GUADEC 2004 Call for Papers

[David Neary <dneary free fr>]

GUADEC 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS
The Fifth European Gnome Users and Developers Conference
June 28-30, 2004, Kristiansand, Norway
http://guadec.org/


Abstract submission deadline: February 1st, 2004

The European Gnome Users and Developers Conference (GUADEC) invite you 
to participate in the Fifth Conference on June 28-30, 2004, 
Kristiansand, Norway

The GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC) will bring 
together developers, GNOME Foundation leaders and  individual, business 
and government GNOME and open source software users. The conference is 
a unique forum for highlighting the capabilities and direction of 
GNOME, the user environment for desktops, networked servers and 
portable Internet devices.  GUADEC will also feature discussions of the 
future direction of open source development.

We're looking for people to give

-   Talks, Tutorials, Posters, Panels, Planning Sessions / BOFS

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

GNOME  core:  Latest developments on the GNOME desktop, core GNOME 
applications, related libraries, security, Mobility and Wireless Access 
etc.
Free Software in the Information Society: Development of policies and 
cases related to Patents, Open Standards, Migration strategies and 
experiences (e.g. Office documents), Software in Public sector such as 
schools and hospitals, Information Society progress including 
developing countries.
Graphics:  Development and deployment of applications in particular: 
Multimedia, Games, Film, GIMP 
Freestyle: Interesting Free Software issues not covered in the other 
tracks and open for a less formal forms of presentation

REFEREED PAPERS TRACK
GUADEC seeks original papers describing research in all areas based on 
GNOME or related to Open Source. Papers should not have been published 
or be in submission at another conference or journal. Accepted papers 
will appear on the Web site and we plan to publish them in conference 
proceedings. For papers to appear in the proceedings, we need to be 
strict on the submission format. Format details available on the above 
web site.
Note that the Freestyle submissions can appear in the printed 
proceedings if the format requirements are fulfilled. Authors are 
required to GPL the copyright.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors of papers are invited to submit abstracts (150 - 400 words) in 
plain text, due February 1st 2004
Final papers (1500 - 4000 words) or maximum 5 pages, photo and 
biography, due May 15th 2004.

Please send your submission to guadec-papers gnome org See 
http://2004.guadec.org/ for further details and information on Posters, 
Panels, and Planning Sessions / BOFS

Kristiansand is situated on the Norwegian south coast, offering a city 
beach and a vivid summer town life. The most visited attraction in 
Norway, the zoo (Dyreparken), is located nearby Kristiansand.  Here the 
animals are kept in large outdoor space instead of cages.  Perhaps we 
can even find some gnu's there. For those who prefer an excursion to a 
waterfall and Salmon River this can be also arranged. Other options 
include concerts, visit to islands, etc.

General questions about GUADEC may be sent to info guadec org

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David Neary,
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