned and join us in our next Qt Contributor Summit!
