GUADEC

GUADEC, formerly the GNOME Users And Developers European Conference, is an annual developer conference whose prime topic is the development of the GNOME desktop environment and its underlying base software such as GTK, GStreamer, etc.

GUADEC logo, used since 2013

Desktop Summit is the convergence of GUADEC and Akademy.

The first GUADEC was organised by Mathieu Lacage as a one-off event and attracted around seventy GNOME contributors.^[1] 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.

Conference history

Old GUADEC logo, used until 2012

Event	Date	Host city	Venue	Notes	Resources
2000	March 16–18, 2000 (2000-03-16 – 2000-03-18)	Paris, France	Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications		http://www.guadec.enst.fr/ (archive)
2001	April 6–8, 2001 (2001-04-06 – 2001-04-08)	Copenhagen, Denmark	Symbion Science Park		http://guadec.gnome.dk/ (archive)
2002	April 4–6, 2002 (2002-04-04 – 2002-04-06)	Seville, Spain	University of Seville		http://www.guadec.org/ (archive)
2003	June 16–18, 2003 (2003-06-16 – 2003-06-18)	Dublin, Ireland	Trinity College		http://2003.guadec.org/
2004	June 28–30, 2004 (2004-06-28 – 2004-06-30)	Kristiansand, Norway	University of Agder		http://2004.guadec.org/ https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2004
2005	May 29–31, 2005 (2005-05-29 – 2005-05-31)	Stuttgart, Germany	Haus der Wirtschaft		http://2005.guadec.org/ https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2005
2006	June 24–30, 2006 (2006-06-24 – 2006-06-30)	Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain			https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2006/Slides https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2006
2007	July 15–21, 2007 (2007-07-15 – 2007-07-21)	Birmingham, United Kingdom	Birmingham Conservatoire		https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2007/Slides https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2007
2008	7–12 July	Istanbul, Turkey	Bahçeşehir University		https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2008/Slides https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2008
2009	3–11 July	Gran Canaria, Spain	Auditorio Alfredo Kraus	"Gran Canaria Desktop Summit", co-located with KDE Akademy	https://web.archive.org/web/20100918123345/http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/ https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2009
2010	24–30 July	The Hague, Netherlands	Haagse Hogeschool		https://web.archive.org/web/20140308195809/http://2010.guadec.org/ https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2010
2011	6–12 August	Berlin, Germany	Humboldt University of Berlin	"Desktop Summit" No2, co-located with KDE Akademy	http://desktopsummit.org/ https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2011
2012	26 July – 1 August	A Coruña, Spain	University of A Coruña		http://2012.guadec.org/ https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2012
2013	1–8 August	Brno, Czech Republic	Brno University of Technology		http://videos.guadec.org/2013/ https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2013
2014	26 July – 1 August	Strasbourg, France	University of Strasbourg		https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2014
2015	7–12 August	Gothenburg, Sweden	Folkets Hus and IT University Gothenburg		https://2015.guadec.org
2016	15–17 August	Karlsruhe, Germany	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology		https://2016.guadec.org YouTube GUADEC 2016 playlist
2017	28 July – 2 August	Manchester, England	Manchester Metropolitan University		https://2017.guadec.org
2018	6–11 July	Almería, Spain	University of Almería		https://2018.guadec.org
2019	23–28 August	Thessaloniki, Greece	University of Macedonia		https://2019.guadec.org
2020	22–28 August	Online only			https://events.gnome.org/event/1/
2021	21–25 July	Online only			https://events.gnome.org/event/9/
2022	20–25 July	Guadalajara, Mexico and Online	Guadalajara Connectory		https://events.gnome.org/event/77/
2023	26–31 July	Riga, Latvia	University of Latvia Academic Center		https://events.gnome.org/event/101/
2024	19–24 July	Denver, United States	Tivoli Student Union		https://events.gnome.org/event/209/