GUADEC Public Registration is Open!

[William from Texas <williamfromtexas gmail com>]

Hey All

We're happy to announce the opening of public registration for GUADEC 2010 - go tell your friends! 
Here is the registration site: https://register.guadec.org/

I would appreciate if you could circulate this news around, maybe re-post to your local Linux mailing lists, link to it on your blog or follow us on twitter/identi.ca.

Thanks, and see you all in July!

William
GUADEC comms team
http://www.guadec.org
http://twitter.com/guadec
http://identi.ca/guadec

Read the full announcement below.
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GUADEC 2010 Registration Opens for Participants

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 a highly
informative and community-building event. The secure registration and
payment site can be found at: https://register.guadec.org/

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.” 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.

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.
 - Professional Level: €250, includes a free t-shirt and access to a professionals' reception.
 - Normal Level: €100, includes a free t-shirt.
 -
GNOME Foundation Member Level: €75, includes a free t-shirt. (For more
information on becoming a GNOME foundation member, please see this site. (gnome.org)
 - 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.

Two pre-conference events are also scheduled to take place:
 - The first is a two-day GNU Hackers' Meeting (GHM)
(gnu.org) of GNU maintainers and contributors, to be held on July 24 -
25. The event is being coordinated by the GNU, and registration will be
announced on the GHM newsfeed.

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The second is the official pre-conference GNOME Open Desktop Day on
July 26, a meeting of interested parties and stakeholders discussing
collaboration between government institutions, software communities and
business. Strategies and background of successful and up-and-coming
European projects will be used as examples. Registration for this event
is possible from the GUADEC registration page.

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
organisation that provides financial, organisational and legal support
to the GNOME project and helps determine its vision and roadmap.

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.

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

Contact GUADEC or follow developments on identi.ca and twitter.