Hi all, As some of you may have noticed, the Desktop Summit dates, format and location were announced today [1] - and we have an updated website online [2].
Three things are worth singing out to GUADEC attendees as significant differences from previous events. First, the conference will be held later than usual, on 6-12 August. This was a constraint imposed by the university, related to German university schedules (students have classes in Germany right up to mid July). This week was the earliest we could hold the conference. Second is the conference format. We will be following roughly the same format as we did in Gran Canaria - three days of organised talks and keynotes, which will be held in four big lecture halls, and four days of BOFs, hackfests and related activities. The foundation annual general meeting is provisionally scheduled for Tuesday 9th, and teams will be invited to schedule BOFs, team meetings, hackfests and related attendee-generated content on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - there are a selection of rooms of varying sizes available for sessions every day. The conference closing will thus be on Monday evening, before the BOF days, since we expect that some people will decide to leave before the end of the week. Third, following a lot of feedback after Gran Canaria, the desktop summit will have one papers committee made up of people from GNOME and KDE this year. There will be one call for content, and the content committee will decide on the presentations to accept together. This should help overcome the impression that many people had last year that Gran Canaria felt like two different conferences held in the same place at the same time, but with no real interaction between the communities. We also welcome proposals from outside KDE & GNOME this year. Personally, I would love to see application developers building on the platform giving us feedback on what they need, *and* core OS developers whose work *we* build on come along to hear what we're missing. This the Free Desktop Conference - it seems like a natural place for people from Xorg, freedesktop.org and desktop applications to gather and address common problems. I've been told reliably that the board is planning on publishing the feedback they received from attendees from this year's GUADEC soon - and we have definitely taken this into account so far when planning the next year's conference, within the constraints which we have. I'm looking forward to a great conference! Cheers, Dave. [1] http://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2010/10/06/kde-and-gnome-desktop-summit-2011-from-6-to-12-august/ [2] http://www.desktopsummit.org -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list