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Yesterday I reported to the LF members and Jim Zemlin at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit closing session that the State of the Linux Desktop is strong. Based on the work of many open source communities, 2008 continues to be a break out year for the Linux desktop. We had 8 distros talk about their 2008 accomplishments and preload agreements. The OEM hardware panel reached an inflection point where the vendors are encouraging component and chipset vendors to deliver open source drivers as part of their procurement processes. KDE and Gnome desktop environments continue to innovate on the desktop user experience and improve the usability of the Linux desktop for broader user segments. The joint sessions with the OpenPrinting, LSB, Mobile and Driver Backport workgroups demonstrated the strong partnerships we continue to build by working together under the auspices of the Linux Foundation. I particularly enjoyed many of the Lightning Talks.

I’d like to thank all of the 75 attendees that joined us at the Desktop Architects Meeting 5, especially my co-moderators Alan Clark and Guy Lunardi

I’ve posted the DAM-5 Proceedings in the wiki
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Desktop_April_Summit_2008_Agenda

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The Third Annual Desktop Linux Survey is now available in German. Many thanks to Jutta Kreyss from the IBM Linux Integration Center for assisting with the German translation.

German users are invited to take the LF Client Survey

Survey participants can review the aggregate German results after completing the survey.

We want survey feedback from the broadest number of organizations. The Linux Foundation Desktop Workgroup will use this information to prioritize the 2008 LF desktop initiatives. It also offers Linux ISVs, OEMs, the LF membership and broader community new insights into how businesses are adopting Linux and their Linux desktop requirements.

To be inclusive of the global Linux user communities, we are excited to offer the survey in additional languages. With our recent additions of Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, and now German translations, the Client survey is available in eight languages.

John Walicki

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Announcing that the Third Annual Desktop Linux Survey is now available
in Chinese.

Take survey

John Walicki
Desktop Linux Workgroup Chairman

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Announcing that the Third Annual Desktop Linux Survey is now available in Brazilian Portuguese as well.

Take Survey - Brazilian Portuguese

Have your say on what desktop Linux really needs! Please Join us in the Third Annual Desktop Linux Survey, at:

Survey start page

The survey will take only few minutes of your time, and your feedback is essential in helping us to focus our development efforts and accelerate the global adoption of Linux desktops and clients. For example, past surveys highlighted the need to address printing and wireless issues, so we set up focused workgroups and conferences to help developers and vendors work out common solutions to these requirements.

The survey is open now through November 30, 2007. Survey results will be made publicly available shortly after the close.

Thank you,
Linux Foundation Desktop Linux Workgroup

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Ed Trager has recently announced the 2007 Text Layout Summit in conjuction with aKademy in Glasgow (July 4-6).

Here’s the official 2007 TEXT LAYOUT SUMMIT ANNOUNCEMENT:

2007 TEXT LAYOUT SUMMIT AT AKADEMY JULY 4-6 IN GLASGOW

The 2007 Text Layout Summit is scheduled to take place in conjunction with aKademy 2007 this summer in Glasgow, Scotland. The dates for the 3-day Summit are Wednesday July 4th through Friday, July 6th which coincide with the aKademy’s scheduled “BOF” sessions and coding days.

The 2007 Text Layout Summit Wiki pages are started at:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/TextLayout — General Info
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/TextLayout2007 — THIS YEAR’S PAGE

Please help out by adding information. This is your chance to put all issues important to you onto the agenda or to volunteer to present a session paper or moderate a discussion.

I am also very pleased to announce that the Linux Foundation (LF) is graciously sponsoring this event by providing us with a limited amount of travel funds for select individuals who really need it. Anyone interested in applying for travel sponsorship should apply here:

http://www.linux-foundation.org/travel/

Be sure to specify “aKademy” and note that you are going to attend the *Text Layout Summit*.

To register for aKademy: http://www.kde.org.uk/akademy/registration.php

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John Walicki

John Walicki is the IBM Open Client Architect and leads the internal deployment and enterprise integration of Linux clients within IBM. John is currently The Linux Foundation's Desktop Linux Workgroup chairman.