Dear All, I have posted a short recap of GUADEC Day 1 to our Announcements. Full text below! See you tomorrow ~~
http://guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010/announcement/view/23 --- GUADEC Day 1 July 28, The Hague - GUADEC 2010, the annual GNOME User and Developer European Conference, kicked off with a keynote speech by Mozilla lawyer Luis Villa. Mr Villa encouraged GNOME to embrace the web, saying that in the struggle between web and desktop, the web has come out on top. Why? Because the web is a powerful, reliable, cheap, available and a constantly improving application platform. This should be a wake-up call for developers of the GNOME desktop suite to design their applications to web standards, including using HTML 5, CSS-like and Java coding when building or rewriting code. Mr Villa said that GNOME's cultural values are winning while GNOME code needs to focus on integration with the Internet. He emphasized that community, problem solving abilities and freedom are clear strengths of GNOME, while the development culture should adapt to the new challenges of a web-centric computing model. Another important presentation was given by Vincent Untz, member of the GNOME 3 release team. Mr Untz announced that the target release for GNOME 3 has been set for March 2011, with a beta release in September 2010. Concern was raised by some developers in the audience that work would be difficult leading up to both the v3.0-beta and simultaneous v2.32 September release. There has been much advancement in the 8 years since the release of GNOME 2, and v3.0 has been highly anticipated for some time already. "Isn't it a bit late?" was another concern that he addressed, saying that as a full platform revamp there was no reason to rush the release. One significant feature of the conference this year is the webstreaming of all 3 session rooms. GUADEC sponsor Flumotion implemented the setup using WebM, and GUADEC 2010 marks the first major event in the world to use this technology. The streams can be viewed directly from the GUADEC homepage, or by pasting the below links into your WebM-compatible media player. See this compatibility chart for more information. (gnome.org)<http://live.gnome.org/WebM> * Room 1 (Paris): http://live1.guadec.stream.flumotion.com/guadec/live1.webm.m3u * Room 2 (Copenhagen): http://live2.guadec.stream.flumotion.com/guadec/live2.webm.m3u<http://live1.guadec.stream.flumotion.com/guadec/live2.webm.m3u> * Room 3 (Seville): http://live3.guadec.stream.flumotion.com/guadec/live3.webm.m3u<http://live1.guadec.stream.flumotion.com/guadec/live3.webm.m3u> All in all, the day was busy with a flood of information and large numbers of excited hackers. Day 2 promises to be even better! Check the schedule<http://guadec.org/index.php/guadec/2010/schedConf/program>to see what talks you will want to attend. Don't forget about the Canonical Party at 20:00 at Le Paris tonight. Map is here.<http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=14180531786469925368&q=club+le+paris,+den+haag&hl=en&cd=1&ei=pylQTMafNIWW_QbhjaTvCw&sll=52.22062,4.581985&sspn=0.349964,0.753474&ie=UTF8&ll=52.42671,3.963318&spn=0,0&t=h&z=10&iwloc=A> Tomorrow will be the Collabora Beach BBQ Party at 19:00 at the Beach Company. You can find more information at the registration desk! Send GUADEC an email at [email protected] Join GUADEC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/GUADEC<http://twitter.com/guadec> Follow the GUADEC Twitter channel: http://twitter.com/#search?q=guadec GUADEC 2010 Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/guadec2010 ---
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