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[Fwd: Announcing the Desktop Summit 2010]

Hi all,

Forwarding on to the GNOME marketing list (left off the original CC list).

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
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Hi dear GNOME and KDE friends,

Tomorrow around 1400 Berlin/Amsterdam/Paris time or 12:00 UTC the Desktop Summit webpage will go online and 
we'd like to send out press announcements. The press announcement is attached, would you be willing to send 
it to your press contacts?

The GNOME news site, KDE's DOT and the  KDE e.V. and GNOME Foundation sites will all feature content on this. 
Please spread the word!

More over, all promo/marketing folks : If you want to help with the promo surrounding the desktop summit, 
please subscribe to the Desktop Summit Marketing Mailinglist:

https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/ds-marketing

Note that we NEED HELP so think about joining :D

Note that the tag for the Desktop Summit will be #DS2011 on flickr, identi.ca etcetera!

Thank you,

Jos Poortvliet


DESKTOP SUMMIT 2011 from 6 till 12 August in Berlin

Berlin, 5th October, 2010 - The Desktop Summit is a co-located event which features the yearly contributor 
conferences of the GNOME and KDE communities, GUADEC and Akademy. Next year the conference will take place 
from 6 to 12 August, 2011  in the city center of Berlin at the Humboldt University, Unter den Linden. The 
event will feature keynotes, talks, workshops and team building events.

The GNOME and KDE communities develop the majority of Free Software desktop technology. Increasingly, they 
cooperate on underlying infrastructure. By holding their annual developer flagship events in the same 
location, the two projects hope to foster collaboration and discussion between their developer communities. 
Furthermore, KDE and GNOME aim to work more closely with the rest of the desktop and mobile open source 
community. The summit presents a unique opportunity for main actors to work together and improve the free and 
open source desktop for all.

Almuth Nehring-Venus, Permanent Secretary for Economics, Technology and Women?s Issues, Berlin Senate:

"We are proud to be able to welcome the participants of the Desktop Summit 2011 to the capital region next 
year. I hope that the joint conference of the two largest Free Desktop projects GNOME and KDE will provide an 
 additional boost for our Open Source/Open Standard initiative within the framework of Berlin?s IT strategy 
and therefore also to further  high-value jobs in our region."
At the Desktop Summit 2011, KDE and GNOME expect well over a thousand core  contributors, prominent open 
source technology leaders, representatives from government, education and corporate backgrounds, and hundreds 
of open source desktop engineers, usability experts and designers.
At the Desktop Summit 2011 KDE and GNOME expect well over a thousand core contributors, prominent open source 
technology leaders, government, education and corporate representatives and hundreds of open source desktop 
engineers, usability experts and designers. Local and international IT industry are invited to learn about 
and join in developing the latest innovative desktop technology. The event is locally supported by the TSB 
Innovation Agency Berlin GmbH and the Berlin Senate. 

The registration for the Desktop Summit will open on 1 February 2011 and a call for papers will be issued. 
Talk submissions will be due on 15th of March and on 15 April the conference program will be announced. 
Saturday  6 August kicks off 3 days of joint keynotes, talks and social events  followed by four days of 
collaborative workshops. The conference  officially ends on Friday, 12 August.

About the Desktop Summit:

The Desktop Summit is a joint initiative by GNOME and KDE to encourage the development and use of a free 
desktop. The shared objectives include the exchange of technology, cooperation on projects and developing new 
opportunities with Free and Open Source  Software on the desktop.

The first Desktop Summit in 2009 was a huge success: More than 850 free software advocates from 46 countries 
gathered together in Las Palmas on Gran Canaria to discuss and enhance the free desktop experience. The 
summit accomplished its goal of increasing co-operation and throughout the conference there were many 
examples of improvements to current and development of new shared technologies.

About GNOME and the GNOME Foundation
 
GNOME is a  free-software project whose goal is to develop a complete, accessible and easy to use desktop for 
Linux and Unix-based operating systems. GNOME also includes a complete development environment to create new 
applications. It is released twice a year on a regular schedule.
 
The  GNOME desktop is used by millions of people around the world. GNOME is a  standard part of all leading 
GNU/Linux and Unix distributions, and is popular with both large existing corporate deployments and millions 
of  small business and home users worldwide.
 
Composed of hundreds of volunteer developers and industry-leading companies, the GNOME Foundation is an 
organization committed to supporting the advancement of  GNOME. 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. More information about GNOME and the GNOME Foundation can be found at 
http://www.gnome.org and http://foundation.gnome.org.

About KDE and KDE e. V.

KDE is an international community that creates Free Software for desktop and  portable computing. Among KDE's 
products are innovative workspaces for  Linux and UNIX platforms, the KDE Platform for rapid development and 
a comprehensive range of applications. KDE offers hundreds of software  titles in many categories including 
communication and groupware, office  producitvity, web applications, multimedia, entertainment, education,  
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. Applications  built on KDE Platform 4 run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, 
Windows and  Mac OS X.

KDE e. V. is a nonprofit association that represents the international community supported KDE operating 
legally, financially and organizationally. More informations about KDE and KDE e. V. can be found at 
http://www.kde.org and http://ev.dke.org

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For further informations and interviews please contact us:

Offical contact Desktop Summit 2011:
Mirko Böhm, Spokesman
c/o KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH & Co. KG
Tempelhofer Ufer 11, D-10963 Berlin
phone +49 (0)30 - 5 21 32 54-70
http://www.desktopsummit.org

Press contact Desktop Summit (WORLD):
Jos Poortvliet, jos opensuse org
mobile +31(0)6 22 37 75 45

Press contact Desktop Summit (DACH):
Thomas Keup, thomas keup opencoffee de
mobile +49(0)171 - 4 18 00 84

Organizer GNOME Foundation:
Stormy Peters, Executive Director
e-mail: stormy gnome org
http://foundation.gnome.org/

Organizer KDE e. V.:
Claudia Rauch, Business Manager
e-mail rauch kde org
http://ev.kde.org/

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