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GU4DEC Live On The Web 85

Posted by timothy from the no-credit-card-necessary dept.
Programmers and others interested in the GNOME desktop environment gather annually for an event called GU4DEC, the GNOME Users and Developers European Conference. This year, there's extensive live coverage of GU4DEC (currently in progress, at Trinity College, Dublin) on the web, including a growing online photo album, audio recordings and video streams, and presentation materials. (The schedule is handy if you want to follow along.) I hope there's a similar sort of integrated documenation / dissemination from the upcoming KDE developers' conference at the Czech Republic's Nove Hrady.
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  • With a name like GU4DEC (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I can't believe I'm not there... it sounds awesome. Drink a beer for me.

  • Just gotta be there (Score:4, Funny)

    by TopShelf ( 92521 ) on Wednesday June 18, 2003 @10:27AM (#6233793) Homepage Journal
    A conference in Dublin live on the web??? Only if they can provide a virtual Guinness...

  • obTom Lehrer reference (Score:3, Funny)

    by JUSTONEMORELATTE ( 584508 ) on Wednesday June 18, 2003 @10:27AM (#6233811) Homepage
    The 4 is silent, you see.

    --
    • those crazy technology-folk with their letter-number swapping! I know its cool and "edgy" because my 12 year old cousin does it. He says its cool to me an "3733t 40L H4X0R! LOLOL ROTFLMAO OMG!!!!" -Whatever that means.

  • Trinity College WTF? (Score:4, Funny)

    by Graspee_Leemoor ( 302316 ) on Wednesday June 18, 2003 @10:29AM (#6233828) Homepage Journal
    Trinity College Dublin.

    WTF is up with this? I thought it was bad enough when people called every machine on their LAN after a Matrix character!

    You can bet your ass my kids won't be going to Neo College, Dublin or Morpheus College, Dublin.

    graspee

  • GNOME in Ireland? (Score:4, Funny)

    by WIAKywbfatw ( 307557 ) on Wednesday June 18, 2003 @10:29AM (#6233835) Journal
    Q: What do you call a GNOME in Ireland?

    A: A leprechaun.

    Methinks that the conference's local profile might benefit from a name change.
    • Methinks that the conference's local profile might benefit from a name change.

      Only if there was an equivalent Irish desktop effort called leprechaun, which would have a themed GUI-nness and WhIsky-Fi networking, shamrocks for the icons and dialogue boxes with [ Awright ] [ Nah Thanks ], [ Bugger it ] as the options.

  • What's with GU4DEC? (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    What's with that acronym? I could understand GUADEC, or GUDEC, but where does that "4" come from in GU4DEC?

    Surely they aren't trying to b3 l33t!

  • How do you get a job like that? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by airrage ( 514164 ) on Wednesday June 18, 2003 @10:32AM (#6233869) Homepage Journal
    I hope this doesn't get modded down, but you know there all these conferences, trade shows, demos, etc., and exactly what kind of technical job do you have if you get to go to all these?

    I mean if I told my boss I was going to take a week off and go to Electronics Expo in Vegas he'd have a fit. Sounds like a great conference, but who get's to attend?

    Who, I ask, are all these people attending conferences? Are they some sort of neo-efficient coders? Any one have any ideas?

    Signed,
    Chained-to-Cubicle.
    • Well, many people who attend such things work with the technology, and are sent to the thing by their company. For this kind of conference, where the 'enthusiast factor' is fairly high, people can also be students (school's out by now), or interested hobbyists taking a few days of their vacation to go.

      For academic conferences, just about everybody is a researcher, many (if not most) have a paper to present, and their university usually pays at least part of the cost. And if they don't, well, publishing is

    • Re:How do you get a job like that? (Score:4, Insightful)

      by IamTheRealMike ( 537420 ) on Wednesday June 18, 2003 @10:42AM (#6233986)
      I mean if I told my boss I was going to take a week off and go to Electronics Expo in Vegas he'd have a fit. Sounds like a great conference, but who get's to attend?

      Well, people who work for slightly more understanding bosses :) When I went to FOSDEM it took place over a weekend, so I took a day off to recover and went along. I'm hardly a neo-efficient coder (which is what, exactly), but it was great fun regardless.

      If you look at the people going, it's basically:

      a) Professional GNOME hackers from Red Hat, Ximian, Sun etc

      b) Volunteers who have taken time off/combined it with a holiday to Dublin.

      So you don't actually need any job at all, just a bit of spare cash and an interest.

    • Hell, I'm here as I use GTKMM at work, and there is a GTKMM talk.

      From my point of view the actual talk was useless (as it was an introduction, and I knew everything), but actually meeting Murray (the gtkmm maintainer) is invaluable.

      Somehow we managed to get the company to pay for flights and accomodation, but I didn't expect that...

  • Little known fact: (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    The Czech Republic locale mentioned in the article is at the furthest point from the center. Founded in 810AD by a group of merchants ill-equipped with a sense of direction seeking to sell their wares in Prague, they decided that they had enough already and settled in the first spot they found with water.
  • Ah, yes. GUADEC. Where you can find out 101 different uses for your regular garden GNOME.

    I wonder if the GNOME Foundation will be designing new platforms for their Network Object Model Environment.
  • "integrated documenation / dissemination from the upcoming"

    Hopefully, someone is working on a spell checker for Slashdot too. Not quite GNOMEY, but hey, it's linux.

  • On the use of proprietary video streaming (Score:5, Interesting)

    by ciaran_o_riordan ( 662132 ) on Wednesday June 18, 2003 @11:11AM (#6234266) Homepage
    I emailed the organisers about the use of proprietary video formats for streaming video. Here's the response I got:

    I fully agree with you, Ciaran. I think in this case it may have been a matter of under-staffing (or under-volunteerism) to organize the event.

    I've searched the foundation-list mailinglist and have found no discussion about the use of this format.

    In short: the use of this video format was not a decision of the GNOME Foundation.

    Free Software has proven that it is a viable alternative to proprietary systems. We have come too far to now ask people to compromise on the beliefs that have gotten us to where we are today.

    I hope future decisions are given a public discussion.

    Ciaran O'Riordan
    • In short: then it should not be done.

      On http://live.guadec.org/audiovideo.html I can read:

      Live 150kps Real Video Stream from Burke Theatre

      I'm sorry, but I feel it is extremely awkward that a project aimed at making people use a Free Software desktop promotes using non-free software.
      I can understand the motivation and how it may have been well intended, but this should not continue.
      At least some formats have Free Software that can interpretate them, even if they are patent encumbered in som
  • There's a discussion [gnome.org] that took place a few months ago on the GU4DEC mailing list [gnome.org], where you can learn a little about how the event was planned. There's also more info in this press release [gnome.org].
  • scratching the itch...
    Europe? WTF?
    Conference ?
    OK, I'll be there tomorrow, just let me catch my old Dublin, TX train.

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