Re: GUADLAC - GNOME Users And Developers Latin American Conference
Hi Miguel Angel, Miguel Angel López Hernández wrote: It is my pleasure to inform you all that first GUADLAC (GNOME Users And Developers Latin American Conference) will be held in Veracruz, MX in the 1st quarter of 2009 (almost sure in march), therefore respectfully request the support of the GNOME Foundation and all the GNOME Community to help make it a success. I'm delighted to hear that you're re-launching the event, and I hope that it gets to completion this time! Keep the board, gugmasters-list and marketing-list informed - and if you have any problems I'd be glad to help you any way I can. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GUADLAC - GNOME Users And Developers Latin American Conference
On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 19:59 -0500, Miguel Angel López Hernández wrote: It is my pleasure to inform you all that first GUADLAC (GNOME Users And Developers Latin American Conference) will be held in Veracruz, MX in the 1st quarter of 2009 (almost sure in march), therefore respectfully request the support of the GNOME Foundation and all the GNOME Community to help make it a success. Yes, finally! This is great indeed. So, as it's forming up, we'll have major GNOME events all year round, all over the globe: - January, gnome.conf.au - March, GUADLAC - July, GUADEC - October, Boston Summit - October, GNOME.Asia Summit Umm, where's GNOME.Africa? behdad ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GUADLAC - GNOME Users And Developers Latin American Conference
Once upon a time two crazy Mexican hackers thinking about the way to make the ugly Linux interface more user friendly for the users so they devised a project called GNOME, That story isn't accurate. The purpose of GNOME was not about making things more user friendly, and it has nothing particularly to do with Linux. (Linux has no user interface.) The reason GNOME was started is that the GNU Project was looking for a way to counter the danger of the non-free library Qt which was at the base of KDE. We started two projects to deal with that: Harmony, which was a free replacement for Qt, and GNOME, which was a replacement for KDE too. (Nowadays Qt is free software, but that wasn't true in 1997.) So this is one project that was started expressly for the sake of freedom. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GUADLAC - GNOME Users And Developers Latin American Conference
Hi, 2008/7/9 Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Umm, where's GNOME.Africa? There's quite an active free software community in South Africa, particularly in the cities of Cape Town and Johannesburg. There are many user group activities on the social calendar. However, in my observation, there isn't really a big concentration of GNOME users. KDE is quite popular in Cape Town as well. It would be best to have generic free desktop summit where all stakeholders can participate. Some salient points: Africa is a developing region, and it would be good to discuss developmental/educational issues, rather than focusing only on the latest APIs or bling. Only a small percentage of us have access to a desktop PC. GNOME Mobile is extremely relevant. Africa has the fastest growing cellphone market in the world. Our growth rate is 64% compared to Asia's 38%. Practically everyone has a cellphone, regardless of social position, and you will struggle to participate in society unless you have one. (Standard disclaimers about broad assumptions apply). For the drivers of GNOME Mobile, there is a nice slide deck below on some issues. The author (my HCI lecturer) has also produced a good book on mobile interaction design, particularly in relation to developing countries. http://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~gaz/teach/hons/Lectures/(10)Culture.pdf http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mobile-Interaction-Design-Matt-Jones/dp/0470090898 Cheers, Vincent ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
