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Desktop Summit 2011 to be held in Berlin, Germany
GNOME and KDE are teaming up again to host the 2011 Desktop Summit in Berlin, Germany. Due to the success of the 2009 Desktop Summit the projects will co-locate GUADEC and Akademy once again in August, 2011 for the largest free software desktop event ever. Read the press release.
GNOME 3.0 Rescheduled for March 2011 Release
The GNOME Release Team met at GUADEC on Monday, July 26 and discussed the state of readiness for GNOME 3.0. During these discussions the Release Team decided that GNOME 3.0 needed another release cycle to mature and have pushed back the GNOME 3.0 release to March 2011. Read the press release.
GUADEC is first event worldwide streamed in WebM by Flumotion and Fluendo
The GNOME Foundation is happy to announce that Flumotion is providing the live streaming in WebM of this year’s GUADEC conference, July 28-30. It is the first conference worldwide that will be streamed in the new WebM format, based on the VP8 codec, released as open source by Google last May. Read the press release.
Upcoming Events
GUADEC 2010
July 26-30, 2010, The Hague, NetherlandsAt the annual European GNOME Conference, GNOME hackers from all across the globe will gather and show off new cool technologies, party and discuss the future direction of the project.
The conference will lead up to the GNOME 3.0 release in September 2010. Keeping with the 3.0 theme, the three primary themes for GUADEC 2010 will be Government, education, and end users.
GNOME.Asia 2010
August 14-15 2010, Taipei, TaiwanFor this third edition of the GNOME.Asia Summit we're delighted to partner with the organizers of COSCUP (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters), the largest free and open source software (FLOSS) conference in Taiwan. The event will be held at the International Conference Hall, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica in Taipei (Taiwan).
With a tagline of “Open Web and Mobile Technologies” , it emphasizes the exciting development in these two areas as well as the GNOME desktop environment, and leverages the world-leading hardware industry in Taiwan.
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