GNOME.Asia Summit 2018 Call for Papers is now open

GNOME.Asia Summit 2018 invites proposals for presentations at the conference.

GNOME.Asia Summit is the featured annual GNOME conference in Asia. It focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop, but also covers applications and the platform development tools. The summit brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide a forum for users, developers, foundation leaders, governments and businesses to discuss the present technology and future developments.

picture from Chi-Hung Lin – https://www.flickr.com/photos/92585929@N06/27325096293, CC BY-SA 2.0

The conference will be co-hosted with COSCUP 2018 which will be held in Taipei, Taiwan from 2018-08-11 until 2018-08-12. We welcome proposals by newcomers and experienced speakers alike.

Please submit yours at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKnffsc_Ke2ZEP3fInJkAwEzXFUM24HZ7dYYluoGLmHMQjZw/viewform

Chinese Version(local language) 中文版（本地語言）請參見：https://openingsource.org/2003/zh-tw/

Important Information

The deadline:
- Submission: 25th of May
- Notification of acceptance: 2018-06-01 until 2018-06-05
- Full programme published: Early July
Conference:
- Conference date: Aug 11th – 12th , 2018
- Venue: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Contributing to GNOME

Latest developments
Writing applications for GNOME 3
UI design
QA and testing
Accessibility
Human Interface Engineering (Icons and Graphic Design)
Marketing/Engagement
Asia success stories / Local GNOME Projects
GNOME and Education
FOSS outreach programs, including Google Summer of Code

Developing GNOME on mobile devices (smart phones, tablets)
Developing GNOME on embedded systems or open hardware

Contributing to Linux and F/LOSS

Linux kernel and development
The development and promotion of open-source operating systems
About Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, and other distributions
The development and promotion of other open-source projects

Open Source Enlightenment and Related Story

The Knowledge and Spirit of Open Source
Open Source stories of your own
How to optimize the process and improve efficiency with the help of open-source tools
How to engage non-technical clightning talksontributors in Open Source Projects
How to engage more female contributors in Open Source Projects

Emerging Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
DevOps with AI
Deep Learning
AR & VR
Big Data
Distributed systems
Open Source DevOps

We are also interested in other topics related to Free/Libre and Open Source Software which are not listed above.

There will be an opportunity for speakers and GNOME Foundation members to request sponsorship by the GNOME Foundation. Please submit applications to the GNOME Travel Committee https://wiki.gnome.org/Travel .

A standard session will be scheduled for 45 mins (35 mins talk + 10 mins Q&A). The session could be a technical talk, panel discussion, or BOF. If you need more time or additional resources, feel free to get in touch with the organizing team.

For those who would like to participate but are not sure if they’d like to do a full talk, we have shorter lightning talks. These are a 10 minutes presentation to demonstrate your work or promote an interesting topic. These talks will be grouped together in a single session.

Please provide a short abstract of your proposal (under 150 words). Include your name, biographical information, a photo suitable for the web, a title, and a description of your presentation. The reviewing team will evaluate the entries based on the submitted abstracts and available time by following the schedule.

Submission deadline: 2018-05-20

Confirmation of paper acceptance: 2018-06-01 until 2018-06-05

All interested contributors are highly encouraged to send in talks.

The GNOME.Asia 2018 Team

*More information about GNOME Asia Summit 2018 is available at: https://2018.gnome.asia/

Call for GUADEC 2019 Bid Proposals

The GNOME Foundation would like to invite bids for hosting GUADEC 2019. GUADEC is the biggest gathering of GNOME users and developers, which takes place in Europe every year, and you could make it happen next year!

If you are interested in submitting a bid to host GUADEC 2019 in your city, please send an intention to bid by end of the day on Sunday, May 6th. Bids will be due on June 3rd, and you can talk to the Foundation Board and previous GUADEC organizers to find out more about what is involved.

Your bid should demonstrate that:

The location is easily accessible by plane or train
You have a motivated local team with a few core members, preferably with experience in event organization
A good venue is available to host the event
There are affordable accommodations and places to eat
There is local industry and government support

Deadlines

Intention to bid: end of the day Sunday, May 6th
Bid submission: end of the day Sunday, June 3rd

Intentions to bid and bid submissions should be made by e-mail to foundation-announce@gnome.org and board-list@gnome.org. Both intentions and bids should also be added to: https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2019/Bids.

Bids from previous years are available for reference. While organizing a conference such as GUADEC is a huge undertaking, people from the GNOME community have been there before you and will be there to help.

You can find more information at: https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/HowTo, including an overview of the sorts of things you should include in the proposal.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch with the Foundation board at board-list@gnome.org.

