About GNOME.Asia Summit

GNOME.Asia Summit is an annual conference for GNOME users and developers in Asia. The event focuses primarily on the GNOME desktop and other devices that use GNOME, and also covers GNOME-based applications and GNOME development platform tools. It brings together the GNOME community in Asia to provide a forum for users, developers, foundation leaders, governments and businesses to discuss both the present technologies and future developments. GNOME.Asia Summit has been held in Beijing, China in 2008 and Ho-Chi-Minh City, Vietnam in 2009. The summit has been recognized as one of the top three FLOSS conferences in China in 2008 by the Chinese government and the biggest FLOSS conference in Vietnam in 2009 by the Vietnamese government.

Scope

The GNOME.Asia Summit will focus primarily on the GNOME desktop including both applications and development platform in addition to larger GNOME-related community in Asia.

Goals

Primary goals:

1. To promote GNOME technologies in Asia
2. To bring together users, developers and contributors to discuss a varied range of topics related to GNOME and its community in Asia,
3. To highlight new ideas and cutting edge developments,
4. To get new contributors and involve current contributors in a higher level,
5. To build a stronger GNOME community in Asia.

Also:

1. To have fun meeting friends sharing the same passion,
2. To create media awareness out of the usual circles,
3. To involve corporate partners and facilitate an approach to the community,
4. To spread Free and Open Source software in Asia.