Akademy Awards 2009 – Winners Announced
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more »World Robotic Sailing Championship Starts in Portugal
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more »Event report: Velocity 2009 State of the Web
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more »Gran Canaria: GNOME Zeitgeist Tracks What You've Done
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more »Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Akonadi for the Integrated Desktop
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more »Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Better Audio for Free Desktops
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more »Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: KDE and Gnome Formulate Common Goals
Jul 05, 2009On the first day of the joint developer conference on Gran Canaryia, representatives of the desktop projects Gnome and KDE formulated common goals for their future development.
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