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Announcement From: GNOME.Asia

The GNOME.Asia Summit Vietnam Nov.20-22, 2009 in Ho-Chi-Minh-City is one of the top Free and Open Source Software events for developers, enterprises, officials and general users in Vietnam. Please join us!

- Learn more about GNOME, desktop applications and new mobile solutions.
- Take part in a FOSS course and get your own course certificate during the event.
- Participate in the install fest of new programs and make your computer faster and more secure.
- Meet us at the FOSS party and celebrate the fun of getting together with people from all over the world.
- Learn about job opportunities with global and local companies and get in touch with representatives.

The event brings together free and open source software projects from Asia and around the world. More than 500 multipliers from 10 countries are expected to participate in the summit, which is the first international community event of its kind in Vietnam.

Following the successful GNOME.Asia Summit 2008 in Beijing, China, this years summit will take place in the Quang Trung Software Park. The event will explore the future of the free and open source community in Asia and offer insights into new ideas of the GNOME community that will make not just GNOME itself but any gtk-based system including desktop environments like XFCE and LXDE even faster and easier to use.

Free and open source software projects already allow hundreds of millions of people to participate in the information society. Distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, Mandriva, OpenSolaris and many others implement GNOME and contribute to the desktop leading the market with virus resistant operating systems.

During the three day event there will be a variety of presentations, workshops and a free FOSS course, where successful participants will receive a certificate.

Companies will have the opportunity to present themselves, meet highly trained students and developers and engage in matchmaking with local projects and enterprises.

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