Hello.
My fiancée Ege and I would like to organise the next GNU Hackers'
Meeting in the city of İzmir, on the Aegean coast of Turkey.
Turkey accepts visitors from a wide range of countries without requiring
visas while still being easy to reach from Europe: by having the meeting
there we intend to welcome some new participants, in addition to the
regulars.
Ege comes from that region and will arrange the venue; I will deal
with what for some reason we have always called the «remote» part of the
work, which is to say handle talk proposals and abstracts.
The meeting will take place in October, which is the best choice for
that region: the weather will be milder, and the prices lower. The main
presentation will still happen over a weekend, as in most of the
previous editions. Concerning the venue we are in contact with a hotel
where the participants would also have the option to sleep -- cheaper
alternatives being also available in the vicinity.
We will send updates later as we learn more details. We think that
everything will be finalised by the Summer; in the mean time we would
like to sample your interest. Please understand that this is still
tentative, and we cannot give guarantees; still, if you are interested,
you may want to keep your October weekends free.
About talk proposals, we accept technical presentations about GNU and
other free software projects. A web page will be prepared later; for
the time being if you have an idea for a talk you can write to me in
private.
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