[GNOME-India] Fwd: Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Call for Participation

[Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ) <sankarshan randomink org>]

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From: Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>
Date: Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Subject: Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Call for Participation
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The Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, co-hosting GUADEC, the GNOME
Conference, and Akademy, the KDE conference, invite you to participate
in the inaugural Desktop Summit, from July 4th to July 10th 2009, in
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain.

This year's conference represents the first time that Akademy and
GUADEC will be co-hosted, the core theme of the conference is "the
Free Software desktop". The GUADEC planners invite talks from
developers on core technologies which enable new ground breaking
functionality, application developers building cross-desktop
applications for Linux, and GNOME visionaries plotting the future of
the computing user interface. We also welcome presentations by people
from GNOME related projects, users of GNOME technologies and from our
partner projects.

We are asking for four types of submissions:
- 30 minutes presentations on GNOME topics
- 30 minutes presentations on cross-desktop topics
- 5 minutes lightning talks
- BOF and workgroup proposals

We invite people to submit abstracts for 30 minute presentations about
GNOME or cross-desktop topics to guadec-papers gnome org, including
your name, biographical information, and a photo suitable for the web,
and a title and description of your presentation, of under 400 words.

We also welcome informal proposals for 5 minute lightening talks to be
held on Saturday July 5th and proposals for BOFs and workgroups which
will be held from Tuesday July 7th until Friday July 10th. Proposals
for lightning talks and BOFs will be accepted on a
first-come-first-served basis, in the limits of available space.
Please send your proposals to guadec-papers gnome org 

The deadline for submissions is Friday April 10th, 2009.

Successful candidates will be selected and notified by the organizing
committee by April 24th, 2009.

More information at http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/callforpapers
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