registration press release draft



- Please let me know any factual inaccuracies.
- I assumed here that the pre-conference would be the GNU Hacker's Meeting, but now I think it's the Open Desktop Day??
- The last 2 paragraphs were from a previous GNOME press release, I thought they were good descriptors, is it ok to use? (I tried to contact Paul Allen of Rise PR, who I believe is GNOME's press release firm in the UK, but no answer.)

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Press release:

May 11, 2010: Public registration has officially opened for the 2010 GNOME GUADEC conference. Organisers of GUADEC - the GNOME Users And Developers European Conference - anticipate a wide range of speakers and participants to once again make this conference an highly informative and community-building event. The secure registration and payment site can be found at: <a href="" https://register.guadec.org/”>https://register.guadec.org/</a>

GUADEC 2010 will be hosted in The Hague, The Netherlands, from July 26 - 30. Now in its 11th year, GUADEC is one of the largest annual meetings of open source software developers, GNOME foundation leaders, individuals, governments and businesses from around the world. Speakers include leading names from the GNOME, UNIX, Linux and Open Source software communities.

The GUADEC coordination team is excited to start accepting registrations. "We're still dotting i's on the conference programme," said Koen Martens, GAUDEC 2010 managing coordinator, "but we're happy to have the attendee section of the site up and running. Opening registration is a big mile-stone for us.” Registration pricing will be set at four different levels. Everyone interested in attending GUADEC 2010 is encouraged to sign-up on the level they are most comfortable with.

Registration levels are:
 - Professional Level: €250, includes a free t-shirt and access to the professional’s reception.
 - Normal Level: €100, includes a free t-shirt.
 - GNOME Member Level: €75, includes a free t-shirt. (For more information on becoming a GNOME member, please see <a href="" http://foundation.gnome.org/membership/”>this site. (gnome.org)</a>
 - Hobbyist/Student Level: No fee

The revenues raised will be used to fund travel grants for those contributors from the global community who might otherwise have not been able to attend due to financial reasons. As registrations begin, monitoring of the number of participants will allow organisors to properly gauge the size and scope of the conference to better predict venue, network and catering needs.

Martens said that registration is open for the pre-conference as well. The pre-conference on July 24th and 25th includes <a href="" http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2010/denhaag/”>a 2-day GNU Hackers' Meeting. (gnu.org)</a>

The GNOME desktop is used by millions of people around the world. GNOME is a standard part of all leading GNU/Linux and Unix distributions, and is popular with both large existing corporate deployments and millions of small business and home users worldwide.

Composed of hundreds of volunteer developers and industry-leading companies, the GNOME Foundation is an organization committed to supporting the advancement of GNOME. 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.

More information about GUADEC, GNOME and the GNOME Foundation can be found at www.guadec.org, www.gnome.org and foundation.gnome.org.
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