GNOME Summit (article)

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

Summit article - it needs a couple of photos, and a couple of key quotes
from attendees (similar to the GUADEC quotes I put in).

Cheers,
Dave.

GNOME Hackers descend on MIT Media Center
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The traditional Autumn gathering of GNOME hackers in the heart New
England, the 2006 edition of the GNOME Summit took place in the MIT
Media Lab for the first time this year.

The Summit is a very different type of meeting to GUADEC - around 100
people gather to plan and hack, and there are no organised
presentations. Instead, group leaders channel efforts towards topics
chosen by the group into BOFs (Bird of a Feather sessions), which
typically include 10 to 20 people.

This year, Jeff Waugh and Chris Blizzard worked the conference into a
frenzy, and the volume of plans and notes to come out of the week was
incredible.

Among some notable subjects discussed at the Summit were Gmaking NOME's
artwork rock, improving data collection on bugs from GNOME users, text
layout and fonts, improving desktop accessibility, and more.

There was also a very well received embedded hackfest and meeting at the
Summit, which attracted developers from Nokia, ACCESS, OpenedHand,
Collabora and other companies and individuals in the mobile and embedded
space.

(include a couple of quotes from blogs about how much the summit kicked ass)



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Dave Neary
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