GUADEC, the GNOME Users And Developers European Conference, is an annual developer conference, whose prime topic is the development of the

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and its underlying base software, such as

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, 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.

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Official web site

More information about GUADEC on the GNOME wiki
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