GNOME.Asia Summit 2018 to be held in Taipei, Taiwan

The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce that the upcoming GNOME.Asia Summit 2018 will be hosted in Taipei, Taiwan between Aug 11 – Aug 12, followed by a local tour on Aug 13.

The 2018 edition of the summit will take place at the National University of Science and Technology of Taiwan (commonly known as Taiwan Tech), and will be co-hosted with COSCUP (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters), a major local open source conference held annually in Taipei since 2006.

The GNOME Foundation is excited about co-hosting this years summit with COSCUP as it will foster a stronger tie between the local open source community in Taiwan and GNOME, and has hopes of attracting wider interest and contributors.

Taiwan is a fantastic location for GNOME.Asia 2018 as the city is a major hub of technology and innovation. Taipei is home to a very active free and open source community, with weekly meetups, monthly hackfests, and over 50 annual conferences for various free and open source projects. Taiwan Tech itself was established as the first higher education institution of its kind within Taiwan’s technical and vocational education system.

Apart from the great setting for our free software conference, Taipei City holds many cultural landmarks and internationally renowned architecture that will surely delight GNOME.Asia 2018 participants. For example, Taipei 101 (formerly called the Taipei World Financial Center), is among the world’s tallest buildings, and Taiwan’s National Theater and National Concert Hall are some of the first modern performing arts facilities to be established in Asia. With the added benefit of having world-famous hot springs and night markets, there’s sure to be something of interest for everyone.

This year, the GNOME.Asia Summit will have two devoted track sessions that will be held separately from the COSCUP tracks in order to provide dedicated space for the GNOME community to discuss relevant topics.

Organizers also hope to provide a space for GNOME activities like Birds of a Feather sessions (BoFs) and hackfests, in order to encourage more contribution by GNOME.Asia participants into core areas of GNOME. The GNOME.Asia Summit 2018 website will be released in the upcoming weeks with more information about the event. In the meantime, any questions about the conference can be sent to asia-summit-list@gnome.org, and interested sponsors can send queries to gnome-asia-committee-list@gnome.org.

We also encourage those interested in the summit to follow @GNOMEAsia on Twitter, or our main @GNOME social media accounts, for more up-to-date information on various activities and key dates for the conference.

System76 joins GNOME Foundation Advisory Board

ORINDA, CA – April 11th, 2018

The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce that System76, purveyor of Linux powered desktops and laptops for over 12 years, has joined the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board.
The Advisory Board is a body of stakeholder organizations and companies who support the GNOME Project by providing funding and expert consultation. The board includes Google, Canonical, and the Free Software Foundation, among others.

“Less than a year ago, we launched Pop!_OS, and the community that’s grown up around it has been fantastic and continues to evolve. We’re excited to join the GNOME Foundation Advisory board and continue our engagement with the wider free software community.” said, Louisa Bisio, Marketing Director at System76

System76 brings expertise as a hardware OEM with STEM customers in enterprise, education and government, as well as consumers from the Linux fanbase.

“System76’s long-term ambition to see free software grow is highly commendable, and we’re extremely pleased that they’re coming onboard to help support the Foundation and the community,” said Neil McGovern, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation.

The non-profit GNOME Foundation is an independent organization committed to supporting the advancement of the GNOME Project and software freedom. It provides financial, organizational and legal support to the GNOME Project and helps determine its vision and roadmap. GNOME software is used by millions of people around the world.
More information about GNOME and the GNOME Foundation can be found at www.gnome.org

GUADEC 2018 Call for Participation

GUADEC, the GNOME User and Developer European Conference, is GNOME’s main annual conference. This year it is being held in Almería, Spain, and the call for papers is now open until April 29, 2018.

This is a great opportunity to share your ideas with the GNOME project, as well as the wider open source community. You don’t have to be an existing member of the GNOME project to submit a talk: if you have something interesting to say about software or technology, we want to hear from you! If you’re brand new to speaking, this is also a great opportunity to get started on your public speaking career — we welcome newcomers and provide a friendly audience.

Subjects that we are particularly interested in include:

Design of user and developer experiences
Operating system plumbing
Application development and deployment
Use of GNOME technologies outside the desktop
Outreach to new contributors
Project organisation and governance
Privacy and security
Developments in open source/Free Software
The GNOME developer experience

However, if there is another subject that you would like to talk about, we would still love to receive your submission. Talks can be either 25 or 40 minutes in length, which includes time for questions.

Please visit the proposals page on the GUADEC website for more information about submitting a talk idea and for other relevant conference deadlines. In case of questions regarding the call for talks, please contact the papers team at guadec-papers@gnome org. For general questions regarding the conference, please consult the GUADEC website or contact the local GUADEC organizing team at guadec-organization@gnome.org.