OK. Here's my next try at it. I hope this is better than the last one. sri
-- Sri Ramkrishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Asia is the growing market in this century. The GNOME desktop is well positioned to take on this market with massive deployments in China and India representing over 150,000 desktops. There is a growing interest in pursuing the GNU/Linux desktop market in these countries and as more deployments ensue the interest will continue to mount. Exciting inroads have been made by Sun, Red Hat, and Novell in the asian market. Simon Phillips of Sun Microsystems, the primary person who negiotated the deal with the China's Department of Education will be attending and giving one of the many exciting keynote speeches at GUADEC. GUADEC is the primary conference of the GNOME Desktop project (http://www.gnome.org) traditionally held in Europe where developers, enthusiasts, users and businesses from around the world gather to exchange and work on new ideas to advanced not only GNOME but the GNU/Linux desktop in general. GUADEC an excellent venue for the press to learn about what companies like Novell and Red Hat are doing to capture the desktop market in Asia. Novell has committed it's team from India to particpate in GUADEC. GUADEC refreshes the bond between developers and provides an avenue for users and businesses to provide feedback to the GNOME project. GUADEC also attracts participants from sister projects like the KDE project pursuing collaborating goals to standardize the GNU/Linux desktop. Participants as far off as Mongolia are making the trek to Vilanova, Spain the current site of GUADEC. Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar is helping to introduce not only free software to Mongolia through install fests but GNOME as well based on the popular Ubuntu distribution. Dulmandakh, organized the first Mongolian installfest that had more than 800 people participating. Dulmandakh will continue to promote GNOME and GNU/Linux using the knowledge that he learns at GUADEC to do so. GUADEC will be held June 24 - June 30th in Viloniva, Spain.
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