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Vincent Untz | 6 Aug 17:10
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Free Desktop Communities come together at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit

This year's Gran Canaria Desktop Summit represented the first time the
GNOME and KDE communities have co-located their annual conferences in
the same location. 852 free software advocates from 46 countries
gathered together last week to discuss and enhance the free desktop
experience at the first ever Gran Canaria Desktop Summit.

The summit accomplished its goal of increasing co-operation between
GNOME and KDE to improve the Free Desktop experience. Throughout the
conference there were many examples of  successful collaboration
including shared technologies, community co-operation and growth of the
local free software community.

GNOME and KDE plan to join together again in future years to make sure
they are working effectively together to share technologies and advance
the free desktop. The cooperation and conversations that began between
the KDE and GNOME communities will continue into the future and in
events like hackfests throughout the year, but next year the conferences
will be hosted separately. GUADEC and Akademy hope to see both GNOME and
KDE developers at their events as their communities work more closely
together on joint technologies.

More details in the press release:
   http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/2009-08-desktop-summit-conclusion.html

Vincent

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Srinivasa Ragavan | 25 Aug 05:08
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Call for hosts for GUADEC 2010

Hello,

The GNOME Foundation invites proposals to host GUADEC, the annual GNOME
conference, during the Summer of 2010.  GUADEC is the biggest gathering
of GNOME users and developers and includes a three-day conference, the
annual general meeting of the members of the GNOME Foundation, and a
week of coding, meeting, and discussing.

For those of you who would like to host the next GUADEC in 2010 you are hereby
invited to write a formal invitation to the board of the GNOME Foundation at
board <at> gnome.org .Deadline for the proposals is October 10, 2009.

Key points which proposals should consider, and which will be taken into
account when deciding among candidates, are:

 * Local community support for hosting the conference
 * Venue, cheap housing and nice hotels, and the distance between them
 * The availability and cost of travel from major European cities
 * The budget for infrastructure and facilities required to hold the conference
 * The availability of restaurants or the organization of catering
on-site, cost of food/beer.
 * Local industry and government support

See the GUADEC check list [1] and provide informations for Country, City,
Accomodation and Travel.

Check out the call-for-bids and the bids from previous GUADECs for more
information. Or just feel free to contact board <at> gnome.org .

The conference will require availability of facilities for one week,
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Srinivasa Ragavan | 24 Aug 06:09
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Officers of the Foundation

Hello friends,

Board members discussed and finalized the people for the officers of
the GNOME foundation. I have listed them below.

Vincent Untz - Chairman
Srinivasa Ragavan - Vice Chairman
Germán Póo-Caamaño - Treasurer
Lucas Rocha - Vice Treasurer
Brian Cameron - Secretary

-Srini.
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Stormy Peters | 24 Aug 18:20
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The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software (with GNOME Foundation support)

http://www.fsf.org/news/summit-on-women-in-free-software

The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on Women in Free
Software to discuss how the free software community can cultivate and
increase participation by women in free software's development and
activism communities.

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Monday, August 24th, 2009 -- On
September 19, 2009, Deborah Nicholson of the Free Software Foundation
(FSF), Stormy Peters of the GNOME Foundation and Hillary Rettig, free
software activist and author of The Lifelong Activist, will gather a
small group of women activists, thinkers, and scholars to identify
strategies and initiatives that will foster sustained participation by
women in the movement.

As organizations representing an international movement to bring free
software and freedom to everyone, the FSF and GNOME Foundation are
seeking practical initiatives to increase the participation of women
in the movement. Historically, women have been underrepresented in the
technology and free software communities, and despite recent increases
in the adoption of free software, the situation has not significantly
improved. Deborah Nicholson said, "At the summit, we will discuss
existing entry points, why women don't always feel invited, and when
they do, why they don't always stay. Individual projects have found
ways to make women welcome and we will look at some of these examples
and discuss how to build on those successes. We will also identify new
strategies and tactics to help create a balanced community."

Stormy Peters said, "The Women in Free Software mini-summit will be an
opportunity to discuss how the FSF and the GNOME Foundation can work
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Brian Cameron | 22 Aug 00:57
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Meeting Minutes Published - August 6, 2009


The meeting minutes for the July 15th and July 23rd board meetings
is now public.  Refer here:

   http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPublic/Minutes/20090806

Highlights:

* Zeitgeist hackfest in Bolanzo, City of Largo hackfest, and GNOME.Asia
   Summit planning is underway.
* Consider getting involved with the Festival Internacional de Software
   Libre 2009 Chiapas Mexico.

Also note that I sent the announcement of the meeting minutes for
July 3, 15, 23rd meetings to foundation-list, but not to
foundation-announce.  Apologies.  You can refer here to see past
minutes:

   http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoardPublic/Minutes

-- text of the latest minutes follows --

Minutes for Meeting of August 6, 2009

Next Meeting

August 20, 2009

Attendance
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