[guadec-list] GUADEC 2008 to be held in Istanbul, Turkey

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

Behdad, can you fill in the blanks, and this will be good to go, once
the guadec.expectnation.com instance is pointed at by www.guadec.org (or
modify the URLs) and the keynote page is up (Baris, any ETA on that?).

GUADEC 2008 to be held in Istanbul, Turkey
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The annual GNOME User and Developer European Conference will be held in
Istanbul, Turkey from the 7th to the 12th of July 2008. The conference
will bring together the GNOME development community and key
personalities from business and government, to discuss the future
direction of the GNOME project.

Now in its 9th year, the conference has grown every year from its humble
beginnings to become a fixture in the calendar of the leading lights of
the free software desktop development community, and an important
meeting place between industry and community. This year, over 500 people
are expected to gather in Turkey for the conference, whose theme will be
"Designing the User Interface for Freedom".

Among the keynote speakers who will be present at the conference are
Matt Webb, co-author of "Mind Hacks", and a leading user experience
designer, Eric Sink, a renowned blogger and software development
business entrepreneur, and Leisa Reichelt, a London-based expert in
interaction design and user experience research.

The call for participation in the conference is now open. The program
chair this year, Behdad Esfahbod, hopes that the conference will bring
... [XXX what does Behdad hope that the conference will bring? Is there
a theme for this year's conference?]

The Call for Participation for the conference has been released, and as
with last year, the conference will have three tracks:
 - Catwalk: Showcasing the best and most exciting applications that the
GNOME community has to offer
 - Topaz: Identifying the diamonds in te rough that will form the basis
for the next generation of the free software desktop
 - Tangle: Community and governance issues, and tough technical issues,
will be considered, attacked and resolved


The GUADEC website (http://www.guadec.org) has more information about
the conference.

Call for papers: http://www.guadec.org/cfp/1

Presentation of keynote speakers: http://www.guadec.org/keynotes/1


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Dave Neary
dneary free fr