GUADEC 2008, 9th edition of GUADEC, will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Venue of GUADEC 2008 will be Bahcesehir University, with it's

GUADEC 2008 will be 6 days long and dates are between 7th of July and 12th of Jull, 2008.

Guadec 2007 is now over. Thank you to everyone who made it a great success. If you post your photos to flickr, please remember to tag them with guadec2007. Let us know what you thought of Guadec by e-mailing guadec-list@gnome.org. We look forward to seeing you all next year in Istanbul!

Registration for GUADEC 2007 is now open. Held annually in cities around Europe, GUADEC is the largest get together of GNOME users, developers, foundation leaders, individuals, governments and businesses in the world. In its 8th consecutive year; GUADEC 2007 is being held at the UCE Birmingham Conservatoire, in Birmingham, England, from Sunday 15th July, until Saturday 21st of July 2007.

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.

As people are aware, GUADEC is getting ever closer and we
haven't yet announced registration. Rest assured, once we have resolved
the current problems, registration will open before the end of May and
will continue right up until the start of GUADEC itself.

Registration fees will be as follows1:

£10 - Student/Concession
£30 - Standard
£140 - Professional (i.e. being paid by an employer to attend)

A 50% discount applies to standard and professional (but not to
concessions) if you are a foundation member. A 50% discount also applies
if you are a organisation that is sponsoring and requires additional
attendee passes.

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!

The Lightning Talks are now scheduled. Basically all of the proposed ones were selected, and we still need a few more!

The slot for lightning talks is an hour long. A talk lasts up to five minutes, which means there are potentially 12 in the hour. So far we have eight, so we need another four talks.

Do you have a pet project which you think is amazing? Tell all of GUADEC at the Lightning Talk session!

A preliminary schedule for the Core Days is now available. People who are scheduled for the Core days should be receiving an email shortly, and I hope to release a schedule for the Warm Up and After Hours tomorrow.

Sorry for the delay in producing this, I know for many people they needed to know as soon as possible. Basically, the submissions this year was both excellent and numerous, which made selection very hard!

The GUADEC team are pleased to announce the first gold sponsor for GUADEC 2007 is the Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation (previously OSDL) are renewing their sponsorship from last year, further enforcing their commitment to Open and Free software projects.

In another first, Canonical (Ubuntu) will be sponsoring GUADEC at silver level for the first time this year. Canonical/Ubuntu is a very big user of GNOME software, so we are particulary pleased that they are confirming their commitment to supporting the GNOME project.

The GUADEC team are happy to announce a further three more sponsors have been confirmed for this year's GUADEC. Intel and Fluendo are sponsoring at Silver level and renewing their sponsorship again from last year. Collabora are sponsoring GUADEC for the first time this year, also at silver level. A big thank you to all three of them for their support of GUADEC.