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gnomeweb-wml r6224 - in trunk: . www.gnome.org www.gnome.org/press/releases

Author: vuntz
Date: Tue Jul 15 09:14:46 2008
New Revision: 6224
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnomeweb-wml?rev=6224&view=rev

Log:
2008-07-13  Vincent Untz  <vuntz gnome org>

	Add PR about GUADEC+Akademy in 2009.

	* www.gnome.org/index.wml: (and remove GUADEC from upcoming event)
	* www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-guadec-akademy-grancanaria.w
	ml:
	* www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am:
	* www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml:


Added:
   trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-guadec-akademy-grancanaria.wml
Modified:
   trunk/ChangeLog
   trunk/www.gnome.org/index.wml
   trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am
   trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml

Modified: trunk/www.gnome.org/index.wml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/www.gnome.org/index.wml	(original)
+++ trunk/www.gnome.org/index.wml	Tue Jul 15 09:14:46 2008
@@ -20,35 +20,21 @@
 <div id="bottomLeftLeft">
 <h2>Latest News</h2>
 
+<h3><a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-guadec-akademy-grancanaria.html";>GUADEC and Akademy to be co-located in Gran Canaria in 2009</a></h3>
+<p>The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. announced that they will hold their yearly conferences, GUADEC and Akademy in 2009 in Gran Canaria. The conferences will be separate events, but co-located and hosted by the same organizers.</p>
+
 <h3><a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-stormy-executive-director.html";>GNOME hires Stormy Peters as Executive Director</a></h3>
 <p>Bringing to an end a long search, the GNOME Foundation has hired Stormy Peters, a well-known industry analyst with a long-standing relationship with GNOME, as their Executive Director. The hire was announced at GUADEC 2008, GNOME's flagship conference, in Istanbul.</p>
 
 <h3><a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/soc/";>Google Summer of Code</a></h3>
 <p>For the fourth consecutive year, GNOME is participating to the <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/";>Google Summer of Code</a>. If you are a student and you want to learn more, you can read the <a href="http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2008/Students";>information for students</a> and then look at the <a href="http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2008/Ideas";>ideas for projects</a> on our wiki to prepare your application!</p>
 
-<h3><a href="http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/";>GNOME 2.22 Released!</a></h3>
-<p>The GNOME desktop and platform received many improvements and new
-features. Learn more about this release through the detailed 
-<a href="http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/";>release notes</a>.</p>
-
 </div>
 
 <div id="bottomLeftRight">
 
 <h2>Upcoming Events</h2>
 
-<h3><a href="http://www.guadec.org/";>GUADEC 2008</a></h3>
-<i>July 7-12, 2008; Istanbul, Turkey</i>
-<p>At the annual European GNOME Conference, GNOME hackers from all across the
-globe will gather and show off new cool technologies, party and discuss the
-future direction of the project.</p>
-<p>Keynote speakers include Leisa Reichelt and Matt Webb, who are both heavily
-involved in user experience, and Eric Sink, founder of AbiSource and software
-development business entrepreneur!</p>
-<p>Do you have anything interesting to show the rest of the GNOME Community?
-<a href="http://guadec.org/guadec08/public/cfp/1";>Send in your talk proposal</a>
-before Sunday 30th March.</p>
-
 <h3><a href="http://www.gnome.asia/";>GNOME.Asia Summit 2008</a></h3>
 <i>October 17-18, 2008; Beijing, China</i>
 <p>The first GNOME.Asia Summit will take place from October 17th through the

