I decided to go to GUADEC this year. My employer was also convinced it’s a good idea so I’m even getting sponsored for it. Traveling expenses, food, the hotel and the conference price for professional GNOME Foundation members are being payed by my employer. Thanks :-).
I’ve been to all FOSDEM‘s (Brussels). I’m hoping the GUADEC meeting will be even more technical. So even more programmers and even more interesting discussions and presentations from GNOME developers. If I checkout the planned schedule, I’m confident I’ll be satisfied.
One of my colleagues, Bjorn Monnens, will be joining me. He’s mainly interested in the Nokia, Eclipse and Java talks. He works as a Java and .NET developer for our GIS-group. So that’s probably his reasoning. He’s also getting interested in different opensource (free software) projects. So it isn’t a bad idea to invite him, right?
I’ll be visiting Keiths talk about fdo, Fresh and new evolution maintainer Harishs Eplugin talk, Owens talk about Cairo, Wims talk about GStreamer, Roberts fast and slick talk, Damiens talk about gnomemeeting (so that I can explain my girlfriend why it often doesn’t work), Jons talk about Beagle, Federicos talk about Mono, Thomas talk about Flumotion and probably many many more lightning talks and/or other non scheduled talks.