[guadec-list] GUADEC Day 2

[William from Texas <williamfromtexas gmail com>]

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GUADEC, Day 2

July 29, The Hague - GUADEC was in full swing today as 20 session speakers and various discussion 
groups presented throughout the day. Many morning sessions delved into 
technical detail. Rob Bradford's 5 things every GNOME hacker should know was a success (and he even had 6 tips to share!), and John Palmieri reinforced keynote thoughts from yesterday with his talk The future is _javascript_. The Google Summer of Code Student Lightning Talks drew an energetic crowd, and Stormy Peters gave us advice on GNOME Foundation: Getting things done. 

 After lunch, technologist and digital rights advocate Danny O'Brien delivered his keynote speech entitled Where you don't want to be: How a free desktop can help (and hinder) free speech across the world.
 Mr O'Brien called the desktop "the heart of trust" at the center of the
 user's control, and said that it must be protected. After describing 
the threat from state-level and organized crime regimes, he gave 
examples of how technology is being use to track, spy on and censor 
citizens around the world. Mr O'Brien said that in the future these 
problems will become more prevalent as they trickle down in level and 
scale, but that simple, ubiquitous encryption is "low hanging fruit". 

 The afternoon also saw talks on mobile operating systems and the upcoming GNOME 3, as well as a session by Thorsten Sick on Malware threats to a Linux desktop. The GNOME Foundation Annual General Meeting (AGM) finished the day, with an introduction of newly elected Board Members and updates from committee leaders on the state of Foundation activities. 

 Don't forget about the Collabora Beach BBQ Party, tonight at 19:00 at the Beach Company. Map here. 

 Still one more day to go ~ see you there! Check the program to see who's talking tomorrow. 

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