Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Call for Participation

The Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, co-hosting GUADEC, the GNOME Conference,
and Akademy, the KDE conference, invite you to participate in the inaugural
Desktop Summit, from July 4th to July 10th 2009, in Las Palmas, Gran
Canaria, Spain.

This year's conference represents the first time that Akademy and GUADEC
will be co-hosted, the core theme of the conference is "the Free Software
desktop". The GUADEC planners invite talks from developers on core
technologies which enable new ground breaking functionality, application
developers building cross-desktop applications for Linux, and GNOME
visionaries plotting the future of the computing user interface. We also
welcome presentations by people from GNOME related projects, users of GNOME
technologies and from our partner projects.

We are asking for four types of submissions:
- 30 minutes presentations on GNOME topics
- 30 minutes presentations on cross-desktop topics
- 5 minutes lightning talks
- BOF and workgroup proposals

We invite people to submit abstracts for 30 minute presentations about GNOME
or cross-desktop topics to guadec-papers@gnome.org, including your name,
biographical information, and a photo suitable for the web, and a title and
description of your presentation, of under 400 words.

We also welcome informal proposals for 5 minute lightening talks to be held
on Saturday July 5th and proposals for BOFs and workgroups which will be
held from Tuesday July 7th until Friday July 10th. Proposals for lightning
talks and BOFs will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis, in the
limits of available space. Please send your proposals to
guadec-papers@gnome.org.

The deadline for submissions is Friday April 10th, 2009.

Successful candidates will be selected and notified by the organizing
committee by April 24th, 2009.

More information at http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/callforpapers
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