All work and no play makes you boring. So it's time for some play, GUADEC! In case you don't know it (where have you been?), GUADEC is *THE* GNOME conference: http://guadec.org/ And it's extremely good fun to hang out with all the GNOME rockstars. Last year, some of the GSoC students were able to attend GUADEC and it was really fun and useful. Meeting your mentor, some people interested in your project and other community members has a positive impact on your work. Showing what you already achieved is also fantastic to get some good feedback. So it's probably a good thing for the students of this year's GSoC to attend GUADEC, if possible. We talked with GUADEC organizers, and they support the idea. While there's no guarantee, it's possible that you can get a sponsorship to attend GUADEC, if you need it. Our budget is limited, but we'll do our best. Please see the earlier sent mail by Germán for details. Of course, attending GUADEC is not mandatory. ;) We've also been allocated a slot for student lightning talks. These are short presentations (5, 10 or 15 minutes, to be decided) where each student gets the opportunity to present his/her work. It's also a good way to get a lot of interest (and become, like we promised, our next rockstar ;)). All of this still has to be organized though, more on that later. So, we'd like to know if you'd like to attend the conference. Please show us some love and reply to this mail asap so we can know about your plans wrt GUADEC. Also, please do not forget to apply for sponsorship if you need it before May 16, 2012, 23:59 UTC. Cheers, Your friendly GSoC admins. -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons ================================================ daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gnome org> http://www.dgsiegel.net gnupg key id: 0xDB8E409F fingerprint: F9DD 693C 9E8B 9121 B20B 202E C7D3 3397 DB8E 409F encrypted email preferred
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