[dot] Guademy 2007 Event Report

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From: Antonio Larrosa <larrosa at kde.org>
Dept: drinking-beer-together
Date: Tuesday 27/Mar/2007, @15:58

Guademy 2007 Event Report
=========================

   The first Guademy [http://www.guademy.org/] event finished yesterday
at the university of A Coruña, Spain. Organized by the GPUL
[http://www.gpul.org/] (Grupo de Programadores y Usuarios de Linux), the
Linux User Group of A Coruña, it was an event which brought together
people from the GNOME [http://gnome.org/] and KDE [http://kde.org/] camp
(thus the combination of "GUADEC" [http://guadec.org/] and "aKademy"
[http://akademy.kde.org/] that forms the name of the event). Read on for
a short report of the event.
   The Guademy started on the 23rd of March and concluded on the 25th,
and was sponsored by Trolltech [http://www.trolltech.com] and Igalia
[http://www.igalia.com]. The three days of the conference were filled
with talks about KDE and GNOME as well as talks about co-operation
between the projects. For a first-hand account of the talks, you can
read Rafael Fernandez blog entries here [http://www.ereslibre.es/?p=20]
and here [http://www.ereslibre.es/?p=21].    After all the talks on
Friday, a Queimada [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queimada] was
organized, including the traditional chants that are sung while it's
prepared. In order to "release stress", the organizers of the event set
up a soccer match between KDE and GNOME developers for the Saturday
afternoon. The result of the game is better left unwritten :). On
Saturday night, we had a great dinner in a local restaurant, with lots
of really nice food from the local area and drinks that forced many
people miss the first talks on Sunday.  All the talks were recorded on
video and will be published on the conference site, at guademy.org
[http://www.guademy.org/] together with the slides and related
information.  We would like to thank the organizers, who did a great job
with the event - everyone had a great time. We hope it is the first of a
long series of Guademy co-operative events!