I have revised the GUADEC Press Release. Some of the changes were extensive, but I'm hoping it's an improvement. Otherwise we can go with the original one. Consider it an alternative to the one we already have.
sri -- Sri Ramkrishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
GUADEC 2006 Press Release Final Draft - version 2 Be part of GNOME - GUADEC 2006 in Catalonia, Spain Over 500 Developers from across the globe will be attending GUADEC - GNOME Users And Developers European Conference in Vilanova i la Geltrú to advance the Free Software desktop project GNOME. DATE of June 2006 The 7th GUADEC Conference will be help from the 24th through the 30th of June in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia/Spain. In co-operation with the office Telecommunications and Information Society office of the Catalan government; GUADEC will be one of the leading developer conferences on Free and Open Source software this year. GUADEC -- The future of GNOME Opening keynote will be presented by Jeff Waugh, an international figure in Free and Open Source software who works on community outreach for Canonical, the company behind GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu. Jeff Waugh is an active member of the Free Software community, holding positions such as Chariman of Annodex Foundation (2006), Director of GNOME foundation Board (2003-2004, 2006), GNOME Release Manager (2001-2005), committee member (2000-2001), and president of the Sydney Linux Users' Group (2002-2003), and member of the linux.conf.au 2001 organising team. in 2005, he won the Google/O'Reilly Open Source award for Best Evangelist. Waugh is a card carrying member of Linux Australia. Keynotes presented at GUADEC 2006 will range from topics like "Creating Passionate Users', 'Freedom: Reality and Illusion', 'GNOME - How Much Faster?', 'Big GNOME Deployments: The GNuLinEx and Guadalinex Use Cases', and 'Free Software at Sun Microsystems'. GUADEC -- The GNOME Software Family GUADEC is the gathering of GNOME developers from around the world. More than 30 GNOME related software projects will be represented ranging from advanced software frameworks like Mono, a .NET framework, Maemo, Nokia's embedded device software for the N770, Gstreamer the common audio backend for Free Software Desktops, and Telepathy, a new VOIP/Instant Messaging framework to innovative software projects like F-Spot photo managing software, Gossip instant messaing client, Beagle and indexing engine, and Ekiga videoconferencing software. GNOME is used across the world, and so GUADEC will be hosting teams who translate GNOME to the languages of the world so anyone will be able to use GNOME in their native language. These teams not only represent the languages they translate, but the countries they come from. GUADEC -- A Social Gathering GUADEC is about fun. Developers who have worked hard on GNOME will have a chance to reward each other for the work they have put in over the year. It's also a time to rapidly exchange ideas and feedback with GNOME users and developers from other Free Software projects. Developers and Users are coming from all over the world, some are from familiar places like Germany, France, United States, and others are coming as far flung as China, Mongolia, Nigeria, Columbia, and Chile. GUADEC boasts one of the most complete global representations today. GUADEC -- The GNOME desktop GUADEC is a unique forum that highlights the capabilities and direction of GNOME -- the user environment for desktop computers, networked servers, and portable Internet devices. GUADEC features meaningful discussions on the future direction of Free Software and Open Source development both for the desktop and the Free Software movement as a whole. Sponsored by leading companies of the Free Software world, GUADEC is an important platform for the interchange of ideas and communication between communities and ISVs supporting the GNOME desktop. The first GUADEC was started in Paris, in June 2000. Today, GUADEC is one of major conferences for GNOME and Free Software developers to work together. GUADEC -- The GNOME Sponsors GNOME devleopment is sponsored by many companies. Nokia (opensource.nokia.com and maemo.org) is working hard on GNOME through development of the Maemo platform for the 770 Internet Tablet. Gold sponor, OSDL (osdl.org) is a non-profit organization that provides state-of-the-art computing and testing facilities available to developers around the world. Gold sponor Sun Microsystems (sun.com/software/opensource/) is a significant participant and contributor to industry-changing open source projects including GNOME. Gold sponsor HP (opensource.hp.com) is one of the leading supporters to open source software around the globe. The silver sponsors 2006 are Imendio (imendio.com), Igalia (igalia.com), Fluendo (fluendo.com), Google (google.com), OpenHand (o-hand.com), Red Hat (redhat.com), Intel (intel.com), the Open Source project of autonomous region Extremadura gnuLinEx.org (gnulinex.org) and Novell (novell.com). * * * Interesting weblinks: The GUADEC Pressroom http://guadec.org/Guadec2006/pressRoom The GNOME Conference www.guadec.org The GNOME Project www.gnome.org The GNOME Foundation http://foundation.gnome.org/ --- GUADEC – Press Services For international/U.S. journalists: Quim Gil, GUADEC Marketing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile +34-6 75 33 73 15 For spanish journalists: Javier Vazquez, Igalia, S. L., Coruña-Vigo (Galicia) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile +34-6 15 84 52 73
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