GUADEC papers
How time has flown! It’s the 10th, and there are only 2 days left to get paper abstracts in for GUADEC 2005 (29-31 May, 2005, Stuttgart, for those who haven’t been paying attention).
I would love to see a beginner-heavy conference, with lots of the API people trying to show off their wares with practical sessions – we have already got a promise of an abstract for a practical GTK# tutorial, it’d be nice to have something for glade and libglade (say with ruby or python to get something nice up & running in an hour or two) – in fact, I would love to see 4 or 5 tutorial sessions in the hack-center with real audience participation.
There will also be lots of space for poster sessions, BOFs and brainstorming sessions – the emphasis is on inclusion, and having the conference be fun and exciting. We’ve already planned flash talks, and will soon be opening invitations for them – so even if you only have a small thing to share, take your 2 minutes, and over-flow to a poster or BOF to discuss things in more depth.
People should leave GUADEC on a high with a big buzz saying “those guys *ROCK*, I love GNOME!” – we’re not talking about appealing to the LCD, but about showing people the power of the developer platform, and the coolness of the desktop platform.
So come on in, step up to the plate, and share your passion and your experience, GUADEC is for solving the problems that are annoying you and recruiting new hackers to help.
Oh – closing date is the 12th. Abstracts, with a photo and a short bio, should go to guadec-papers@gnome.org before Wednesday night – there might be a short extension, but don’t count on it.
