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GUADEC, the GNOME Users And Developers European Conference, is an annual developer conference, whose prime topic is the development of the
GNOME desktop environment
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and its underlying base software, such as
GTK,
GStreamer, etc.
The first GUADEC was organised by Mathieu Lacage as a one-off event and attracted around seventy GNOME contributors.
It was the first time many of them had met in person. The conference was judged a success, and has been held annually in different locations since then, organised by local volunteers. The size has increased five-fold since the first conference.
Conference history
See also
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List of free-software events
Libre Application Summit
References
External links
Official web siteMore information about GUADEC on the GNOME wiki
Free-software conferences
GNOME
Recurring events established in 2000
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