Dear GNOME friends,
It is a great pleasure to announce
that public registration [1] for the GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 [2] is
officially opened. It will be our forth summit and happens on the
weekend of April 2 and 3, 2011 in Bangalore (India), right after
the GNOME 3.0 Bangalore Hackfest [3]. The main theme of the summit
will be "The Next Generation Free Desktop: GNOME 3.0" [4]. We will
be able to jump on the opportunity of having a lot of the GNOME
developers [5] already on site to aim for the greatest GNOME.Asia
Summit of all time.
Please join and help us to spread
the word by putting up one of our banners [6] into your blog /
website as well as inviting your friends to join the event! Thank
you!
GNOME.Asia Summit 2011
Date: April 2-3 (Sat - Sun) 8:30am to 6:00pm
Venue: Dayananda Sagar Educational Institutions, Shivage
Malleshwara Hills, Kumaraswamy Layout, Bangalore
Theme: The next Generation Free Desktop
About GNOME.Asia Summit
GNOME.Asia Summit is an annual
conference for GNOME users and developers in Asia. The event
focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop and other devices that use
GNOME, and also covers GNOME-based applications and GNOME
development platform tools. It brings together the GNOME community
in Asia to provide a forum for users, developers, foundation
leaders, governments and businesses to discuss both the present
technologies and future developments. GNOME.Asia Summit has been
held in Beijing, China in 2008 and Ho-Chi-Minh City, Vietnam in
2009. The summit has been recognized as one of the top three FLOSS
conferences in China in 2008 by the Chinese government, the
biggest FLOSS conference in Vietnam in 2009 by the Vietnamese
government and one of the biggest FLOSS conference in Taiwan in
2010.
Useful links
[1]
http://2011.gnome.asia/en/p/Register2011/
[2] http://2011.gnome.asia/en/p/index/
[3] http://live.gnome.org/Hackfests/GNOME.Asia2011
[4] http://gnome3.org
[5] http://2011.gnome.asia/Speakers2011/
[6] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit/PromoteRegistration
Best regards,
Pockey Lam
GNOME.Asia Committee