Just a quick note to mention we’ve corrected the GUADEC Hobbyist registration fees, as they were accidently twice what they should have been. Those people already registered and paid will recieve the appropriate refund. Anyway, this is good news as it’s now 50% cheaper than previously!
Also, even though registration will be open until the start of GUADEC, we can’t guarantee the freebies, t-shirts and other stuff (a.k.a. the swag) if you haven’t signed up before the 24th June.
The GUADEC team is pleased to announce the registration is now open for GUADEC 2007 and will stay open up until the event.
Please note, this form is for individuals who are not speaking nor requesting sponsorship. Registrations for groups (e.g. sponsors’ delegates), sponsored attendees and speakers will also be dealt with separately. If you have any queries or problems with the registration process, please contact info@guadec.org.
Karl has set up an Accommodation Collaboration page on the wiki so that people can organise rooms together for Guadec. The “official” recommended place to stay during Guadec is the Etap, which offers best value for money.
If you’d like to help out at GUADEC 2007, please add your name to the list on the Volunteer wiki page. The page also details some of the responsibilities we need covering during the event. Once we have a list of people willing to help, we can organise the schedule. One of the reasons for holding Guadec in the UK this year was to help foster a Gnome community here, so we’d especially like to hear from as many local people as possible!
We’re also still looking for anyone with particular skills in video/multimedia to oversee the recording of the event. Please let me know if you can help out with that aswell.
Please could people note that we are aiming to have all sponsored participants confirmed by May 31st. This means to process any applications we need to have them filed by the 24th May at the latest. If you think you will require sponsorship, please read sponsorship request page and fill in the requested details on the relevant form.
We will of course continue to process visa invitation letter requests up until the conference start date.
Information about the registration fees, as posted to the GUADEC mailing list, is available below and on the guadec.org website.
A bit rough around the edges, but it’s getting there! Many thanks to Denis and Jens for helping out with this. My current thoughts are:
A lot of people have been asking questions about GUADEC recently, so hopefully I can answer them here.
If you need a visa to travel to the UK and need a letter of invitation from us, please use the invitation letter request form. This will ensure your request is tracked properly, and we can collect the required details. Please read the travel information page if you are unsure about whether you require a visa, or want to know what information we need to send out an invitation letter.
We are fortunate again this year to have funds to sponsor a limited number of people to attend GUADEC. If you think you will not be able to afford travel and accommodation expenses, but would be able to make a valuable contribution to GUADEC, please consider requesting sponsorship. See the sponsored attendance page for details.
Lots of people have been asking where to stay during GUADEC, and unfortunately we can’t offer the excellent level of service provided last year. However, we are contacting hotels and hostels around Birmingham to find you the best possible rates and discounts. When this information is available it will be published on the website.
We are expecting registration to open very shortly. The process will be similar to last year, and we will be asking for a contribution depending on your participating status. Discounts will be available for foundation members, but we would urge you to consider making a further donation to support GUADEC and the GNOME project if you feel able.
In other news, the schedule is now nearly complete, and available on-line. Many thanks to Ross and the papers committee for their hard work in sorting this out.
The GUADEC team are pleased to announce another two sponors! Maemo are sponsoring at Gold level this year, and ACCESS are sponsoring for the first time at Silver level. Many thanks to both these organisation for their support of GUADEC this year!
Maemo provides an open source development platform for Nokia Internet Tablets and other Linux-based devices. It is build from components widely used in open desktop and mobile/embedded systems. The Maemo SDK contains the tools needed to create and port integrated applications, replicating the Internet Tablet environment in a PC. maemo.org offers official tutorials, documentation and repositories of unstable versions for testing. The website enables more services devoted to and maintained by the Maemo community: software catalog, project hosting, documentation wiki, Planet news plus mail and IRC support channels.
ACCESS, a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile and beyond-PC markets, is an active member of the open source community, and participates in the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative, the GNOME Foundation Advisory Board, the Linux Phone Standards Forum and the Linux Foundation.
With research and engineering centers throughout the world and an established culture that emphasizes and nurtures innovation and creativity, ACCESS delivers unique solutions that bring value to its customers and partners and which help make people’s lives easier, more productive, and more enjoyable.
Contacts 0.5 has been released! You can grab it from the brand new pimlico-project website.
Contacts is a small, lightweight addressbook that uses libebook, part of EDS. This is the same library that GNOME Evolution uses, so all contact data that exists in your Evolution addressbook is accessible via Contacts.