[guadec-list] asian story redone..

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

OK.  Here's my next try at it.  I hope this is better than the last one.

sri


-- 
Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>

Asia is the growing market in this century.  The GNOME desktop is
well positioned to take on this market with massive deployments
in China and India representing over 150,000 desktops.  There is a
growing interest in pursuing the GNU/Linux desktop market in these
countries and as more deployments ensue the interest will continue
to mount.  Exciting inroads have been made by Sun, Red Hat, and Novell
in the asian market.  

Simon Phillips of Sun Microsystems, the primary person who negiotated
the deal with the China's Department of Education will be attending
and giving one of the many exciting keynote speeches at GUADEC.
GUADEC is the primary conference of the GNOME Desktop project
(http://www.gnome.org) traditionally held in Europe where developers,
enthusiasts, users and businesses from around the world gather to
exchange and work on new ideas to advanced not only GNOME but the
GNU/Linux desktop in general.  GUADEC an excellent venue for 
the press to learn about what companies like Novell and Red Hat
are doing to capture the desktop market in Asia.  Novell has committed
it's team from India to particpate in GUADEC.

GUADEC refreshes the bond between developers and provides an avenue
for users and businesses to provide feedback to the GNOME project.
GUADEC also attracts participants from sister projects like the KDE
project pursuing collaborating goals to standardize the GNU/Linux
desktop.

Participants as far off as Mongolia are making the trek to Vilanova,
Spain the current site of GUADEC.  Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar is helping
to introduce not only free software to Mongolia through install
fests but GNOME as well based on the popular Ubuntu distribution.
Dulmandakh, organized the first Mongolian installfest that had
more than 800 people participating.  Dulmandakh will continue to
promote GNOME and GNU/Linux using the knowledge that he learns at
GUADEC to do so.

GUADEC will be held June 24 - June 30th in Viloniva, Spain.