GUADEC Schedule online!

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi all,

So, after some furious last-minute planning, we have got a provisional 
schedule for GUADEC online at http://2005.guadec.org/schedule

The schedule is looking pretty sharp - a *big* change from previous year 
sis that on the second day of the schedule, we have almost nothing 
planned. The day is yours to be claimed. In the morning, we will have 
lightning talks (5 minutes or less to impress), a Topaz/GNOME 3.0 
planning session, and then in the afternoon, when we're all well fed, we 
get down to the serious business of planning the future of GNOME. Then, 
at the end of the afternoon, we all get together and fuse our brains 
with the raw enthusiasm oozing out of a massive group session, before 
going for a nice quiet evening reading the times and playing chess. In 
the pub.

Another new feature of the conference is that it's packed choc-a-bloc 
with tutorials - in all, there are 7 hours of tutorials on things like 
PyGTK, unit testing, and straightforward GNOME Love.

A big welcome too to a multimedia mini-conference, with 9 multimedia 
related talks spread over Sunday and Wednesday.

As Mike Myers said best in the Cat in the Hat, "I'm so excited!".

Run, don't walk, to mail.gnome.org to sign up for the low-traffic and 
ultra-important guadec-list gnome org (this is the last mail I will be 
sending to foundation-list and/or ddl about GUADEC), and on your way 
have a quick look at http://live.gnome.org/Stuttgart2005 - your 
scratch-pad for GUADEC planning. This is where lightning talks, BOFs, 
lift planning & meeting spots and times will all get added. If you've 
found a cheap airline, let us know. If you can't find one, let us know too.

Let the brain fusing begin! (with apologies to Jeff Waugh for stealing 
his phrase).

Cheers,
Dave.