The 7th annual GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC) will bring developers, GNOME Foundation leaders, individuals, businesses and governments, as well as Free Software and Open Source software users together in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Catalonia - Spain).

GUADEC 2006 will be held from the 24th to the 30th of June 2006 in the Campus de la Mediterrà nia (see location). The week will be split into three phases: The Approach Weekend, GUADEC Core and After Hours (see schedule).

In addition, the Core days will have three simultaneous tracks:

• Showcase: migration success stories, big deployments, distros shipping GNOME, demonstrations of great GNOME applications.
• Topaz: GNOME 3.0 is our next big challenge. Visions, plans, alpha developments, theory, research and any ambitious, but realistic, ideas for the future are welcome.
• Tangle: complex issues that could benefit from face to face sessions to work out solutions. Someone (an individual or a team) should summarize the issues, the background, differences of opinion, possible alternatives, etc. Participative sessions, like BOFs but much bigger.