Changing the name of GUADEC

[David Neary <dneary free fr>]

I would like to propose changing the name of GUADEC. There are many 
reasons to do this, here are 5:

1. There is no link to GNOME in the name, or to being a conference
2. No-one knows what it means, which means the first question people ask 
isn't "when is it?" or "where is it?" or "who's going?" it's "what does 
it mean?"
3. It sucks.
4. Do we really want to limit it to Europe?
5. We have a great new name.

Davyd Madeley came up with GConf. This can be subtitles "The GNOME Users 
and Developers Conference" for the nostalgic, or just "the GNOME 
Conference". It's obvious that it's a conference, and GNOME's right 
there. The link is pretty obvious.

Some people might say that there are more important issues to deal with 
for GUADEC, like the content, the target audience, the direction, the 
site, all that. They're right. But this is one small thing we can make 
better, and finally correct an increasingly inaccurate pointless acronym.

Let's do it.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
bolsh gimp org
Lyon, France