Re: [guadec-list] www.gnome.org news item about GUADEC CfP

[Chema Casanova <jmcasanova igalia com>]

El lun, 27-02-2012 a las 17:07 -0500, Karen Sandler escribió:
> I made some minor changes (mostly fixing typos), and readied the post for
> publication on the site. The draft is up and waiting, so we can just push
> it live tomorrow.

It's GUADEC 2012 for the title :)

> thanks!
> karen
> 
> GUADEC 2011 Call for Participation
> 
> February 28, 2012: A Coruña, Spain. A public Call for Participation has
> officially opened for the 2012 GNOME Users And Developers European
> Conference (GUADEC) conference. Grupo de Programadores y Usuarios de Linux
> (GPUL), this year's organizers of the event, anticipate a wide range of
> speakers and hundreds of participants to once again make this conference a
> highly informative and community-building event.
> 
> You can read the press release and register in the paper submission system
> here: http://www.guadec.org/cfp
> 
> GUADEC 2012 will be hosted in A Coruña, Spain, from July 26 - 29. Now in
> its 13th year, GUADEC is one of the largest annual meetings of free and
> open source software developers, GNOME foundation leaders, individuals,
> governments and businesses from around the world. Speakers include leading
> names from the GNOME, UNIX, GNU/Linux and Free and Open Source software.
> With additional days from July 30 - August 1 allocated for hackfests
> and meetings. A Coruña has already seen several successful
> GNOME-related hackfests over the past three years, and GUADEC will be held
> in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of A Coruña
> (http://www.fic.udc.es).
> 
> The 2011 release of GNOME 3 has significantly refreshed development of the
> GNOME project. Topics are of particular interest for GUADEC 2012 include:
> 
> <ul>
> <li>Design of the core user experience</li>
> <li>Writing applications for GNOME 3</li>
> <li>Integration of web life into the desktop</li>
> <li>Adapting GNOME to new types of devices</li>
> <li>Improvements to and unification of desktop plumbing</li>
> <li>Outreach to new contributors</li>
> <li>Organization and governance of the project</li>
> <li>GNOME’s 15th birthday</li>
> </ul>
> 
> Submissions that do not fit into these categories are also welcome,
> provided that they are of relevance, or inspiring to the GNOME community.
> 
> Access the secure online submission system directly via gpul.org:
> https://www.gpul.org/indico/abstractSubmission.py?confId=0
> 
> The Call for Participation for GUADEC 2012 will follow these dates:
> 
> <ul>
> <li>April 14: Deadline for submission of abstracts</li>
> <li>Presentations will be reviewed by the program committee</li>
> <li>April 28: Notification of speakers</li>
> <li>End of April: Call for Lightening talks</li>
> <li>July 26 - 29: GUADEC 2012 in A Coruña, Spain</li>
> <li>July 30 - August 1: hackfests and meetings</li>
> </ul>
> 
> If you are interested in organizing a workshop, a BoF session or a project
> room during this second half of GUADEC, please wait for a later separate
> call for participation.
> 
> The program committee will consist of the following members: Andre
> Klapper, Allan Day (Red Hat), Ryan Lortie (Codethink), Michael Meeks
> (SUSE), Lennart Poettering (Red Hat), Christian Schaller (Collabora) and
> Vincent Untz (SUSE). Email the committee at: guadec-papers gnome org
> 
> About the GNOME Foundation
> 
> Composed of hundreds of volunteer developers and industry-leading
> companies, the GNOME Foundation is an organization committed to
> supporting the advancement of the GNOME project. The foundation is a
> member directed, non-profit organization that provides financial,
> organizational and legal support to the GNOME project and helps determine
> its vision and roadmap.
> 
> GNOME, the default graphical environment in many major GNU/Linux and Unix
> systems, has millions of users around the world and the support of large
> enterprises and small business. Holding its main tenets as freedom,
> accessibility and usability, GNOME is well positioned to play a key role
> in future FLOSS projects.
> 
> About GUADEC
> 
> GUADEC is the GNOME Users And Developers' European Conference. Held
> annually since 2000 in cities around Europe, GUADEC is the largest
> congress of GNOME users, developers, artists, translators, foundation
> leaders, individuals, governments and businesses in the world.
> Presentations are given by business leaders, government spokespeople,
> volunteers and motivated developers on a range of topics including the
> future directions of the GNOME Project, Unix, GNU/Linux, Free and Open
> Source software, new features, exciting ideas and modern development
> techniques.
> 
> More information about GUADEC, GNOME and the GNOME Foundation can be found
> at www.guadec.org, www.gnome.org and foundation.gnome.org.
> 
> Follow GUADEC developments: identi.ca/GUADEC & twitter.com/GUADEC
> For general questions please contact the GUADEC team: guadec-list gnome org
> 
> 
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