[guadec-list] Press Release GUADEC 2006

[Thomas Keup <thomas keup gnome-de org>]

Hi Quim, hi Javier,
hello all:

Here is my first draft for a press release to GUADEC 2006. Please give your respond directly to Quim or Javier, so they can finish the release distribute them to spanish and international/u.s. media.

Best regards from Berlin, Germany

Thomas

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GUADEC 2006
Press Release
1st Draft


Be part of GNOME 3.0 ? The GUADEC 2006

500 Developers at GNOME Conference in Catalonia, Spain


xx of June 2006

The 7th GUADEC will be held from 24th to 30th of June at the Campus of Mediterranean University in Vilanova, Catalonia/Spain. In co-operation with the Ministry of Universities, Research and Information Society of the Catalan government the week will be one of the leading developers conferences around Free and Open Source software this year.

The official program will be split into three phases: The Approach Weekend (24th & 25th), GUADEC Core (26th to 28th) and After Hours (29th and 30th). In addition, the Core days will have three simultaneous tracks, called Showcase, Topaz (GNOME 3.0) and Tangle. 

GUADEC ? One week of  future

Opening keynote will be presented by Jeff Waugh. The international leading developer is working on Ubuntu business and community development for Canonical. Waugh is an active member of the FOSS community, holding positions such as director of the GNOME Foundation Board ('03-'05), president of the Sydney Linux User's Group ('02-'04), and member of the linux.conf.au 2001 organizing team. 

Following keynotes at GUADEC 2006 concering about ?Creating Passionate Users?, ?Freedom: Reality and Illusion?, ?GNOME ? How much faster??, ?Big GNOME Deployments: the GnuLinEx and Guadalinex Use Cases? and ? Free Software at Sun Microsystems?.

The core slots are reporting about GNOME with Bluetooth and using Voice over IP with Ekiga (mobile solutions), organizing digital pictures with F-Spot and searching documents with Beagle (desktop solutions), the new GTK+ printing API, GTK+ 2.0 and databases with GLOME (backend solutions). The complete agenda can be found under guadec.org/GUADEC2006/schedule/Core.

GUADEC ? The whole GNOME family

GNOME Conference will be the get together of developers around GNOME planet. Guys from these projects and teams will be in Vilanova: Beagle, Cairo, Epiphany, Evince, Evolution, Eye of GNOME, F-Spot, Gaim, Gazpacho, GEdit, Gigax, Gimp, GLib, GLOME, GNOME Art, Gnome Dashboard, DBus Diva, GNOME-DB, GNOME Nettool, GNOME Panel, GNOME Translation Project, GNOME VFS, Gossip, GStreamer, GTK+ and PyGTK, GTuring, GUADLAC, Java-GNOME, Maemo platform and Nokia, Novell Linux Desktop, Mono network, Pango, Telepathy and Ubuntu, 

GUADEC ? From all over the world

European delegations for GUADEC are applied from Check Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Letonia, Norway, Poland, Spain and Turkey. African developers will be arriving from Nigeria and South Africa. Americans are coming from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Mexico and the U. S. Also representatives are registered from Australia and New Zealand, China, India and Mongolia.

Up to 500 people will be guest at the Political University of Catalonia (UPC) in Vilanova, 45 km south of Barcelona. Most of them are living together in bungalows at Vilanova Park (live.gnome.org/GUADEC2006/GNOMEVillage). About 50 of them will be sponsored participants of GUADEC Committee and The GNOME Foundation.

GUADEC ? The GNOME Conference 

GUADEC is a unique forum that highlighs the capabilities and direction of GNOME ? the user environment for desktop computers, networked servers and portable Internet devices. GUADEC features meaningful discussions of the future direction of Free Software and Open Source development in general.

Sponsored  by leading companies of the Free Software world, the GNOME Conference is an important platform for interchange of ideas and communication between communities and companies supporting the GNOME desktop and applications. Started in 1998 in Paris, today GUADEC is one of the most interesting places for developers around the world to work together.

GUADEC ? The GNOME Sponsors

Cornerstone sponsor Nokia (opensource.nokia.com) is working hard on GNOME developments through the Maemo platform implemented in the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. Gold sponsor OSDL (osdl.org) is a non-profit organization that provides state-of-the-art computing and testing facilities available to developers around the world.

Gold sponsor Sun Microsystems (sun.com/software/opensource/) is a significant participant and contributor to industry-changing open source projects including GNOME. Gold sponsor HP (opensource.hp.com) is one of leading supporter to open source software around the globe. 

The silver sponsors 2006 are Imendio (imendio.com), IGALIA (igalia.com), Fluendo (fluendo.com), Google (google.com), OpenedHand (o-hand.com), Red Hat (redhat.com), Intel (intel.com), gnuLinEx.org (gnulinex.org) and Novell (novell.com). 

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Interessting weblinks:

The GNOME Conference
www.guadec.org

The GNOME Project
www.gnome.org

The GNOME Foundation
http://foundation.gnome.org/

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GUADEC ? Press Services

For international/U.S. journalists:
Quim Gil ??? 
qgil gnome org
Mobile 

For spanish journalists:
Javier Vazquez, Igalia, S. L., Coruña-Vigo (Galicia) 
jvazquez igila com
Mobiles xxx

For german journalists:
Thomas Keup, GNOME Deutschland e. V.
Thomas keup gnome-de org
Mobil +49-171-4 18 00 84