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LinuxTag: GNOME Team distributed more than 1000 Ubuntu CDs to visitors

Submitted by murraycu on Mon, 2005-06-27 14:54. GNOME

Translated from the German original

GNOME Deutschland finished its visit to this years's LinuxTag in Karlsruhe with great success.

The ten-person exhibition team from Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, and Britain distributed over 1000 Ubuntu CDs to the visitors to the Linux event. Worldwide, there are now more than 1.5 million CDs with Ubuntu and GNOME in use.

In addition, the team at the exhibition stand provided more than 250 LinuxTag GNOME LiveCDs based on Ubuntu, which default to German and contain sample files. The CDs were created with an ADR CD Robot (adr-ag.de). The CD's .iso file will soon be available from www.gnome-ev.de for burning to CD.

A further highlight of the GNOME presence was the presentation of the new Nokia Internet Tablet which visitors could try out at the Nokia and GNOME stands. The PDA runs with a version of the GNOME Desktop.

In various talks as part of the programme, GNOME developers presented the "GNOME Office" meta project, and discussed the further development of the Linux Desktop.

In a members meeting after LinuxTag, the GNOME Deutschland foundation decided to build yet more on its Marketing and PR activities to futher encurage the Linux Business Desktop. The aim is to make GNOME even more popular in the German-speaking world (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).