Added: trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-guadec-akademy-grancanaria.wml
==============================================================================
--- (empty file)
+++ trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/2008-07-guadec-akademy-grancanaria.wml	Tue Jul 15 09:14:46 2008
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
+<html>
+
+<head>
+<title>GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009</title>
+<meta name="cvsdate" content="$Date$" />
+</head>
+
+<body>
+
+<h1>GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009</h1>
+
+<p>
+Istanbul, Turkey, July 13, 2008: The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. today
+announced that they will hold their yearly conferences, GUADEC and Akademy in
+2009 in Gran Canaria. The conferences will be separate events, but co-located
+and hosted by the same organizers, the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and its
+Secretary of Tourism, Technological Innovation and Foreign Trade.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"The GNOME community is very excited about the co-hosted GUADEC and Akademy"
+says Behdad Esfahbod, president at the GNOME foundation, "GUADEC has
+traditionally been a very important chance for our community to meet in person,
+build great working relationships and make new friends. We're looking forward
+to having the opportunity to extend those relationships to our KDE colleagues
+at Akademy/GUADEC."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+KDE e.V.'s vice-president Adriaan de Groot adds "KDE e.V. is looking forward to
+a co-located conference, where the GNOME and KDE communities can mingle and
+cooperate as never before in one location. Gran Canaria is uniquely located at
+the junction of Europe and Africa, close to the Americas and is a fitting place
+for a historic 'meet-your-neighbours' conference."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+GUADEC and Akademy 2009 will be held on Gran Canaria, an island of the Canary
+Islands archipelago. The tentative schedule plans the event from Friday, July,
+3rd until Saturday, July 11th 2009 in the Alfredo Kraus auditorium and the
+adjacent Congress Palace in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+This co-located event will turn Gran Canaria into the capital of
+Freedesktop.org development for a whole week next summer.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+While there were other excellent bids, the GNOME foundation and KDE e.V. have
+settled on Gran Canaria because of its position as Port to Africa and the
+excellent circumstances for holding such an event there. Unfortunately, having
+three proposals, two have to be rejected. The proposals from Tampere in Finland
+and Coruna in Spain were close contenders. Both foundations would like to thank
+those organisers for the work they have put into their proposals and encourage
+them to consider their cities for conferences in future years.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The <a href="http://grancanariadesktopmeeting.eslic.es/";>conference organiser's
+Wiki</a> has extensive information about the planned conferences on the
+Canaries.
+</p>
+
+<h3>About GNOME and the GNOME Foundation</h3>
+
+<p>
+The GNOME desktop is a free, easy to use, accessible and 
+internationalized desktop for Linux and Unix-based operating systems 
+used by millions. GNOME is a standard part of all leading GNU/Linux and 
+Unix distributions, and is popular with both large existing corporate 
+deployments and small business and home users. GNOME also includes a 
+complete development environment which provides the core platform for 
+thousands of applications.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The GNOME Foundation is an organization committed to supporting the 
+advancement of GNOME, comprised of hundreds of volunteer developers and 
+industry-leading companies. The Foundation is a member directed, 
+non-profit organization that provides financial, organizational and 
+legal support to the GNOME project and helps determine its vision and 
+roadmap. The GNOME Foundation is supporting the pursuit of Software 
+Freedom through the innovative, accessible, and beautiful user 
+experience created by GNOME contributors around the world. It's a fun 
+and inviting community, so if you're reading this and wondering what 
+you can do to help promote Software Freedom, contributing to GNOME is a 
+great way to start! More information about GNOME and the GNOME 
+Foundation can be found at www.gnome.org and foundation.gnome.org. 
+</p>
+
+<p>
+GNOME Foundation sponsoring members include Access, Canonical, Debian,
+the Free Software Foundation, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Igalia, Imendio, 
+Intel, Mozilla, Nokia, Novell, OLPC, Opened Hand, Red Hat, and Sun 
+Microsystems, with legal pro bono work provided by Software Freedom Law 
+Center and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati.
+</p>
+
+<h3>About KDE and the KDE e.V.</h3>
+
+<p>
+KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open source
+software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern
+desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity
+and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories
+including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment,
+educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into
+more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility
+principles in mind. KDE4's full-featured applications run natively on Linux,
+BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+KDE e.V. is the organization that supports the growth of the KDE community. Its
+mission statement -- to promote and distribute Free Desktop software -- is
+provided through legal, financial and organizational support for the KDE
+community. KDE e.V. organises the yearly KDE World Summit "Akademy", along with
+numerous smaller-scale development meetings.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+More information about KDE and the KDE e.V. can be found at
+<a href="http://www.kde.org/";>www.kde.org</a> and
+<a href="http://ev.kde.org/";>ev.kde.org</a>.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Media Enquiries</h2>
+<ul>
+<li style="list-style-type: none;"><p>
+ GNOME Foundation Executive Director<br/>
+ Stormy Peters<br/>
+ Email: <a class="mailto" href="mailto:gnome-press-contact gnome org">gnome-press-contact gnome org</a><br>
+ Phone: +1-617-206-3947
+</p></li>
+
+<li style="list-style-type: none;"><p>
+ KDE e.V. Board<br/>
+ Email: <a class="mailto" href="mailto:kde-ev-board kde org">kde-ev-board kde org</a>
+</p></li>
+
+</ul><span class="anchor" id="bottom"></span>
+
+
+</body>
+
+</html>

Modified: trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am
==============================================================================
--- trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am	(original)
+++ trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/Makefile.am	Tue Jul 15 09:14:46 2008
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@
 	2008-03-mofojoins.html \
 	2008-04-mobilesummit.html \
 	2008-04-22-akademy-guadec.html \
-	2008-07-stormy-executive-director.html
+	2008-07-stormy-executive-director.html \
+	2008-07-guadec-akademy-grancanaria.html
 
 include $(top_srcdir)/rules.common

Modified: trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml	(original)
+++ trunk/www.gnome.org/press/releases/index.wml	Tue Jul 15 09:14:46 2008
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@
 <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td></tr>
 <tr><th align="left" colspan="2">2008</th></tr>
 <tr>
+	<td>Jul 13, 2008</td>
+	<td><a href="/press/releases/2008-07-guadec-akademy-grancanaria.html">GNOME and KDE to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
 	<td>Jul 07, 2008</td>
 	<td><a href="/press/releases/2008-07-stormy-executive-director.html">GNOME hires Stormy Peters as Executive Director</a></td>
 </tr>
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