[guadec-list] GUADEC Press Release (english version revised)

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

I have revised the GUADEC Press Release.  Some of the changes were
extensive, but I'm hoping it's an improvement.  Otherwise we can go with
the original one.  Consider it an alternative to the one we already
have.

sri

-- 
Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>

GUADEC 2006
Press Release
Final Draft - version 2

Be part of GNOME - GUADEC 2006 in Catalonia, Spain

Over 500 Developers from across the globe will be attending GUADEC
- GNOME Users And Developers European Conference in Vilanova i la
Geltrú to advance the Free Software desktop project GNOME.

DATE of June 2006

The 7th GUADEC Conference will be help from the 24th through the 30th
of June in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia/Spain.  In co-operation
with the office Telecommunications and Information Society office of
the Catalan government; GUADEC will be one of the leading developer
conferences on Free and Open Source software this year.

GUADEC -- The future of GNOME

Opening keynote will be presented by Jeff Waugh, an international
figure in Free and Open Source software who works on community
outreach for Canonical, the company behind GNU/Linux distribution
Ubuntu.

Jeff Waugh is an active member of the Free Software community,
holding positions such as Chariman of Annodex Foundation (2006),
Director of GNOME foundation Board (2003-2004, 2006), GNOME
Release Manager (2001-2005), committee member (2000-2001),
and president of the Sydney Linux Users' Group (2002-2003),
and member of the linux.conf.au 2001 organising team.  in 2005,
he won the Google/O'Reilly Open Source award for Best Evangelist.
Waugh is a card carrying member of Linux Australia.

Keynotes presented at GUADEC 2006 will range from topics like
"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'.

GUADEC -- The GNOME Software Family

GUADEC is the gathering of GNOME developers from around the world.
More than 30 GNOME related software projects will be represented
ranging from advanced software frameworks like Mono, a .NET
framework, Maemo, Nokia's embedded device software for the N770,
Gstreamer the common audio backend for Free Software Desktops, and
Telepathy, a new VOIP/Instant Messaging framework to innovative
software projects like F-Spot photo managing software, Gossip
instant messaing client, Beagle and indexing engine, and Ekiga
videoconferencing software.

GNOME is used across the world, and so GUADEC will be hosting
teams who translate GNOME to the languages of the world so anyone
will be able to use GNOME in their native language.  These teams not
only represent the languages they translate, but the countries they 
come from.

GUADEC -- A Social Gathering

GUADEC is about fun.  Developers who have worked hard on GNOME
will have a chance to reward each other for the work they have put
in over the year.  It's also a time to rapidly exchange ideas and
feedback with GNOME users and developers from other Free Software
projects.  Developers and Users are coming from all over the world,
some are from familiar places like Germany, France, United States,
and others are coming as far flung as China, Mongolia, Nigeria,
Columbia, and Chile.  GUADEC boasts one of the most complete global
representations today.

GUADEC  -- The GNOME desktop

GUADEC is a unique forum that highlights the capabilities and
direction of GNOME -- the user environment for desktop computers,
networked servers, and portable Internet devices.  GUADEC features
meaningful discussions on the future direction of Free Software and
Open Source development both for the desktop and the Free Software
movement as a whole.

Sponsored by leading companies of the Free Software world, GUADEC is
an important platform for the interchange of ideas and communication
between communities and ISVs supporting the GNOME desktop.  The first
GUADEC was started in Paris, in June 2000.  Today, GUADEC is one
of major conferences for GNOME and Free Software developers to
work together.

GUADEC -- The GNOME Sponsors

GNOME devleopment is sponsored by many companies.  Nokia
(opensource.nokia.com and maemo.org) is working hard on GNOME through
development of the Maemo platform for the 770 Internet Tablet.
Gold sponor, 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 sponor 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 the leading supporters to open source software around
the globe.

The silver sponsors 2006 are Imendio (imendio.com), Igalia
(igalia.com), Fluendo (fluendo.com), Google (google.com), OpenHand
(o-hand.com), Red Hat (redhat.com), Intel (intel.com), the Open
Source project of autonomous region Extremadura gnuLinEx.org
(gnulinex.org) and Novell (novell.com).

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Interesting weblinks:

The GUADEC Pressroom
http://guadec.org/Guadec2006/pressRoom

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, GUADEC Marketing
qgil gnome org
Mobile +34-6 75 33 73 15

For spanish journalists:
Javier Vazquez, Igalia, S. L., Coruña-Vigo (Galicia) 
jvazquez igila com
Mobile +34-6 15 84 52 73