{"id":70,"date":"2008-06-19T11:41:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T10:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andresgomez.org\/2008\/06\/19\/a-coruna-proposed-to-hold-guadec-and-akademy-2009\/"},"modified":"2011-08-09T09:34:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T08:34:53","slug":"a-coruna-proposed-to-hold-guadec-and-akademy-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andresgomez.org\/es\/2008\/06\/19\/a-coruna-proposed-to-hold-guadec-and-akademy-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"A Coru\u00f1a proposed to hold GUADEC and aKademy 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

As this will be my first post at planet GNOME, first I would like to thank Jeff<\/a> for giving me a place between all of you, and I will introduce briefly myself.<\/p>\n

My name is Andres Gomez, I’ve been using free software for 8 years, and I\u2019m a free software developer since 2003, when I joined Igalia<\/a>. As most of my mates, I contributed to project Fisterra<\/a>, a free software framework for developing enterprise applications, and I’ve been lately involved in some projects related to Maemo<\/a> technologies.<\/p>\n

Now the interesting part of the post \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

As my mate Chema<\/a> has published recently in his blog<\/a>, people from GPUL<\/a>, Igalia<\/a> and University of A Coru\u00f1a<\/a> have presented a proposal to co-host GUADEC<\/a> and aKademy<\/a> next year in A Coru\u00f1a<\/a>. The intention was to show all the possibilities that our city and team have in order to organize such a great event to the community.<\/p>\n

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The proposal’s main idea is:\u201dWe want to organize a conference by community people for community people<\/strong>\u201c. Here, in A Coru\u00f1a, we have the facilities, a passionate team and a lot of ideas after attending several conferences and organizing lots of events (DudesConf 2008<\/a>, GUAdemy 2007<\/a>, Guadec-ES 2005<\/a>, …). We know how important the details are, as well as having second options in case the first one could eventually fail. The main goal is to invest a big effort in achieving that people can come here next year. Because of this, the main expense in our budget will go for helping people to attend the event through sponsoring as many people as possible. That will be feasible thanks to the contribution of the University and volunteers. They will provide, almost for free, all the basics needed to run these two conferences. Also, our regional government, Xunta de Galicia<\/a>, has an important commitment with this proposal and great confidence in our work at every level. So here it is the final proposal:<\/p>\n