[guadec-list] GUADEC Day 1 recap

[William from Texas <williamfromtexas gmail com>]

Dear All,

I have posted a short recap of GUADEC Day 1 to our Announcements. Full text below!
See you tomorrow ~~

http://guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010/announcement/view/23

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GUADEC Day 1

July 28, The Hague -  GUADEC 2010, the annual GNOME User and Developer European 
Conference, kicked off with a keynote speech by Mozilla lawyer Luis 
Villa. Mr Villa encouraged GNOME to embrace the web, saying that in the 
struggle between web and desktop, the web has come out on top. Why? 
Because the web is a powerful, reliable, cheap, available and a 
constantly improving application platform. This should be a wake-up call
 for developers of the GNOME desktop suite to design their applications 
to web standards, including using HTML 5, CSS-like and Java coding when 
building or rewriting code.  

 Mr Villa said that GNOME's 
cultural values are winning while GNOME code needs to focus on 
integration with the Internet. He emphasized that community, problem 
solving abilities and freedom are clear strengths of GNOME, while the 
development culture should adapt to the new challenges of a web-centric 
computing model. 

 Another important presentation was given by 
Vincent Untz, member of the GNOME 3 release team. Mr Untz announced that
 the target release for GNOME 3 has been set for March 2011, with a beta
 release in September 2010. Concern was raised by some developers in the
 audience that work would be difficult leading up to both the v3.0-beta 
and simultaneous v2.32 September release. There has been much 
advancement in the 8 years since the release of  GNOME 2, and v3.0 has 
been highly anticipated for some time already. "Isn't it a bit late?" 
was another concern that he addressed, saying that as a full platform 
revamp there was no reason to rush the release.  

 One 
significant feature of the conference this year is the webstreaming of all 3 
session rooms. GUADEC sponsor Flumotion implemented the setup using WebM, and 
GUADEC 2010 marks the first major  event in the world to use this technology. The streams can be viewed directly from the GUADEC 
homepage, or by pasting the below links into your WebM-compatible media 
player. See this compatibility chart for more information. (gnome.org)
 * Room 1 (Paris): http://live1.guadec.stream.flumotion.com/guadec/live1.webm.m3u
 * Room 2 (Copenhagen): http://live2.guadec.stream.flumotion.com/guadec/live2.webm.m3u
 * Room 3 (Seville): http://live3.guadec.stream.flumotion.com/guadec/live3.webm.m3u
 

 All in all, the day was busy with a flood of information and large 
numbers of excited hackers. Day 2 promises to be even better! Check the schedule to see what talks you will want to attend. 

 Don't forget about the Canonical Party at 20:00 at Le Paris tonight. Map is here. 

 Tomorrow will be the Collabora Beach BBQ Party at 19:00 at the Beach 
Company. You can find more information at the registration desk! 

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