14 DAY TRIAL // A few minutes ago, Kenny Duffus proudly announced that the 2011 Desktop Summit conference will be held on August, in Berlin, Germany. Desktop Summit will definitely be the biggest free software desktop event of 2011, and it will be co-hosted by the KDE and GNOME projects.
Once again, the GUADEC (GNOME Users’ And Developers’ European Conference) and Akademy (KDE community annual world summit) events will be co-located next year in Berlin.
"We are looking forward to the Desktop Summit. GUADEC is our community's opportunity to meet in person and we are glad to be able to have our KDE colleagues as part of our conversations and our celebrations. [...] Berlin is a great city with a very strong free software community. C-base, KDE and GNOME will make a great team!" said Stormy Peters, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation.
The Desktop Summit event is a very good opportunity for members of the free software desktop community to share knowledge, address well-known issues and socialize. Over 1,000 contributors from 50+ countries are expected at the highly anticipated conference, held next year in Berlin, Germany.
"Berlin is a fantastic city with strong ties to both the KDE and GNOME communities as well as free software in general. [...] The KDE community is excited to meet again with the GNOME community to hold the second Desktop Summit there. This is going to be one of the main free software events of the year 2011." said Cornelius Schumacher, President of KDE e.V.
In addition to the KDE and GNOME development community members, at the Desktop Summit 2011 conference are expected lots of participants in the entire FLOSS community, from organizations and companies, to local projects.
More details about the upcoming Desktop Summit 2011 event will be announced in the next days, on its official website.
