GUADEC 2017 call for talk submissions

[Sam Thursfield <ssssam gmail com>]

Hello,

The GUADEC papers committee is looking for interesting, high-quality,
talks for this year’s conference (being held in Manchester, UK, on 28
July to 2nd August). This is a great opportunity to share your ideas
with the GNOME project, as well as the wider open source community. You
don’t have to be an existing member of the GNOME project to submit a
talk: if you have something interesting to say about software or
technology, we want to hear from you!

Subjects that we are particularly interested in include:

 * Design of user and developer experiences
 * Operating system plumbing
 * Application development and deployment
 * Use of GNOME technologies outside the desktop
 * Outreach to new contributors
 * Project organisation and governance
 * Privacy and security
 * Developments in open source/Free Software
 * The GNOME developer experience

However, if there is another subject that you would like to talk about,
we would love to see your submission.

Talks can be either 25 or 40 minutes in length, which includes time for
questions.

Schedule
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23rd April: deadline for talk submissions

7th May: speakers will be notified by email if their talk has been accepted

12th May: deadline for speakers to confirm their attendance

28th-30th July: core conference days in Manchester, England

How to submit a talk
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Talks should be submitted through the GUADEC registration website at
https://registration.guadec.org

A separate call for lightning talks, birds of a feather sessions and
hackfests will be made later.

The papers team is looking forward to your talk proposal. In case of
questions regarding the call for talks, please contact the papers team
at guadec-papers@gnome org. For general questions regarding the
conference, please consult the GUADEC web site or contact the local
GUADEC organizing team at guadec-organization gnome org.

Thanks
Sam (on behalf of the GUADEC papers committee)