--- GUADEC Day 3
July 20, The Hague - With nearly 400 participants getting together to discuss current and future GNOME projects, GUADEC 2010 saw its final day filled with topics addressing diversity and connectivity. Several of the sessions specifically emphasised the multi-cultural aspect of the GNOME project, with presentations by Emily Chen (GNOME in Asia), Jonh Wendell (GNOME in Brazil), Andre Klapper (Identifying software projects and translation teams in need) and Silvia Miranda (Quality translations in GNOME). Other talks again dealt with the idea of a GNOME desktop integrating with web services, including Adrien Bustany (Is your GNOME connected? Unifying the online and the offline using smantic services), Rob Bradford (Embracing the Web - Integrating web services within GNOME), and Zeeshan Ali and Lennart Poettering (Bringing the Network back into GNOME technologies). Fabrice Mous delivered the day's keynote address with his talk entitled Changing the Desktop Game. Mr Maus talked about the need to spread open source software into government and the public sector. Linux projects should be taken seriously by government officials, and he cited some examples of expensive open source software projects that failed due to user habits. User habits are the biggest challenge facing Linux on the desktop, he said, though the spread of Linux to mobile phones and other internet devices is helping to change the game. The final closing ceremonies thanked the GUADEC 2010 team for their efforts putting the event together. An announcement was also made about the location for GUADEC 2011 - - Berlin! Any and all feedback is welcome to the GNOME Board: [email protected] All in all, this year's GUADEC was an amazing event. With about 400 participants, a pre-conference involving high-level government officials, two days of GNOME training sessions, 60 speaking sessions, Lightning Talks, discussion groups and workshops, and the collaboration and joys of meeting fellow hackers IRL, 2010 has been a large success by all measures. The GUADEC networking staff will be disassembling the network after the conference closing ceremony, all are encouraged to lend a hand (there may be some free pizza for you!). Disassembly will begin around 18:00. The unofficial GUADEC afterparty will be at the Revelation hackerspace. All GNOME hackers are welcome to lounge and chill out! Map is here.<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Johanna+Westerdijkplein+75,+2521+EN+Den+Haag,+Netherlands+%28De+Haagse+Hogeschool+%28hoofdvestiging%29%29&daddr=52.067425,4.327004+to:Binckhorstlaan+172+2516+BG+Den+Haag&hl=en&geocode=FX96GgMd4PpBACF6HXWAqJQZnQ%3B%3BFZKFGgMdJCxCACm1ROVxArfFRzHqZ-H0wsnOUw&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=16&via=1&dirflg=w&sll=52.067464,4.329536&sspn=0.006477,0.01929&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=16> See you in Berlin! Send GUADEC an email: [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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