[guadec-list] GUADEC Day 3

[William from Texas <williamfromtexas gmail com>]

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GUADEC Day 3

July 20, The Hague - With nearly 400 participants getting together to discuss current and 
future GNOME projects, GUADEC 2010 saw its final day filled with topics 
addressing diversity and connectivity. Several of the sessions 
specifically emphasised the multi-cultural aspect of the GNOME project, 
with presentations by Emily Chen (GNOME in Asia), Jonh Wendell (GNOME in Brazil), Andre Klapper (Identifying software projects and translation teams in need) and Silvia Miranda (Quality translations in GNOME). Other talks again dealt with the idea of a GNOME desktop integrating with web services, including Adrien Bustany (Is your GNOME connected? Unifying the online and the offline using smantic services), Rob Bradford (Embracing the Web - Integrating web services within GNOME), and Zeeshan Ali and Lennart Poettering (Bringing the Network back into GNOME technologies).  

 Fabrice Mous delivered the day's keynote address with his talk entitled Changing the Desktop Game.
 Mr Maus talked about the need to spread open source software into 
government and the public sector. Linux projects should be taken 
seriously by government officials, and he cited some examples of 
expensive open source software projects that failed due to user habits. 
User habits are the biggest challenge facing Linux on the desktop, he 
said, though the spread of Linux to mobile phones and other internet 
devices is helping to change the game.  

 The final closing 
ceremonies thanked the GUADEC 2010 team for their efforts putting the 
event together. An announcement was also made about the location for 
GUADEC 2011 - - Berlin! Any and all feedback is welcome to the GNOME 
Board: board gnome org 

 All
 in all, this year's GUADEC was an amazing event. With about 400 
participants, a pre-conference involving high-level government 
officials, two days of GNOME training sessions, 60 speaking sessions, 
Lightning Talks, discussion groups and workshops, and the collaboration 
and joys of meeting fellow hackers IRL, 2010 has been a large success by
 all measures. 

 The GUADEC networking staff will be 
disassembling the network after the conference closing ceremony, all are
 encouraged to lend a hand (there may be some free pizza for you!). 
Disassembly will begin around 18:00. 

 The unofficial GUADEC afterparty will be at the Revelation hackerspace. All GNOME hackers are welcome to lounge and chill out! Map is here. 

 See you in Berlin! 

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